Hot Sugar (musician)


Nick Koenig, better known by his stage name Hot Sugar, is an American record producer from New York City, New York. He is the owner of the Noise Collector record label. His music has been used in Broad City. He has collaborated with Antwon, Lakutis, Heems, Big Baby Gandhi, and Chippy Nonstop, among others.

Career

In 2011, Hot Sugar released his debut EP, Muscle Milk. In that year, he produced the Roots' song "Sleep", which was included in their Undun album. In 2012, he released the Moon Money EP, as well as the Midi Murder EP. In 2013, he released the Made Man EP. In that year, he produced Kitty's song "Barbie Jeep". In 2015, his debut studio album, God's Hand, was released on Break World Records. He starred in Adam Bhala Lough's Hot Sugar's Cold World, which received an honorable mention at the 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In 2017, he released a studio album, The Melody of Dust.
Hot Sugar has also directed music videos for Lil Peep's "Awful Things", Marshmello and Lil Peep's "Spotlight", and the Smashing Pumpkins' "Solara".

Style and influences

According to Complex, Hot Sugar's music is called "associative music, where he pulls in a ton of sounds from instruments, found sounds, and non-traditional places to sample them into his own melodies." He has been perfecting the technique since the age of 13. In a 2015 interview with NPR, he described associative music as "try to capture sounds the same way a photographer would capture an image: If something looks poetic, I'll record it".
In a 2015 interview with Nylon, Hot Sugar stated that Kenneth Anger and John Waters are very important to him. He said: "Their influence on modern culture is incalculable and their work is timelessly innovative."

Personal life

Hot Sugar has dated Molly Soda and Kitty.

Controversy

In June 2018, Hot Sugar filed a defamation lawsuit against Ricky Eat Acid and Fish Narc, stating that they "are co-conspirators who have engaged in libel and slander, among other unlawful acts, against over the course of years including recently through various social media publications such as Twitter and Wikipedia." Hot Sugar initially sought at least $100,000 in damages, and reached settlements with both of them in August 2018. In November 2018, an anonymous Instagram account accused Hot Sugar of "inappropriate messages" and "sexual assault". Multiple women, including Ricky Eat Acid's wife Kitty and Molly Soda, started speaking out about their relationships with Hot Sugar. In her Instagram post, Kitty said, "This violence and abuse was physical, emotional and sexual in nature." Ninja Tune and Ghost Ramp removed Hot Sugar's music from their catalogs in response to the allegations. He denied the allegations as "false and disparaging".

Discography

Studio albums

Feature films