- Zany cross-genre club music from two of dance music's most distinctive voices.
- Hudson Mohawke and Nikki Nair's Set The Roof is the sort of old-guard-new-star collaboration that brings out the best in two generations. The Scottish wonky innovator (and rap producer) and US genre-hopper share a high-energy vernacular and distinct thumbprint when it comes to sound design, so it makes sense for their paths to cross this way.
On their three-track EP, Nair's comparatively barebones style files down the euphoria that made HudMo's last album, Cry Sugar, a delightfully messy Buckaroo ride, and it's all the better for it. HudMo's style gets just enough of a lassoing to create buff garage house smackers with a French touch flavouring. The title track begins as a 2-step bop with chatty chipmunk vocals, but once Tayla Parx's vocals hit the titular line, they loop into an unexpected key change before being pulled under by bass warps that growl like a boombox scraping across the floor—you can feel Nair's touch in all the rapid changes.
The French sound begins to take hold as the EP goes on. "Demuro" sounds like Alan Braxe doing donuts in a tuned-up Skyline GT-R, while "More Recently" has the sort of raw, bedroom producer aesthetic that defined records like Homework and 1999. HudMo and Nair strategically scatter it with squeaky horns, spindly synths and slack drum rolls, masking their precision chaos with a rough and ready feel.
Tracklist01. Set The Roof feat. Tayla Parx
02. More Recently
03. Demuro