NastyNasty is a staple of San Francisco's vibrant music scene and a prominent member of the Bay Area's latest all-star musical team; Frite Nite (also home to the likes of Eprom, Salva and B. Bravo) His implacable sound is the result of a melting pot of influences that includes southern rap, IDM, turf, dubstep and god knows what else. NastyNasty's music is essentially an unpredictable grab bag that always surprises and never disappoints. ‘The Reef’, on Frite Nite, is ultra-compressed, bit-crushed mayhem, like skweee put through a concrete mixer. Meanwhile, his Planet Mu debut EP ‘No Names’ offers dancefloor friendly dubstep re-imagined in unique fashion with swathes of harsh frequencies and terrorizing bass. This new EP for Rwina takes NastyNasty's meticulous sonic aesthetic to new levels of awe. The EP opens with ‘Sweaty Bodies’, coming in at a breakneck 55 bpm! The song twists and churns with washed out vocal chops juxtaposed atop thudding drums. Despite resting on a foundation of rather perverse bass sounds, the song reveals a soft underbelly of sweeping synths and vocal trickery. With ‘Jelly’, the Bay Area maestro delivers retro futurism in a hip hop format, flexing analogue synth manipulation, cantankerous drum patterns and sub-bass worthy of a DMZ dance to make the whole sound like piloting a spacecraft full of Flash Gordon baddies, with a 360 degree turn drop that'll shred the space time continuum. ‘Hydra’ starts with atmospheric pads that quickly dissolve into a lone arpeggio before dropping full swing into heavy duty bass. The track journeys through meticulous synth work and ends up changing tempo in a wash of pads and disembodied leads. Finally, ‘Legionnaire’, a trip of sonic exploration that rises up to the harrowing heights of synthesis and plunges down to the swamp-feeding lows of bass trickery. The ‘Poison Flavored’ EP is the sound of hip hop from the future far ahead : a melting pot of influences and experimentation that sends dancefloors wild. Originally released November 2011. Orange and yellow swirled vinyl. A1. Sweaty Bodies A2. Jelly B1. Hydra B2. Legionnaire