TNGHT

Talk about a teaser. Rather than follow the all-too-brief speaker-clobbering beats of last summer’s *Satin Panthers* EP with a proper full-length, Hudson Mohawke has taken a detour with the equally promising EP transmissions of *TNGHT*, by his duo of the same name. A sample-flinging standoff between the groove-riding Glaswegian and Montreal’s own rising bass cadet Lunice, it’s off to the races as soon as the snake-charmer shudder and shake of “Top Floor” slips into a puddle of liquefied low-end lashings and manic melodies. From that point on, *TNGHT* is a hands-in-the-air moment waiting to happen, whether it’s triggered by bleach-stomping breaks and breathless cheers (“Goooo”), bubble gun blasts and baby-dropping Aaliyah allusions (“Bugg’n”), or apocalyptic calliopes made from compressed chorus lines (“Easy Easy”). It’s controlled chaos at its best, really, and quite the palette cleanser for whatever Mohawke has on deck next.

On their debut EP, the production duo of Lunice Fermin Pierre II (Lunice) and Ross Birchard (Hudson Mohawke) put together 16 minutes of the most brazen, positively huge beats this year.

Hudson Mohawke and Lunice knock up a constant carousel of hip-hop textures and rhythms designed to make the mainstream rap world sit up and take notice.

TNGHT - TNGHT review: Back alley cinematics and purple smoke ballin' from a dream production duo