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Kenyan artist @Nabalayo-nabalayo and @NKC join forces for a new EP on Even The Strong. Hear the chiming Changanya and UK funky-infused Afrohouse roller ‘Mwizi I’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-nabalayo-nkc-mwizi-i

Mwizi

Premiere: Nabalayo & NKC ‘Mwizi I’

ETS-MWIZI
02/04/21
Even The Strong

Mwizi is a collaboration between Nabalayo – an artist, producer and vocalist from Nairobi, Kenya – and Even The Strong label founder NKC. The release combines Nabalayo’s arresting vocal harmonies and flowing melodies, which draw influence from Kenyan folk music, as well as Bjork, Kelela and Tiwa Savage, with NKC’s broken rhythms, choppy sampling and pulp FX.

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Mwizi II (Dub)

Nabalayo x NKC - Mwizi II

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Artwork by Sam Clarke
Mastered by Henrik Haraldsen Sveen

Driver's High

NKC - Nerve Plant

Losing your mind in the brainforest at night. Scratching out ancient signs in the undergrowth. Hitting panic mode in an old railway tunnel. Running topless through the trees with camo-dirt smeared on your face. This is what it sounds like.

Beams

NKC - Bootlicker

NKC - Strak

London’s @NKC debuts on @Tzusing’s @seacucumberlabel with an EP inspired by trip-hop and alt-rock club edits. Hear the ferocious title track, a collab with @djdoublem94, now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-nkc-beams

Premiere: NKC & MM ‘Beams’

NKC unleashes an unrelenting and percussive DJ tool on Tzusing's fledging Sea Cucumber label.

'BEAMS' is out now on Sea Cucumber.

Buy: bit.ly/2Xh56PH

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@seacucumberlabel

Premiere: NKC - Reticular Beats [Sea Cucumber]

Pre-order: https://eventhestrong.bandcamp.com/album/yeyeyeye

Both based in Bristol, @djpolo-uk and @nkc have held down a joint show on the city’s newly inaugurated station SWU FM since November 2020. The show found the sweet spot between their sounds, with NKC’s penchant for gritty, mechanoid percussion meshing with DJ Polo’s love for the more soulful, technicolour side of drum-focused club music.

With venues finally reopening in the summer, Polo and NKC launched their clubnight SteamRooms at the Crofters Rights in Bristol in September. The party spotlights both established and upcoming artists pushing the syncopated bounce forwards in UK dance music, featuring Scratchclart and AYAYA for the first instalment.

ETS-YEYEYEYE came about through this ongoing collaboration. The tracks take hybrid influence from the genres and subgenres that DJ Polo and NKC spin on their radio show and at SteamRooms – UK funky, hard drum, tribal house, gqom, amapiano – without slotting straightforwardly into any of them. Both are focused on maximum dancefloor impact: concrete percussion linked up with dramatic builds and wild sound design. ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah’ became the collab mantra, progressively abbreviated and sped up to ‘yeyeyeye’ as they hit on more unruly ideas.

More exclusive music

Premiere: DJ Polo X NKC 'Yeyeyeye'

Yeyeyeye

EXCLUSIVE: DJ Polo & NKC - Hammerhead

@janiceiche and @NKC link up on @EvenTheStrong with six cuts of cosmic UK funky and amapiano-inspired club music. Hear ‘Afterlife’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-janice-iche-x-nkc-afterlife

Afterlife

Premiere: Janice Iche x NKC ‘Afterlife’

Ghost Mode is the instrumental VIP of Janice Iche x NKC - Afterlife, from How You Flow.

How You Flow is a collaborative EP between Janice Iche – an artist, DJ, and vocalist based in Mombasa, Kenya – and NKC – Bristol, UK. The project started out in the DMs, developed through WhatsApp calls and emails in the latter half of 2021, and ended up as an extended release – featuring three original collabs and three instrumental re-versions by NKC with alternate track names.

Ghost Mode

NKC drops a fresh solo EP that finds the balance between grimey overdriven basslines and grown ‘n sexy percussion rhythms; four funky house grooves drawing on amapiano, gqom, and UK funky influences.

Produced & Mixed by NKC
Mastered by Lurka

Artwork by Rory King

Menace

NKC - Make Nice

3024-FYE3

Buy on Bandcamp

A2 NKC - Honest Drums (3024-FYE3)

NKC - Posh Buzz
ETS005
Release date: 05/07/2019

01. Posh Buzz
02. Hissing

NKC follows up his April release on Martyn’s 3024 label – ‘Honest Drums’ on the FYE mini compilation series – with a hard hitting two track single: Posh Buzz (ETS005).

The title track – named after the way his friend described MDMA when they were teenagers – is hard drum meets tech house: a hypnotic spin-cycle layering warped carnival hits atop choppy cymbals. For the B-side, NKC finally unleashes Hissing – a dramatic drum tool featuring warehouse-sized claps and punishing kick stabs. Use it wisely.

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Artwork: 3000000000am
Mastering: Jeremy Cox

NKC - Posh Buzz

Even The Strong label head @NKC follows up a bangin' feature on Martyn's recent 3024 mini comp with a tough two-track single.

Title 'Posh Buzz' (aka what NKC's mate used to call MDMA when they were teens), our top tip has to be B-side 'Hissing'. As the title suggests, it's a cold, menacing, metallic number complete with colossal claps and NKC's now fabled hard drum signature.

The new release is the sixth to land on the label. Former releases come from ETS party mainstays and fellow syncopated drum aficionados such as MM and DJ JM.

ETS will release 'Posh Buzz' on July 5. Pre-order below.

Pre-order: https://eventhestrong.bandcamp.com/album/posh-buzz

Premiere: NKC 'Hissing'

NKC - A To Zdz

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Putivuelta es un colectivo de Bogotá integral al under en el capital. Nuestra segunda compilación, la Fundación Internacional de Fiesterxs, es una espiral percusiva de mutaciones del club basadas en variantes locales del tribal house, conocida como Guaracha, Aleteo y Zapateo. La compilación es una exploración de las experimentaciones modernas en la música de club tribal emergente, con un lineup de artistxs internacionales representadxs por Colombia, México, Argentina, Uruguay,  los Países Bajos, el Reino Unido y los Estados Unidos. La compilación presenta tres Guaracherxs: Andre E. Hoyos (Medellín), Yeison Martin (Bogotá), Ed Reyes (Estado de México), además de productores de música de club latine basadxs ​​en Internet que han creado sus propias interpretaciones de Guaracha.

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Putivuelta is Bogotá based collective integral to the Colombian capitals underground. Our second compilation Fundación Internacional de Fiesteros is a percussion driven spiral of club mutations firmly rooted in local variants of tribal house known as Guaracha, Aleteo, and Zapateo. The compilation is an exploration of modern experimentations in emerging tribal club music, with a lineup of international artists represented by Colombia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.. The compilation features three Guaracheros - Andre E. Hoyos (Medellin), Yeison Martin (Bogotá), Ed Reyes (Estado de Mexico) in addition to internet based club music producers who have created their own interpretations of Guaracha.

NKC - Tyrannoskank

NKC alongside Bakongo!

Track taken from the forthcoming LV VA compilation, and also available on 12" >> strictly vinyl for now, and also available digitally when the full compilation lands.

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lavalavarecords.bandcamp.com

NKC x Bakongo - Teardown

Production: @nkc
Artwork: Tom Handy
Distribution: @sprktchn

The Stolen Collection Vol. 2

Radio Jacker

NKC - Radio Jacker

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