Nazar – Demilitarize on Hyperdub

Nazar delivers a new Bass / Club, “Demilitarize”, now available on Hyperdub. Released on 2025-04-25. Download now.

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Behind the Bass / Club : Release Notes

Demilitarize follows Nazars remarkable 2020 debut Guerrilla, which reprocessed Angolan kuduro music with rough textures, field recordings and media clips, telling a personal story of the civil war that exiled his family to Europe, while his father, a rebel General, fought a losing battle in the jungle back home. After Guerrilla, and an extended period of serious illness, now Demilitarize is motivated by a reckoning with mortality and the flowering of new love, turning the rough kuduro of Guerrilla inside out. This is a deep sound world, genuinely dreamy, the arc of the album describing shedding the armour of trauma and surrendering to this new situation. A constant and unexpected aspect of Demilitarize is Nazars gentle, submerged vocal. Insistent and mantra-like, its like a cross between Elisabeth Frazer, Arthur Russell and Frank Ocean, and the music is fragile and opaque in response. The rhythms of kuduro are still here, but move around his voice like fish around a swimmer, while precise sound design illuminates from different angles. Chords spiral, ripple and shoot through the beats giving tracks the loosest of settings; songs disassemble; vocals float off-centre.

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Tracklist & Tempos

1. Nazar – Core Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 80 BPM – E Minor | 03:32

2. Nazar – Anticipate Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 130 BPM – C Minor | 02:54

3. Nazar – War Game Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 131 BPM – G Minor | 03:59

4. Nazar – Mantra Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 97 BPM – B Major | 01:53

5. Nazar – Unlearn Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 70 BPM – Ab Minor | 03:21

6. Nazar – Disarm Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 95 BPM – Eb Major | 02:49

7. Nazar – Open Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 130 BPM – Gb Minor | 04:09

8. Nazar – Safe Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 70 BPM – Db Minor | 03:41

9. Nazar – Heal Original Mix, Download MP3

   Ambient / Experimental | 84 BPM – E Minor | 05:09

10. Nazar – DMZ Original Mix, Download MP3

    Ambient / Experimental | 111 BPM – F Minor | 05:03