online services dont even come with a free/unpaid version anymore, the second you try to do anything they just look at you like uh... subscwibe pwease??? 🥺 👉👈

one of these days i gotta do a concept album about autism

happy conservative seething month for those who celebrate

yall ever have a dream that makes you think like 20 years have passed when you wake up

almost missed it but happy international asexuality day!

100 ratings on mosaica <3 thank u so much!!

cryptobros say nfts are the future > nfts fall off and disappear mark zuckerberg touts the metaverse as the future of living > horizon worlds gets shuttered techbros tell us gen ai is here to stay > sora dies and ram prices drop for the first time in months i'm beginning to notice a trend here

Repost if your account is a safe space for the trans community. 🏳️‍⚧️

my artist page on rateyourmusic is close to 100 followers! if you're on the site and you've enjoyed my music be sure to give me a follow (and also uh... rate mosaica for that matter heh) rateyourmusic.com/artist/nicks...

Join us this tomorrow night @ 6 PM EST for a Listening Party of @nickstermusic.bsky.social's New album 'Mosaica'! businesscasual87.bandcamp.com/merch/nickst...

MOSAICA out now everywhere!!! open.spotify.com/album/58HHhO...

MOSAICA PREMIERE STARTING SOON!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UftO...

two hours till release time, and i wanna leave you all off with a very important message: never lose sight of who you are. life’s too short to worry about how you’re perceived. spend these years doing what you love instead of fearing what people might think of you if you do <3

15. Mosaica (Reprise) Closer on the album, brings everything full circle and to a close simultaneously. Ironically this was the first track I worked on when I fully started production for this album. (1/2)

MOSAICA THIS FRIDAY ON BANDCAMP 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

14. Permutations Shortest non-interlude track on the album. Basically what I tried to do was take a few sample chops, have every possible arrangement of those chops play one after the other (hence the title), and make a song out of it. (1/2)

13. The Battle of Hopelessness The big “don’t be a doomer” track (pretty fitting message going into 2026 tbh). ngl I was very afraid people were gonna find this corny or too blissfully ignorant or something but i’m glad it’s seemingly resonated with listeners thus far. (1/2)

12. Interlude 3: Still More Dumb Ideas Just a short comp of random ideas (some on this track were genuine old ideas i had before, the others I kinda came up with on the spot lol). Really I wanted to make something a bit in the vein of Mr. Oizo’s “Lambs’ Garbage.”

11. Nineteen Based off an old wip from early 2023, and named after my favorite number + date of birth. Wanted to go with a vibe that felt nostalgic to me personally. This one’s got the logos/niche samples in full force so I hope you’re prepared :)))

10. Cities Originally made for the Various Artists compilation Team Building: Second Floor, hosted by fellow artist Hot Singles. All participating artists had to flip the same sample, and generally we went in pretty different directions for the most part (1/2)

9. Interlude 2: Swim My attempt at doing something more ambient. I flipped a vocal sample taken from a local kids TV block I used to watch on PBS and I think it came out really nicely.

8. Phone Me (ft. @merenotilde.bsky.social) The first (and hopefully not last) collab with the pink bnuuy himself! This one is (evidently) phone-themed, and imo we both did such a great job blending the main two samples here. Partially got the idea from this weird voicemail I got one time. (1/2)

7. Slide An idea I had dating as far back as 2022, and an overall concept that I think a lot of y’all are gonna find really funny tbh. Also really let my inner “logo kid” shine on this one a bit (hopefully not to the detriment of the track lmao). (1/2)

6. All Night This one’s almost like a deconstruction of a future funk/house-oriented party track; it gets really crazy, that’s as much as I can say. (1/2)

5. Interlude 1: Samba Shit First interlude on the album, I was thinking “what if I made a bad song on purpose?” Features a sample some of y’all might be familiar with (hint: also (technically) sampled by the sole collaborator on this album).

4. You’re Crazy! Wanted to do something more tongue-in-cheek with this one, although I will say this track was mostly inspired by Classic Files’ stuff. Also features some of the most odd sample choices on the album (mainly in part because of the aforementioned tongue-in-cheek vibe I was going for).

3. Cool This one’s based on an idea I had floating around in my notes for a couple years. Was the track I kept tweaking and refining the most out of all on the project. Also tangentially related to Oneohtrix Point Never, but I won’t say too much about that…

2. With Your Technique The first single off the album (released exactly a year ago tomorrow, in fact). Probably my favorite song I’ve ever done (if we’re not counting frontier psychiatrist w/ newer samples, but that’s not really an “original” song lol), (1/2)

1. Mosaica Obviously the title track, and probably the one most closely tied to the overall theme/message of the album. My current personal record for most samples used in a song (116 to be exact, counting 1 interpolation. the hood internet are probably crying in a corner rn lol).

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Welcome to 2026!!! and mosaica is almost here :3 as promotion, each day on here from the 1st to the 15th i'm gonna post a couple facts about each track on the album. hope you're hyped!!

MOSAICA 1.16.2026 Tracklist: Mosaica With Your Technique Cool You’re Crazy! Interlude 1: Samba Shit All Night Slide Phone Me (ft. Mere Notilde) Interlude 2: Swim Cities Nineteen Interlude 3: Still More Dumb Ideas The Battle of Hopelessness Permutations Mosaica (Reprise) Artwork by Mr. Hoosteen

I remade daft punk’s face to face but differently and it changed my life forever

also did a solo upload of the one i made for the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQf...

those of you into mashups be sure to check out the recently released 710 Rainbow trilogy of mashup mixtapes! each one was hosted by @duuzu.bsky.social and features a wide variety of artists/djs (myself included!) seventythree.bandcamp.com/album/710-ra...

Here's what's coming this January from Business Casual! New releases from 회사AUTO (@zaturnvalley.bsky.social), @nickstermusic.bsky.social, and the members of OltreRete Collective, PLUS the cassette release of @luxuryelite.bsky.social's album 'talk soup'! And for bizcas subscribers, a new lux BIZMIX!

@sonemic.com rateyourmusic.com/release/albu... #RYMbestof2025 aoty for me, she fuckin killed it on this one

mosaica cover + tracklist dropping 12/31

mashups is the genre that most requires a theory background & is the genre most produced by people with no theory background

actual dystopia shit. capitalism won’t stop until it’s found a way way to monetize and commodify every aspect of the human experience

i am leaving whosampled in protest of spotify's acquisition of them, and i encourage everyone else to do the same. as someone who has been a huge lover of sampling in music for years, i can only see this hurting artists and music enjoyers alike. #SpotifyGoHome

it's my 22nd bday today :) and mosaica drops in less than 2 months so much to be excited about :DDDDDD

was thinking of doing another nov tapes installment this year but i only did like 3 days before i got too behind to catch up 😭 also i'm a little burnt out anyway with the album and everything, maybe next year 💔

just a little something to get to know me and what i make ko-fi.com/post/Nickste... #KofiCreativeVoice

cool things are happening

final single from mosaica is out!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGwa...

Hello everyone. Unfortunately, my family and I received a notice of eviction yesterday and I will have to look for a new place by Wednesday or else we'll be kicked out. I do not feel good coming public about this, but I don't really have any other options. ko-fi.com/biometricmea...

1 year of bumpin that youtu.be/X1Hx4EdZln4?...

happy pride month yall :) and let me just say that you should never, and i mean NEVER, think that *you* as a person, as an identity, are wrong.

Please contribute if you can

been busy with college stuff so album work has slowed down a bit, but I can say it's like 85% done. got like 3 songs left (one of them also hopefully a collab 👀)