Local EDM legend Ninajirachi drops by the studio to chat to Ethan all about her debut album, I Love My Computer.

Exploring teenage nostalgia through digital sound and technology, the album sounds like the music you'd listen to while sitting at the back of the bus to school with tangled headphones plucked in each ear at full volume. It preserves these moments in time while paralleling a deep appreciation and understanding of the contemporary electronic dance music landscape we are find ourselves in.

Opening with London Song, Nina explores her relationship with computers as an expansive tool to defy the bounds of what digital musical expression can reveal. Then, singles iPod Touch and Fuck My Computer begin to show what Ninajirachi is really made of– clean, dynamic production distinctive of an attunement with EDM, tinged with dancefloor moments and self-reflective melodies. Intentional tracklisting and made to played in order (no shuffling!), highlights on the album include CSIRAC– a dedication to Australia's first digital computer and the first to create digital music in the world– as well as Battery Death, which taps into dance-pop sounds reminiscent of the stages Ninajirachi has commanded including at Lollapalooza and EDC.

Coming up, Ninajirachi will embark on the sold-out Dark Crystal Tour of Australia & Aotearoa, head to Turtle Island (North America) for the I Love My Computer Tour, before returning to local shores performing at regional festival, Spilt Milk.

I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi is out now via NLV Records.

Aria Zarzycki