Nuage

Dmitry Kuzmin, known professionally as Nuage, is a Saint Petersburg, Russia–based producer working across drum & bass–adjacent and club-focused electronic styles. His output began in drum & bass and 2‑step/garage settings and later expanded into liquid, lo‑fi house, deep house and melodic electronica.

Nuage’s first full‑length release, Music Of Branches, arrived on Absys Records in 2013. He followed with the Prints Of You LP on Translation Recordings in 2014 and the WILD album on Project Mooncircle in 2017. Beyond those albums, his music has appeared on labels including Anjunadeep, 20/20 Vision, Phonica Records and This Never Happened.

Public biographical detail about his early life is limited, but the record shows a clear trajectory: early releases rooted in drum & bass and 2‑step/garage gave him a footing in shuffled beats and syncopated percussion, then his work shifted toward more melodic, tempo‑flexible material across house and electronica. That documented progression — from Music Of Branches (2013) through WILD (2017) — maps the stylistic changes listeners hear across his catalogue.

As a producer Nuage favors detailed sonic layering and melodic arrangement. Across his releases he uses warm pad chords and reverb to build atmospheres, places emphasis on melody lines and vocal fragments, and contrasts those elements with rhythm programming that can range from lightly shuffled two‑step to more four‑on‑the‑floor house grooves. In his liquid‑leaning tracks the drums retain subtle break‑inspired syncopation, while his lo‑fi house pieces employ tape‑like saturation, restrained high‑end, and slower BPMs compared with his earlier drum & bass work.

Specific production techniques that recur in his work include careful chord voicings, sidechain compression to articulate bass and pads, and the use of textured, often slightly degraded samples to give mixes a worn, tactile quality. Bass design in his liquid material typically favors round, mid‑focused sub lines rather than aggressive neuro or quick wobble — the emphasis is on melodic support rather than low‑end confrontation. Where breaks appear, they are often treated with filtering and delay to sit beneath the melodic foreground.

Nuage’s recorded contributions are concrete: three full‑length albums on Absys Records (2013), Translation Recordings (2014) and Project Mooncircle (2017), plus singles and EPs on Anjunadeep, 20/20 Vision, Phonica Records and This Never Happened. His tracks and premieres have been covered by outlets such as EARMILK and Resident Advisor, and his music has been played on radio including BBC Radio 1, which helped introduce his crossover material to wider electronic and club audiences.

Direct named influences are not widely documented in public sources, but the stylistic markers in his catalogue point to a working vocabulary drawn from 2‑step/garage rhythmics, liquid funk chord work, and the textural approaches common to lo‑fi and deep house. Those touchpoints explain the hybrid character listeners hear across his releases from 2013 to 2017.

Nuage remains identifiable by that through‑line: early drum & bass and 2‑step foundations, a move into melodic, pad‑driven liquid and house textures, and releases on labels that map his shift (Absys, Translation, Project Mooncircle, plus Anjunadeep, 20/20 Vision, Phonica and This Never Happened). WILD (Project Mooncircle, 2017) stands as a clear marker of his turn toward melodic electronica while preserving the production craft he developed in his drum & bass and garage period.