Mike Nigro is an electronic musician and label operator currently based on Gadigal land (or, Sydney, Australia). His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary experimental underground. His music explores the interactions and tensions between musicality and noise; movement and stasis; synthetics and organics.
His work has received praise from The Wire (“a fuzzily earnest exploration”), Bandcamp Daily (“Best Ambient Albums”), and Foxy Digitalis (“a warm caress at midnight”), as well as airplay on FBI Radio and 2SER (Sydney), 4ZZZ (Brisbane), RTRFM (Perth), KEXP (Seattle), and WFMU (NYC).
Nigro’s latest releases Leaving/Returning (2024) and Low Light (2023) both feature his signature blend of rippling arpeggios, cloud-soft chords, and self-schooled sound design with a tonal sensibility indebted to the 70s kosmische canon. He’s also the founder of Oxtail Recordings, a record label focusing on “ambient noise and broken songs,” which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024 with showcases in Australia, USA, UK, and EU. The label has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, NPR, SPIN, Tiny Mix Tapes and A Closer Listen, among others.