Six years have passed since NDF’s only single: “Since We Last Met,” a track so massive Ricardo Villalobos turned it into a 17-minute tour de force. Now Bruno Pronsato and Benjamin Myers (a.k.a. Sergio of Benoit & Sergio) are back with a new EP called Cruel is the Color. Centered around three original compositions and remixes by Matthew Herbert and Foom’s own Ben Freeney, it’s a welcome return that brings Myers back to the cold Berlin mornings where he’d often wander over to Pronsato’s studio to work.
“Perhaps because there was a lot of personal turmoil in those winter months,” says Myers, “we both really got into skullduggery and chicanery as concepts for the record—the ways that dishonest behaviors amongst friends, acquaintances and lovers (old and new) undermine a sense of self and security in our music scene and all its overlapping systems of value and parameters. We wanted to make a moral record.”
Listen to it in full below, right alongside an exclusive mix that Myers is happy to explain here:
1. Mick Karn (Feat. David Sylvian) – “When Love Walks In”
2. Wu Lyf – “Heavy Pop”
3. Orange Juice – “Lovesick”
4. Lives of Angels – “Golden Age”
5. Iron Curtain – “The Condos”
6. The Chameleons – “Perfume Garden”
7. Beat Happening – “Godsend”
8. Beulah – “Emma Blowgun’s Last Stand”
9. Versus – “The Foil Star”
10. Don Caballero – “The Peter Criss Jazz”
11. Sonic Youth – “Shadow of a Doubt”
