<\/p>\n
The entertainment business has a reputation as a fickle beast\u2014a hostile environment where selflessness is an albatross from success. Gigantic NGHTMRE are a splash of cold water to that fever dream.<\/p>\n
NGHTMRE<\/a> and Big Gigantic<\/a> have never shied from playing nice. Their new, self-titled collaborative EP<\/a> is an example of strength in numbers. It’s also a reminder that the musical mines of the world bear too much precious ore for any one act to excavate. <\/p>\n Big Gigantic, whose previous collaborations include Big Grizmatik (with GRiZ<\/a> and Gramatik<\/a>) and Gigantic Underground Conspiracy (with the Disco Biscuits and Underground Orchestra)\u2014are keenly aware of how much creativity can be pooled from multiple wells.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “It’s something that Dom and I have done from the beginning,” Big Gigantic’s Jeremy Salken tells EDM.com<\/em>. “I think it traces to our backgrounds in music and growing up playing jazz and being in a wedding band or a funk band.”<\/p>\n “Having all these different experiences, appreciating different kinds of music and having lots of friends in different bands pre-Big Gigantic, we came to the table loving what we were doing,” he continues. “But then we’re like, ‘Oh man, let’s try to throw this in the mix. What if we do a live band version of Big G? Or what if we team up with Tyler who we are big fans of and get outside of our comfort zone and try to take that to a different level?’ It’s just fun, man.”<\/p>\n