Hot Sugar (musician)
| Hot Sugar | |
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| Birth name | Nick Koenig |
| Origin | New York City, United States |
| Genres | Electronic, hip hop, associative music |
| Occupation(s) | Producer |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Labels | Break World Records, Ninja Tune, Noise Collector |
| Associated acts | Antwon, Big Baby Gandhi, Heems, Kitty, Kool A.D., Lakutis, Weekend Money |
| Website | hotsugar |
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.
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. In 2017, he released an album, The Melody of Dust.
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".
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