Nerve is a Hong Kong based multidisciplinary artist whose practice mines the boundaries between contemporary music, sound art, multimedia theatre and underground subcultures. With a background in classical composition and 90s rave culture, he explores the extreme sound experience by mixing electroacoustic, beat, bass, fx and samples into a new form of free improvisation performance.
Fight or flight are the options during a global pandemic. Music can be relief, a space to forget, or it can be a mirror, a space to confront. Nerve gives us permission to dive in headlong. Told through the vernacular of bass and noise, this mix embodies 2020 in sound and sentiment. The opposite of escape. A pummeling reflection of the present and a foretelling of an unforeseen chaotic future. In this dystopian world, tracks dissolve into swift and relentless cuts, and just when it begins to feel overwhelming, you’re hit even harder with industrial cacophony and distant basement dance floor reverberations. The release is nothing short of cathartic; sometimes pain feels good too.
Tracklist:
Çois Agver - AABBUUSSOO
AGF - abundANTIA EP {soundcloud cut}
AN System - Moss Charger
lujiachi - Diamond Palace
Kelvin T - 13Eight
Thoom - It's Going to Be Ablaze
Fatshaudi - 憎しみからは何も生まれない
TRNGS - REPRESENTATION OF PHYSICAL
emamouse - Birdbathing
玉名ラーメン - awai
マヱカドコウヂ - ビッキー・ホリディの唄 (Vicky Holiday no Uta)
MARTYYNA - Midnight Guards
Klein - Arese
FRKTL - دَفْق (Crash Blossoms)
Dasychira - xDream (Charity 等一会 Vocal Edit)
Rosaceae - Empty House
Evitceles - Exhausted Lust
julek ploski - ja tata
22 БОСС КОКОС - SHED THOSE TEARS
Himera - It's U ft. Petal Supply (Pearl Version)CST: Where are you from and where do you live now?
N: Born and living in Hong Kong.
CST: Introvert or extrovert?
N: 90% introvert
CST: Whats your sign?
N: Pisces
CST: What is your favorite record shop?
N: OOR in Zurich. They have the most interesting way to categorize music genres in the world.
CST: What is your morning ritual?
N: Recalling dreams
CST: What is your dream lineup for a party and what would you name this party?
N: Autechre, Kode9, Pain Jerk and Pan Daijing. The party name is Kill the Rave.
CST: What parties/underground spaces did you go to when you first started partying?
N: In the old days I mainly played at places like XXX, Bassment, Sammy Kitchen, and many random DIY parties at Kwun Tong outdoor areas or private units at factories.
CST: What was the first record you ever bought?
N: Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space [cassette version]
CST: Where was the first party you ever went to?
N: It was an illegal rave organized by the Pleasure Force in Toronto 1992. I got a card with a phone number from a record shop and received an address via hotline on the day. It was a meeting point in downtown, and there are yellow school buses for transportation between the meeting point and the warehouse.
CST: What are you reading right now?
N: Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy
CST: What are your other interests besides djing?
N: Meditation, walking without a goal, mute the sound and add other music to the screen.
CST: Biggest vice?
N: Smartphone. I can't imagine I will use it forever.
CST: Happiest moment?
N: When I was playing my first ever note on piano. I was 10 years old at that time.
CST: Favorite part of the day?
N: 6am
CST: Do you collect anything else aside from records?
N: I try not to collect anything these days. I have some instruments and recording gears tho.
CST: Where is your favorite place to dance?
N: Any good rave
