![]() How did that collaboration with HudMo come about, and did you intend to make the sort of weird pop banger that it turned out to be? You’re finding out that someone is like you in a lot of ways, in their taste and also in more abstract ways. ![]() My favorite part about it isn’t even necessarily the music that gets made, it’s the time I get to spend with someone talking about stuff that we have in common. ![]() ![]() It’s kind of the same with collaborating in the studio. If it’s a friend, it feels more like we’re playing music together, just two or three people showing each other tracks. With b2b sets, I like bouncing off people’s energy. So he bought the mixer, and said, “Now will you work with me?” But there was this mixer that I have, that I mixed everything on in this one weird way, and I’d use it as an excuse – that I didn’t want to work with anyone else. It was always a hard “no” if anyone ever asked. What role does collaboration play in your music?Īctually, I was really against collaborating until I started working with DJ ADHD. But I think it’s also detrimental in the sense that, I really like working in my studio, being alone for a whole month at a time, going really deep on making weird tracks and sound design, and I can’t do that on tour. The other thing I’ve started to do is to write sketches on planes, which I’ve never done in the past. I’ve lost count of how many tracks we’ve made together this year, but it’s a lot. When I’m on tour in Europe, my main base is usually London, where I stay with DJ ADHD and Chloé Robinson. The main way of being able to stay prolific on tour is collaborating. How do you balance travel with creativity? After all, as Nair rightly notes, “there’s always a path going from club music to pop music”.Ĭrack: You’ve toured more than ever in 2023 and still stayed prolific as a producer. His DJing style – bombastic and unexpected – refuses to draw boundaries, and Nair himself is as earnest in remixing fellow 2023 protagonist Caroline Polachek’s Bunny Is a Rider as he is hooking up with his teenage blog house inspiration Crookers. Involved in DIY and punk since his teens, Nair has observed and embraced a multitude of scenes and sounds since EDM blew up in the US over a decade ago. If you missed the gloriously fizzy title track with Tayla Parx in the rave, then perhaps Nair’s tongue-in-cheek Can’t Wait for Studio Barnhus got lodged in your head – its gurgling, Auto-tuned “ I cannot wait to get fucked up with you” hook primed for the wonkiest of sunsets. Instead, he affirmed his adventurous versatility by establishing new friendships and collaborations, including Set the Roof, a breathless mini-album made with the invitation of his personal hero-turned-friend, Hudson Mohawke. If 2023 had one perhaps exhausting lesson to offer artists, it was the importance of staying visible.īuilding on the foundations of a series of powerful club records for diverse labels – OG-equivelant dubstep for Dirtybird, fucked up breaks for Scruffed – the Tennessee born, Atlanta-based producer and DJ Nikki Nair achieved just that, and did so with zero associated bullshit. This is Signing Off, our year-end series with the artists who defined 2023
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