Spraoi Mór with Shy One

Dia daoibh a chairde! We are back with NTS resident and absolute icon, Shy One, joining us in Hang Dai on May 4th. Buzz in for a rip roaring banker as we welcome the warm summer sunshine. The temperature's rising, and Shy One is bringing the heat to that oh-so-sweet Hatchett Sound System. We absolutely cannot wait for this one, and are huge fans of the London based artist. Her eclectic sets are full of groove and absolutely impeccable selections. Dig into her NTS soup to nuts archive for a taste of what's to come. Spraoi Mór DJs Dar and Holten will be warming up the evening with their signature style. Dancing on tables guaranteed. See you on the floor! Read more on Shy from a DJ mag excerpt below: DJ and producer Shy One has never been afraid to be different. Her artist name might suggest a timid nature, but her approach to dance music is anything but. Shy One boldly assembles elements of her many influences into electrifying DJ sets, and tracks that combine brightly hued electronics with club-damaging beats. Her fresh approach has led to shows on hot London radio stations Balamii, Rinse and NTS, and releases on Japan’s Diskotopia label and Scratcha’s DVA Music. When she was growing up in Harrow, West London, Shy One (real name Mali Larrington-Nelson) was obsessed with grime and garage. At 14-years-old, she landed a DJ gig on a community radio station at her local youth club, before graduating to pirate station Hot 96. Even then, her musical tastes were diverse. “The show was mixed genre,” Larrington-Nelson says. “We’d play garage, R&B, dancehall, hip-hop.” In parallel, she was making beats on Fruity Loops for grime MCs, though some described her instrumentals as “weird” and “different”. It was this originality that caught the ear of bass music outlier Scratcha, who put out her 2012 debut album ‘Bedknobs And Boomkicks’: a feast of synth-heavy UK funky rhythms. Since, Shy One’s DJ sets have come to encompass an all- embracing array of dance styles influenced by her London upbringing. Hear her on NTS now, and you can expect everything from broken beat to house, UK rap and soul finding the common ground between them all. “That eclecticism comes from me finally realising that being a specialist DJ or focusing on one genre wasn’t true to me or my past or my influences,” she says, “because all these other genres are what I listen to everyday, and are what influence me even when I make a grime beat. Hearing this music and being brought up on it is where I get my style and my ear from.”