Fated, by Nosaj Thing

Fated

by Nosaj Thing

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Chip Vaughn Been a huge fan of NT since I first heard '2222' from Drift and Fated is by far some his best work. Great stuff from one of the pioneers of futurebeats music! Favorite track: Medic.

dboobie Really like the vibe on this album, chill, lay back and let your ears enjoy this, no stress when this is playing. Favorite track: Don't Mind Me feat. Whoarei.

Andrew Jervis Pure headphone delight. Favorite track: Don't Mind Me feat. Whoarei.

driftingGhosts one of my favorite albums of 2015 Favorite track: Don't Mind Me feat. Whoarei.

Abigail Neon This is a great album. All the songs were done beautifully in a strange, spooky ambient vibe which I really love. I only wished each song were a bit longer. I purchased the vinyl directly to add to my collection. Favorite track: Cold Stares feat. Chance The Rapper.

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1.	Sci 02:22	buy track
2.	Don't Mind Me feat. Whoarei 03:22	buy track
3.	Realize 01:34	buy track
4.	Varius 01:32	buy track
5.	Cold Stares feat. Chance The Rapper 02:52	buy track
6.	Watch 02:17	buy track
7.	UV3 01:35	buy track
8.	Let You 02:54	buy track
9.	Moon 01:05	buy track
10.	Erase 01:57	buy track
11.	Medic 01:58	buy track
12.	A 02:00	buy track
13.	Phase IV 02:48	buy track
14.	Light #5 02:51	buy track
15.	2k 02:32	buy track

about

We seek the new because of the numbness. If you listen to enough music, you’re familiar with the feeling. Sounds get recycled so often that they can seem like geometric configurations organized via Wav files. Trends get time-stamped faster than a triplicate trap hi-hat.

The most rare records emerge outside of any clearly delineated orbit. They’re solitary visions that supply their own rhythm and arsenal. Music that reverberates through heart, brain, and spine. This is Nosaj Thing’s third album, Fated.

“I just tried to escape really, and escape even what’s going on in the music world,” says Nosaj Thing, the LA producer born Jason Chung. “It just felt so suffocating in a way. I just wanted to do my own thing.”

It’s been six years since Nosaj Thing emerged among the vanguard of Low End Theory-affiliated producers. His debut Drift created 31st century tones and chromatic textures so sleek that they inspired innumerable Soundcloud imitators.

None could match its moody iridescence, faded sadness and funky swing. Bach collided with Boards of Canada. Spaceships came equipped with rear view mirrors and a booming system bumping G-Funk and warped soul. Pitchfork called it “gorgeously haunted.” Resident Advisor said it “exists in its own dimension and feeds off its own exhaust: full of alien choirs, conquered computers, and refracting stained-glass light.”

Fated exists in this same alternate dimension, but further out. If comparisons previously existed with other artists within the LA beat scene, Nosaj has rendered them baseless. His second album on Innovative Leisure (after 2013’s Home) seeks celestial escape through streamlining.

“The last record took out so much of me. I just wanted to go back to simplifying and overthinking so much. It was a battle,” Nosaj says. “The soul of a song, the essence of a song—whatever you want to call it—should be simple.”

By stripping away all but what’s really necessary, the sounds harness an unusual directness. Guest appearances are rare, save for vocals from Whoarei on “Don’t Mind Me,” and Chicago rap phenomenon, Chance the Rapper. The latter gravely spits on “Cold Stares,” invoking terminal fevers, empty beds, devil’s whispers, and insomniac fears.

If comparisons crop up, Fated has most in common with records like Burial’s Untrue or Dilla’s Donuts. Requiems that canvass the shadowy hinterlands between life and death, darkness and light, loneliness and love. Eternal themes re-imagined in ingenious fashion.

“The album name came from all these coincidences that just kept on happening to me,” Nosaj says. “Specific interaction with specific people in unexpected places. A perpetual feeling of déjà vu.”

It’s foundation rests on that intangible thing that some call fate or primordial feeling. Numbness receding, old emotions flooding back, un-tampered visions. Fated is what you can’t explain, so it’s best to just listen.

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released May 5, 2015

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No Mind

Oct 2020
For The Light

Aug 2020
U G (Les Sins Remix)

Feb 2018
Parallels

Sep 2017
NO REALITY

Apr 2016
Fated

May 2015
Home

Jan 2013
Drift Remixed

Nov 2010
Drift

Jun 2009

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