Nuxx "Compilation LP"
The sound of Nuxx is sweat, steel, and strobe light. The electro project of Madeline Seely has carved out a space where electronic body music collides with 90s techno, drum and bass, and digital hardcore, creating a relentless, high-BPM assault that feels equally at home in underground raves and art-house spaces. With Compilation LP, out May 2 via à La Carte Records, Nuxx revisits and recontextualizes three previously released EPs—Bird Brain, FTEV, and No Money—originally issued on cassette by Synthicide Records. Now, these feverish, distorted club weapons will be available on vinyl for the first time. Seely’s sound exists in the red: basslines that punch through the mix like a drum machine short-circuiting, synths that screech and contort, rhythms that push past the breaking point. It’s a sound indebted to electroclash, acid house, and hyperpop, but one that sidesteps retro tropes in favor of something harsher and more immediate. The collected works on Compilation LP map the evolution