Eora-based innovative electronic producer, songwriter and DJ Ninajirachi has released her debut mixtape, Second Nature via Nina Las Vegas’ imprint NLV Records. The full-length solo project speaks to Nina’s creative and mental growth as an artist raised in the current internet era. Making music in a format that doesn’t involve traditional instruments, the uniqueness of her abilities extends past virtual limits, entering an unchartered zone of technical prowess, storytelling, and artistic versatility in her largest and most fleshed-out release yet. Effortlessly striding between worlds and genres, from underground internet subcultures through to main stage dance, Second Nature celebrates the vast ecosystem of electronic music and the eclectic taste of Nina’s generation.
“Second Nature means an instinctive habit (like music-making), but also ‘nature 2.0’, an idea that continuously inspires my work from the sonic palette to the cover art, which features android me in an android tree.” Nina reflects. “I am the chief architect of my world and write, record, and produce most things 100% myself using just my laptop. It becomes an extension of myself and makes me feel pretty mech which is cool because my brain is just an organic, super-advanced computer after all and it’s only a matter of time before machines catch up”.
Forging a strong connection to nature and her surroundings, Ninajirachi’s Second Nature mixtape breaks apart her cutting-edge sound and magnifies the layers that are existent in her streak of releases. The 12-track project lends itself to the second-nature reality of her music-making process, one that is an extension of herself and a laptop, bound not by software limitations – pure muscle memory. Accompanying the release is an immersive and interactive online world, in which users can move throughout a virtual world environment in a first-person capacity while experiencing a manifestation of the mixtape’s themes. Fans can check it out HERE.
Ninajirachi has also announced she will be playing a series of shows with Coalesce in Eora, Naarm and Meanjin alongside special guests including cookii, Mulalo, Caucasian Opportunities, AGONY, nerdie, Sandro Dallarmi, yergurl, Club Angel, Laces, Fresh Hex, Babie Club DJs, Heavy Gore, Kritty and Blair De Milo. Tour dates and tickets can be found below.
TOUR DATES
Fri 18 Nov – Coalesce 004 w/ Special Guests @ The Red Rattler – Eora / Sydney (TIX)
Sat 19 Nov – Coalesce 004 w/ Special Guests @ 524 Flinders – Naarm / Melbourne (TIX)
Sat 26 Nov – Spilt Milk Festival – Ngunnawal / Canberra
Fri 2 Dec – Coalesce 004 w/ Special Guests @ Woolly Mammoth – Meanjin / Brisbane (TIX)
Sat 3 Dec – Spilt Milk Festival – Wadawurrung / Ballarat
Sun 4 Dec – Spilt Milk Festival – Ngarangwal / Gold Coast
Fri 30 Dec – Wildlands Festival – Boorloo / Perth
Sat 7 Jan – Wildlands Festival – Meanjin / Brisbane
Thu Dec 29 – Beyond The Valley – Barunah Plains, VIC
Sun Jan 1 – Field Day – Eora / Sydney