Nosaj Thing [Unsigned / iTunes]
Jason Chung aka Nosaj Thing has been catching a lot of peoples attention lately. The reason is obvious. People are starved for talented electronic musicians like this. When I first listened to Jason’s promo mixtape [recorded for dublab], my brain milk was leaking all over the desk …it was disgusting. Which brings me to an interesting question – at what point do words become completely ambiguous? The other day someone told me “yo, those shoes are rude!” and I wasn’t sure if this was a good or bad thing.
Ok! Sorry about the attention deficit influenced random tangent – listen to the mix: Nosaj Thing Live On Dublab
After I cleaned up the brain-mess, I hunted down his EP, which you can buy at Turntable Lab, iTunes and through Paypal. The release sounds like a combination of Eliot Lipp, Daedelus, edIT, Ooah, Lorn & Flying Lotus, but still has a lot of its own unique character and style to it. As I regard this as one of those pieces of art that are just an amazing journey front to back, it has been difficult for me to pick out single tracks as being my favourites. -sigh-
This is the part where I do anyways:
Nosaj Thing – Heart Entire
Nosaj Thing – Distro
In the process of searching for that EP I discovered that he’s dropped a slew of remixes, some of which have even been contest winners! Surprised? Unlikely.
Daedelus-It’s Madness (Nosaj Thing Remix)
Nalepa – Flatlands (Nosaj Thing Remix)
Health-Tabloid Sores (Nosaj Thing Remix)
Plastic Little-More Tongue Less Teeth ft. MF Doom (Nosaj Thing Remix)
Scarub from Living Ledgends (?)
Eliot Lipp (?)
Jason is planning on dropping a split 7″ with Lorn, as well as a full length LP sometime in mid 2008! Word is he’s been working pretty damn hard to get it all polished and finished up. I’m not sure who to be more excited about on that 7″ to be totally honest – Lorn and Nosaj Thing are both top notch electronic music producers.
Jason is yet to be signed to a lable, which kinda blows my mind! Hefty? Alphapup? Glitch Mob Unlimited? Seriously what are you guys waiting for? This guy is Glitch-Hop’s best kept secret!
I also recommend checking out his friend Kawata, and the Mixtape. It reminded me how much i love Ratatat. If you haven’t heard their Remixes Vol. 2 yet you really should cop that shit also.


thanks for the heads up man, gonna check this out as soon as my roomate wakes up
Comment by atri — February 13, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
sorry for a double comment, but i figure i might as well send you a link to some stuff were doing down here in tampa. http://www.zshare.net/audio/54549374725613/ its a 45 minute hip hop dnb mashup with plenty of glitchy goodness in there
Comment by atri — February 13, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
Nosaj just rocked a show in Montreal on the weekend. He was UNBELIEVABLE! I cannot believe that this dude is not signed yet.
He is the HOTTEST thing in the whole glitch.hop scene. THE HOTTEST.
I have never seen MTL’ers dance so hard as they did to his set.
Comment by MTL RPRZNT — February 18, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
Nosaj = superb. He’s played with Eliot Lipp a bit ago and has been a long time favorite. Someone tell him he should play with Eliot again!
Comment by Annabel — March 11, 2008 @ 2:49 pm