Contributing WriterFrench producer Selim Sivade and NYC vocalist Barbara Nicole return with their most fully realized collaboration to date. The “Savage” EP, out now via renowned Innervisions sub-label Exit Strategy, follows their Beton Brut debut “Just Skin,” which earned early support from Âme and James Zabiela, and picks up where that release left off: two artists finding a shared emotional language between Sivade’s cinematic, French Riviera-rooted production and Barbara Nicole’s classically trained vocals, then pushing further into the dark.
The EP’s two tracks arrived from very different places. Title track “Savage” was shaped by a night out at Tresor – dense, searching, and club-hardened. “Disco Futuro” came out of a studio session in Paris following a live show the pair played together, and carries a looser, more expansive energy by contrast. Both feel less like dancefloor tools and more like dispatches from specific moments in time: the kind of music that lodges in memory rather than just moving bodies. The release has already found its way to Dixon and Jimi Jules, and earned airplay on Samantha Loveridge‘s BBC Radio 1 show ahead of its official arrival.
Sivade brings a decade of underground credentials to the collaboration, releases on Cocoon, Watergate, Get Physical, and WhoMadeWho‘s The Moment Audio, while Barbara Nicole arrives with her own distinct pedigree: choir training with the Grammy-winning Handel and Haydn Society, studies under LP Giobbi, a FEMMY award at MMW26, and her own Good Crazy imprint.
The “Savage” EP is out now via Exit Strategy – stream here.
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