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Biography
Nick Koenig, better known by his stage name Hot Sugar, is an American record producer based in New York City. He is the owner of the Noise Collector record label. His music has been used in Broad City. He has collaborated with Antwon, Lakutis, Heems, Big Baby Gandhi, and Chippy Nonstop, among others.
Career
In 2011, Hot Sugar produced The Roots' song "Sleep", which was included in their Undun album. He released the Made Man EP in 2013. In that year, he produced Kitty's song "Barbie Jeep". In 2015, his debut studio album, God's Hand, was released on Break World Records. He starred in Adam Bhala Lough's Hot Sugar's Cold World, which received an honorable mention at the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Style and influences
According to Complex, Hot Sugar's music is called "associative music, where he pulls in a ton of sounds from instruments, found sounds, and non-traditional places to sample them into his own melodies." He has been perfecting the technique since the age of 13. In a 2015 interview with NPR, he described associative music as "try[ing] to capture sounds the same way a photographer would capture an image: If something looks poetic, I'll record it".
Discography
Studio albums
- God's Hand (2015)
Compilation albums
- Solid Steel Mix (2012)
- Seductive Nightmares 1 (2013)
- Seductive Nightmares 2 (2014)
- Seductive Nightmares 3 (2016)
EPs
- Muscle Milk (2011)
- Moon Money (2012)
- Midi Murder (2013)
- Made Man (2013)
Singles
- "Your Nails Look So Pretty" b/w "The Forest Nymph That Lives Behind the School" (2014)
Productions
- The Roots - "Sleep" from Undun (2011)
- Big Baby Gandhi - "Get $$$", "Hi It's Me, Baby", "Been a Villain", and "Lurkin" from No1 2 Look Up 2 (2012)
- Louis Logic - "Hot Shit" (2012)
- Kitty - "Ay Shawty 3.0" from D.A.I.S.Y. Rage (2013)
- Kitty - "Barbie Jeep" (2013)
- Deniro Farrar - "High Tide" (2013)
- Weekend Money - "Trapper Keeper" and "Nostrand" from Freddie Merkury (2014)
- Lakutis - "Body Scream" from Three Seashells (2014)
- Lucki Eck$ - "All Senses" (2014)
- DVS - "You Goddamn Right" from DVTV (2015)
Filmography
- Hot Sugar's Cold World (2015)