TNGHT

TNGHT is a musical duo consisting of producer/DJs Hudson Mohawke (Scotland) and Lunice (Canada).

Biography

Hudson Mohawke (Ross Birchard) and Lunice (Lunice Fermin Pierre II) originally met in 2008, during the first LuckyMe Records tour of North America, when Mohawke performed at the Pop Montreal festival and Lunice played support.

Following a successful performance headlining Warp Records' 2012 SXSW showcase, TNGHT officially debuted with the TNGHT EP, released via Warp X LuckyMe on July 23, 2012.

TNGHT has since performed at multiple venues internationally, including The Opera House, the Coachella music festival and Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, which featured an appearance by rapper/producer Kanye West during a remix of West's "Cold".

In 2012, TNGHT produced "Shake Weight" from Duality by Captain Murphy (rap project of Flying Lotus).

In 2013, TNGHT co-produced Kanye West's song "Blood on the Leaves" from his critically acclaimed album Yeezus. The song samples TNGHT's track "R U Ready."

TNGHT (EP)

TNGHT is the self-titled debut extended play of TNGHT, released on the Warp label. The duo consists of producers Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, which the former had decided to produce much simpler music instead of weird tracks that were "all over the place" like he did before. Recorded in a London studio in a couple of nights, TNGHT was released on July 23, 2012 to critical acclaim. Some reviewers called it a rare collaboration in that the two producers actually showed what was great about their very different styles, while some felt the duo that a lot more potential to display than what was present on the EP. It landed on numerous year-end lists of publications including Pitchfork Media, a webzine where Larry Fitzmaurice awarded the EP the label of "Best New Music" in his review. It was also on the American Billboard charts, debuting at number 180 on the Billboard 200.

Background

Lunice and Hudson Mohawke first met each other in 2008, when the former booked Mohawke to perform at one of his Turbo Crunk night parties. After a few years of the two focusing on their respective solo careers, Lunice decided he should produce much simpler music instead of being "all over the place, trying to push how weird I could get, but the more I continued, the more I wanted to compress and refine my style to a point of, like, "What if I just made a song out of one snare?" It's natural: After you've been experimenting, you calm down." After hearing Mohawke's remix of Gucci Mane's "Party Animal", which Mohawke had started doing "really simple, huge, stabbing productions" at this point, Lunice met him to show him new material he had been working on, thus the two formed TNGHT.