When German synthwave queen NINA and Sally Shapiro producer Johan Agebjörn team up, it’s always worth your time. Today Vehlinggo is happy to premiere their latest collaboration, “Hush Hush Baby,” a kinetic and synth-driven dance single dropping tomorrow in streaming and download forms.
NINA (Scala Hearts, Synthian) last provided vocals, in spoken-word form, on the Sweden-born Agebjörn’s ambient-electronic Southern Forest LP recently, but this time she’s fully singing. The result? A profoundly catchy melody that NINA effortlessly delivers with her trademark breathy timbre. It’s the perfect fit for Agebjörn’s propulsive just-past-midnight club banger that reverberates off your body like a hard-edged Sally Shapiro number. The beats are tight, the synths are colorful, and the vocals are ethereal. This, my friends, is a damn fine song.
Here’s what the artists themselves had to say about their collab:
Agebjörn: “Hush Hush Baby” is for me a lot of synth joy: a song where I went back to the playfulness where it all began. When you listen to early italo disco you can sometimes hear how much fun the producers had with their synths. It was an experimental time with sounds that could have a raw character. Everything wasn’t always so well mixed, but that was compensated by playful energy. I thought the track would be perfect for Nina, who has a wonderful voice and always puts a lot of emotion into her songs. She masters this type of music.
NINA: I was excited to team up with Johan, because I love his Sally Shapiro records and his instrumental solo work is just beautiful. What hooked me on the track he gave me was the upbeat dance groove and synth curves which inspired a lover’s fantasy of joyriding through winding, neon-lit highways somewhere in the night. I think our collaboration resulted in a song that has a kind of unexpected edge. Oscillian’s remix, with his dreamy and cinematic signature style, adds yet another dimension to the song.
“Hush Hush Baby” will be available tomorrow as a download and on streamers. The release features a remix from longtime NINA collaborator Oscillian, as well as an instrumental.
For more information on the artists, check out NINA’s and Agebjörn’s respective websites.
