Nikki Nair announces dh2 debut EP The Sick Dimension

Nikki Nair has set The Sick Dimension, his debut for Dirty Hit’s dh2, for August 7. The four-track EP folds his recent single Default Mode into a compact release that keeps one foot in club utility and the other in stranger territory.

Nair says he made the record by using “all of the weird gear” he has and getting back into digging for old house music. That matches the way the EP is being framed: drum-driven house music with his own vocals woven through it, but also enough experimental sound design to keep it from settling into familiar lane-markers. Nair put the tension bluntly: “In my mind, I’m making normal house music, but when I get feedback, I guess it does not sound like normal house music to most people.”

The release lands on dh2, the electronic imprint Dirty Hit launched in June 2024 and put under the direction of George Daniel. The label’s launch party took place at Phonox in Brixton on July 11, 2024, and the roster has since filled out with Kelly Lee Owens, Oscar Farrell, Surusinghe, Olof Dreijer, Josh Caffé and 2D0GS. That context matters here, because Nair’s signing reads less like a one-off curiosity and more like a continuation of the label’s club-facing strategy.

The Sick Dimension is listed with the catalogue number dh20143, and Dirty Hit’s store has the vinyl priced at $20.00. Bandcamp lists the track sequence as Default Mode, Odd Sympathy, Please Do Not and One Hundred, and describes the EP as Nair’s first studio solo release since Violence Is the Answer. That gives the record a clean release narrative as well as a short, functional tracklist, the sort of shape that works when an artist wants ideas to hit fast and still leave room for DJs to play with them.

Nair’s path makes the signing feel earned rather than opportunistic. Resident Advisor identifies him as Atlanta-based and notes his first event listing there dates to 2016, while Insomniac places his beginnings in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he co-threw parties before making his producer debut in 2018. A 2026 appearance on The Avalanches’ single Together with Jessy Lanza and Prentiss adds another sign that his reach is widening. The Sick Dimension arrives as a concise test of that trajectory: club music that keeps the weird gear in the room, but still knows exactly where the kick drum belongs.