TNGHT (EP)
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| EP by TNGHT | |
| Released | July 23, 2012 |
| Recorded | Oxford Street, London |
| Length | 15:49 |
| Label | Warp |
| Producer | Lunice, Hudson Mohawke |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| Allmusic |   |
| Beats per Minute | 86% |
| Consequence of Sound | |
| Fact | 3.5/5 |
| NME | 9/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.5/10 |
| Popmatters |   |
| Resident Advisor | 4/5 |
| Spin | 8/10 |
| XLR8R | 6/10 |
TNGHT is the self-titled debut extended play of TNGHT, released on the Warp label. The duo consists of producers Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, after the latter had decided to produce much simpler music instead of weird tracks that were "all over the place". 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.
Lunice and Hudson Mohawke first met each other in 2008, when the former asked the latter to perform at a show for his Turbo Crunk crew. After a small number of 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", in which Mohawke had started doing "really simple, huge, stabbing productions", Lunice met him to show him new material he had been working on, and the two formed TNGHT.
The duo recorded their self-titled extended play in a few days at a very small studio outside of Oxford Street, London, with initially no plans for release. Mohawke described the project as "a proper click", unlike previous collaborations he had done with which he was dissatisfied because it felt "like you're compromising something of yourself in it". In 2012, the duo stated that the instrumentals on the EP were planned to include rappers: "Pretty much all the tracks on the EP are placed with MCs; most of them are gonna have MCs on them at some point, though we can't talk about who those people are at the moment".
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