Grammy® nominated producer Nicolay, fresh on the heels of his nomination in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category celebrates the Holidays with Vikter Duplaix with a remix of Duplaix's new single "Electric Love."

The Netherlands raised / North Carolina based Nicolay, one-half of the artistic collective known as The Foreign Exchange, was nominated this year by The Recording Academy in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category. The Los Angeles based Duplaix, who hails from Philadelphia, is known in international circles as a Producer/Artist and DJ who earned Grammy® recognition in the same category in 2008.

As a celebration of the holidays, Vikter Duplaix and Nicolay are teaming up to offer the remix for free beginning Christmas day exclusively at VikterDuplaix.com.

"I have been a fan of Vikter's work for many years now, and I am thrilled that we've finally had an opportunity to work together." Nicolay shared recently from his adopted home in Wilmington, NC. "I hope this remix is only the beginning."

"It was important to me to share some holiday spirit with those who have supported me and my music throughout my career," stated Duplaix. "Gifting Nicolay's interpretation of my new single "Electric Love" will hopefully expose even more people to his tremendous talent."

Check out the remix below or download your FREE copy exclusively at VikterDuplaix.com.

Click the link below to download your copy of the 'City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya' sampler!

If you haven't done so already, you can still download the first single taken from the album, 'Lose Your Way feat. Carlitta Durand', for FREE by clicking here.

'CITY LIGHTS VOL. 2: SHIBUYA' SAMPLER
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The sampler includes snippets of the following tracks::

01 Shibuya Station
02 Crossing
03 Omotesando
04 Meiji Shrine
05 Shadow Dancing
06 Bullet Train
07 Saturday Night feat. Carlitta Durand

We proudly present you with the first single taken from the upcoming Nicolay album "City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya", in stores September 15 on Foreign Exchange Music/HBD. Click on the single cover below for your FREE download!


As always, we encourage you to spread the word and forward this to anyone that you think may like it. We appreciate it!

PURPLE FLIP [right click and save to download MP3 file]

Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson- Drums, Samples
Nicolay- Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano
Zo!- Korg synth, additional rhodes
Phonte and Carlitta Durand- Vocals

This is the first in a series of random goodies that we will be periodically dropping off in your mailboxes. (Who loves ya, baby?)

We recorded this over a month ago specifically for a ?uestlove tribute party dedicated to The Purple One himself. Other than passing it off to a few DJ friends who vowed to keep it on some secret squirrel, "bet you aint up on THIS!" status, no one has ever heard it. In the wake of the incredible loss we suffered on June 25 however, this joint took on somewhat of a deeper meaning.

We decided to share it with our fans not only as a token of appreciation, but also as a way of paying respect to one of our last living musical geniuses.

Let's not wait until tragedy strikes before we show love and gratitude to our heroes, people. Give them their flowers while they live.

This one's for you, Mr. Nelson. You are loved and appreciated.

Enjoy!

One Love,
'Tay and Nic

Nicolay calls in to the nationally syndicated Rickey Smiley Morning Show for a quick interview about The Foreign Exchange. We find out that Rickey is a big Foreign Exchange fan, who plays Leave It All Behind every evening and thinks every track on it is a HIT! Listen to the audio below.

This mixtape by the homie from Toronto DJ Mensa has been making the rounds in the blogosphere for the last couple of weeks, and rightfully so, as it is a nice introduction to the work of The Foreign Exchange and their extended family, put together in preparation for The Foreign Exchange's performance in Toronto earlier this June. Check out the tracklisting below.

Download link: Take It All With You (A Primer To The Foreign Exchange Experience) - Mixed by DJ Mensa

If you missed the airing of The Foreign Exchange's Sirius XM Radio live session last week, here's your chance to listen to it in its entirety as our friends of Subsoniq have put the complete session up for download through their website. Big up to K-Murdock, KB and Monica and everyone else that made the performance possible.

Click here to download part 1
Click here to download part 2