Nikki Nair is a producer and DJ now living in Los Angeles. He is perhaps best known for “Set The Roof,” a collaboration with Hudson Mohawk and Tayla Parx that appeared on year-end lists from Pitchfork and Resident Advisor. He recently played alongside Four Tet and other notable music people at Under The K Bridge.

Nikki Nair surprise releases Violence Is The Answer, a new EP out now via Future Classic. Guests include yunè pinku, Uffie, Blaketheman1000, and Harmony. Its tracks are replete with Nair’s signature freewheeling sound design — acid house synths, rubbery bass drums, bed frame squeaks in the place of hi-hats, decontextualized trance stabs, and other rebellions against aural fascism.