P042 – DJ NIGGA FOX – Live Nigginha Fox

Cassette/Digital
Written and produced by DJ Nigga Fox;
Mastered by Tó Pinheiro da Silva, Artwork by Márcio Matos;
Released April, 2021.

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PRESS RELEASE

Enough months now for life to feel different. Some previous patterns are collapsing, while people are clinging to others. Live gigs were all but terminated but Nigga Fox was feeling countercyclical. By Summer 2020 he began morphing his set into a nonstop organic entity rather independent from the actual existence of a dancefloor. He actually performed it live on two most rare occasions in Lisbon before year’s end – an outdoor Príncipe showcase at the garden of Galeria Quadrum and an evening show at Lux Frágil. His trademark mid-track twists are now given extra space and you can easily listen to these 34 minutes as one track “in the Nigga Fox style” or as a live workout. Sounds bounce around slowly but surely, a spinal groove stretches throughout the whole length, beatless and also beat-wise. It’s 2021, post-future, and there’s pleasure to be had.

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Following from his crackshot debut album ‘Cartas Na Manga’ (2019), and going on in the nutty vein of his standout 2017 session ’15 Barras’ – one of the most inventive producers in all of electronic music here opens new paths into a sort of Angolan-Portuguese rhythmic psychedelia that simply sounds like nothing else. OK, it may be compatible with strains of Amapiano and rootsy US deep house, but there’s an effortless bendiness and irresistible lilt to the styles on ‘Live Nigginha Fox’ that are unique to the hyperlocal, Lisbon-based scenius that he’s been instrumental in building and expanding for the past decade.

Switching on with a gulf stream of breezy G-funk leads and grubbing subs, the groove takes hold and does not let go for over half an hour, furling syncopated breaks with scudding stabs and dub chords in a lissom parry that slinks between the beats in a way that recalls a melted parallel to South African Amapiano and the furthest reaches of Ron Trent’s sumptuous, rhythm-lead sound designs. Most crucially, there’s no tricks or stunts, just a mean sense of concentrated, heads-down and eyes-shut minimalism for the dancers to properly get into.
Boomkat, April 2021

“Live Nigginha Fox” assoberba como experiência vinda de um dos músicos mais irrequietos do catálogo da Príncipe – vale a pena lembrar que também foi dele que veio “15 Barras” -, tanto dentro como fora de estúdio, ou seja, na pista. Num ano de quase-ausência das cabines, esta cassete tem 35 minutos de algo que DJ Nigga Fox tem experimentado ao longo dos últimos 2/3 anos, levar a sua música para um formato “ao vivo”, desapegado do formato DJ e livre na conjetura live set. “Live Nigginha Fox” ouve-se como um espaço de criação activa, orgânico e com uma narrativa fluente. Não é como se estivéssemos lá, mas a liberdade rompante que se sente ao longo da cassete é uma porta de entrada para a cabeça de um dos produtores mais criativos da actualidade.
Flur, April 2021

Os padrões colapsantes dos ritmos de Nigga Fox continuam tão fascinantes como sempre e escutá-los assim, de forma concentrada, sem o abandono físico a que uma pista convida, equivale a ver um jogo clássico de Asteroids, com peças que se vão cruzando no espaço sónico antes de coliderem e se fragmentarem noutros elementos, numa hipnótica e constantemente renovada aventura de polirritmias. Uma suite electrónica para o clube que se abre na nossa cabeça quando se carrega no play. Pesado. Fundo. E viciante.
Rimas e Batidas, April 2021

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