{"id":10054,"date":"2015-08-24T19:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2015-08-24T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:51:19","slug":"hot-sugar-gods-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2015\/08\/24\/hot-sugar-gods-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Sugar :: God\u2019s Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u2018God\u2019s hand\u2019 is something that, theoretically, touches us all, which is what New York-based producer Nick Koenig\u2014better known as Hot Sugar\u2014intends to do with his first album, a wholly unique instrumental journey through everyday life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Koenig makes associative music, using a production technique that involves recording the seemingly mundane sounds and noises encountered every day and using them to create instruments (a baby crying becomes a synth, bones hitting together become a drum), turning these banal sounds into music. This technique, according to Koenig\u2019s AssociativeMusic.Com webpage, aims to elicit a Pavlovian reaction from the listener, positing that the emotional connection we have to sounds exists even after they have been extensively manipulated. Upon listening to the LP, this seems to ring true. Koenig\u2019s compositions are truly mesmerizing. The second last song, the heart wrenching \u201cNo One Will Know Where I Went,\u201d sounds at once like the moment where a film\u2019s protagonist realizes that everything will be alright, and the moment where they realize nothing will. This is followed by the shoegaze twang of album closer \u201cYou\u2019ll See Them In Your Sleep,\u201d a song that invokes images of the countryside on a warm summer\u2019s night. Album highlight \u201cDead Inside\u201d is a dance floor ready song that could very well bring you to tears. \u201cAthena\u201d is the soundtrack to the most beautiful nightmare you\u2019ve ever had. The album flows beautifully from track to track, a body of work that is best enjoyed in its entirety. Each track is so dense, filled with dizzying synths and excited drums, it is easy to forget that all of the sounds you are hearing started as field recordings. (Break World Records, breakworldrecs.com) <\/span>Mike Skwark <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u2018God\u2019s hand\u2019 is something that, theoretically, touches us all, which is what New York-based producer Nick Koenig\u2014better known as Hot Sugar\u2014intends to do with his first album, a wholly unique instrumental journey through everyday life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}