Back in the days when we were teenagers, before we had Facebook statuses and before Twitter Boreta and Eprom were DJing drum n bass together at school. Bonding over their shared love of the music and its potentials eventually lead the pair to form the Nasty Ways production alias – a direct reference to those days and a hat tip to Dillinja, their favourite dnb producer. This interest soon expanded to experimental electronic music further informing their first steps as producers.

Having moved to San Francisco the pair soon found themselves busy playing underground shows with early instances of Ableton live allowing them to mash up IDM and electronic productions with hip hop acapellas. This convinced them to start working together more seriously leading to what Boreta refers to as ‘lots of psychedelic experimentation and live electronic jam sessions’. Nasty Ways is a project born of similar tastes and shared experiences as well as of a love of sound system music and culture whether it be dub, drum and bass, hip hop or electronic music. Pressure is key, as is fun.

Despite the project’s early beginnings, Nasty Ways officially landed in 2008 with a remix of Lil Wayne’s Lollipop – featured on The Glitch Mob’s Crush Mode mixtape. A few years of relative silence followed as Nasty Ways took a backseat to the pair’s own careers though this is all set to change in 2012. Having spent more time in the studio together exploring ‘fucked up beats,’ Boreta and Eprom are now ready to give the world some more of those Nasty Ways.

The first official Nasty Ways release will be an EP for The Glitch Mob’s own Glass Air label. As with previous bootlegs and other leaks that have made their way onto the internet you can expect the kind of booty-shaking, dancefloor-quaking futuristic riddims that Nasty Ways excel at – productions that link the past, present and future of bass-heavy dance music while keeping the bump of hip hop firmly at the core.

Being built on a love of sound system music, Nasty Ways needs to be experienced live and so the duo are planning a series of shows for the year to give people the full bodied experience. A hint of all this can already be heard and felt in their recent reworking of Jay-Z and Kanye’s N**gas in Paris that has been traumatising dancefloors worldwide. And that’s all merely the tip of the iceberg as the pair emerge from their lair to make 2012 their own.