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22 July 2012
"TNGHT" is the self-titled debut EP of the duo TNGHT, the collaboration of producers Hudson Mohawke and Lunice. Recorded in a London studio in a couple of nights, it was released on the labels Warp and LuckyMe on July 23, 2012.
TNGHT received critical acclaim. It landed on numerous year-end lists of publications including Pitchfork Media. It was also on the American Billboard charts, debuting at number 180 on the Billboard 200.
Lunice and Hudson Mohawke first met each other in 2008, when the former asked the latter to perform at a show for his Turbo Crunk crew. After a small number of years of the two focusing on their respective solo careers, Lunice decided he should produce much simpler music instead of being "all over the place, trying to push how weird I could get, but the more I continued, the more I wanted to compress and refine my style to a point of, like, 'What if I just made a song out of one snare?' It's natural: After you've been experimenting, you calm down". After hearing Mohawke's remix of Gucci Mane's "Party Animal", in which Mohawke had started doing "really simple, huge, stabbing productions", Lunice met him to show him new material he had been working on, and the two formed TNGHT.
The duo recorded their self-titled extended play in a few days at a very small studio outside of Oxford Street, London, with initially no plans for release. Mohawke described the project as "a proper click", unlike previous collaborations he had done with which he was dissatisfied because it felt "like you're compromising something of yourself in it". In 2012, the duo stated that the instrumentals on the EP were planned to include rappers: "Pretty much all the tracks on the EP are placed with MCs; most of them are gonna have MCs on them at some point, though we can't talk about who those people are at the moment".
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