Nadī and Otus have collaborated on their new EP, ‘Less Talk / More Talk’, set to be released on February 1st under the label Love In The Endz. Nadī and Otus met in 2020 during a digital party hosted by Lawrence Hart, where they began sharing demos. After a year of testing the EP on dancefloors across locations such as Glastonbury Festival, they created their debut EP featuring two drum and bass tracks with cultural influences and variations of liquidity. The lead single ‘Less Talk’ features heavy drums while B-side ‘More Talk’ has scatterings of drumbeats, paying homage to ethnic vocal compositions from Bangladesh.
The pair explained that they wanted to blend their influences from the UK and Bangladesh and create a club-ready EP that celebrated Bangladeshi folk music, footwork and breaks, Carnatic vocals, and pounding 808s. The EP dabbles in elements of footwork and breaks while paying tribute to the 1956 Bengali Language Movement and the struggle for language acceptance. Nadī and Otus strictly used vocals from the ethnic compositions as their starting point, which turned out to be the central focus of both tracks.
According to Nadī, “I brought in a Bengali folk vocal sample, and for this EP, that ended up being the main focal point for both tracks.” However, the vocals’ ethereal quality and rhythm stood out compared to western music, which added an extra layer to the tracks. Otus added: “Between both of us, we wanted to blend our influences from the UK and Bangladesh and create a club-ready EP that showed this.”
The ‘Less Talk / More Talk’ EP by Nadī and Otus will be released on February 1st, and you can preview it here
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