Community Picks is a weekly series where artists submit a release to be voted on by members of the Nina community. Once a week, the release with the most votes will receive editorial coverage. This week’s winner is the song “I Loved the Sun” by Dolorblind. The track is noisy and slow-burning; the artist wanted to channel the “eerie, suffocating energy” of the smoggy city at night. He succeeded. We sent over some questions to Rohan Sinha, the person behind Dolorblind. Read the interview and listen to “I Loved the Sun” below.
Dolorblind - I Loved the Sun
Community PicksGet to know this week’s Community Picks winner.
By editorial
2025/05/16
Where are you from?
Rohan Sinha: I’m originally from Patna, Bihar, but I’m currently based between New Delhi and Bangalore.
How would you describe your music to someone who has never heard it?
My music is kind of an abstraction of 2010s commercial hip-hop since that’s what I grew up on. My sound blends those roots with experimental, cinematic, and textural compositions. Most of the time there's a bit of drama in it. It sits somewhere between ambient, club, and post-internet chaos.
Tell us about your release on Nina.
This is my first release on Nina, and I’m planning to share a lot more through the platform. I made the track in the middle of the night while the city was covered in a thick, apocalyptic smog. I tried to channel that eerie, suffocating energy into the music. I was also interested in creating something extremely chaotic to capture the feeling of being sucked into nothingness—a slow, beautiful destruction.
What kind of tools do you use to make music?
I produce on FL Studio and use the SP404MK2 often, especially for mangling and resampling samples. I also pull sounds from synths like the Roland J6 and occasionally layer textures from my Omnichord OM-27. My process is very collage-based. I like taking raw, sometimes broken-sounding elements and reshaping them into something emotionally alive.
Who are five independent artists you think people should check out?
