Mindslash channels his own night shifts into Nightshift EP

Mindslash released his ‘Nightshift’ EP on Set About Music on 26 September, pairing the title track with ‘Embrace’ across two songs.

The title track grew out of a hard stretch clocking night shifts at a shop selling liquor and cigarettes. Mindslash captured the sounds of the job itself — the hum of the coolers, the till, the scanner’s beep — and worked them into the track’s hard-hitting drums and looping synth lines. ‘Embrace’ tempers that same intensity with softer, more immersive melodic touches.

It follows ‘Prime Time.’ Mindslash has played clubs in Yalta and Plazma, along with a set at Street Parade Veliko Tarnovo, a festival in his native Bulgaria.

The title track opens the EP, drums hitting hard under synths that circle overhead. Mindslash has been carving out a place in Bulgaria’s techno scene, and this is the furthest he has taken it.