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The profile · researched 26 September 2026
Milo Evans spent a decade on SoundCloud before one summer single changed the room size
nimino is the London producer whose downtempo house records crossed over in 2024 and who now plays theatres and ballrooms on three continents; the keep me awake tour runs from autumn 2026 into January 2027 with a new single every few months behind it.
Drums first, laptop second
nimino is Milo Evans, a British producer and DJ based in London, and the name is said nih-mee-no. He came to production the long way round: drums from the age of eleven, then a laptop a few years later once the sounds he wanted stopped being things a kit could make. He has described starting to write electronic music at fourteen, with Skream, Burial, Koan Sound and Feed Me as the reference points, and before any of that a teenage attachment to the quieter, more sentimental end of Muse.
That mix explains more about the records than any genre tag does. The drumming shows up in how the percussion is cut — clipped, dry, pushed forward — and the Muse strand shows up in the chords, which are usually warmer and more openly emotional than the house records they sit next to. A remix he posted while still in his teens earned him an artist-of-the-month write-up from the Huffington Post, which was the first outside attention of any kind.
The output settled into a shape somewhere between house, hip hop and UK garage, with the tempo usually held back. Reviewers have reached for Mura Masa, SG Lewis and Cosmo's Midnight as neighbours, which is roughly right for the texture and slightly wrong for the mood — nimino's records are darker and less concerned with a chorus.
Ten years of uploads, then one summer
The first singles and EPs arrived in 2018, with "You Wonder with Me" among them, and for the next six years the growth was incremental and SoundCloud-shaped. Vara and Kele both landed in 2019. "Opening Credits" picked up real traction on social platforms well before he had the apparatus to do anything with it — by his own account he simply was not set up to convert the attention, and it passed.
The debut album, Rooms on the Ark, came out on 7 July 2021 through TH3RD BRAIN: ten tracks in roughly thirty-three minutes, built as a conceptual run of spaces rather than a singles collection, with Harrison Mayo, Ro Nova and Alex Arcoleo among the collaborators and "Light Up" as one of the points people fixed on. The Woods EP followed in 2022, gathering four already-released tracks, and 2023 brought "No Sympathy", "Can't Get Over" and "Killing Me Slowly".
Then 2024. "I Only Smoke When I Drink" became one of the largest dance releases of that summer, passed a hundred million streams, reached number 48 on the UK singles chart and number 15 on the US Dance/Electronic Songs chart, went Gold with the BPI, drew a Claptone remix and finished at number 62 in that year's Triple J Hottest 100. In the same year he signed to Counter Records, the Ninja Tune imprint, which is where everything since has come out.
What the label years have produced
The Counter Records period has been run as a steady sequence of singles rather than a second album. March 2025 brought Creek, a five-track EP that he built around contrast — some of it deliberately bright and open, some of it closed-in and cavernous — on the logic that an EP should move through distinct environments rather than hold one. Talking about it, he put the lesson of the previous two years plainly: more than anything, he had learned it was about being reactive.
One of his recurring production habits is worth noting because it is audible once flagged: he samples laughter, from friends and from old recordings, and uses it as percussion. Depending on where it sits in the bar it reads as either giddy or faintly threatening, and both versions turn up on record.
2025 also produced "Shaking Things Up", "Beside Of Me" with Maverick Sabre, and "Better" with Manta. The industry lists caught up in the same window — Amazon Music UK named him one of its 2025 artists to watch, Tomorrowland included him in its twenty for 2025, and Stereofox put him in its rising-electronic list for the year. Alongside that he named "Opening Credits", "Save a Soul" and "No Sympathy" as the tracks his sets are still built around.
Where things stand in September 2026
Two singles have carried this year. "Take My Space" arrived in May 2026 on Counter Records and is the lighter of the pair — restrained stutter-house underneath, the intensity traded for something more open-ended. "Eat Me Better", released on 19 August 2026, goes the other way: nocturnal synths, clipped percussion and heavy, pulsing bass under a vocal from the Australian-British singer Charlotte Plank, with the track sitting on the line between wanting someone and being tender about it. An extended version and an official video followed.
The touring has expanded faster than the discography. Songkick currently lists him across nine countries — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Ireland and Australia — with a run of dates stretching from late September 2026 into the new year. He played Breakaway in Concord, North Carolina over the weekend of 25–27 September 2026 and Portola in San Francisco on 26–27 September, the two effectively bookending the start of the campaign.
Before all that, the spring had already been busy on the American side, including Treefort in Boise and a Boulder Theater date on 14 March 2026. The venue tier has moved up accordingly: sold-out headline shows at Village Underground in London, Racket in New York and the El Rey in Los Angeles are now behind him, and the current routing books rooms several sizes larger.
The keep me awake tour
The autumn and winter run is billed as the keep me awake tour and was announced in May 2026 alongside "Take My Space". The European leg opens at Electric in Bristol on 8 October 2026, then Leeds and Paris on the 9th and 10th, a Nordic stretch through Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm between 14 and 17 October, and further UK, Irish and Dutch dates from 22 October, including two nights at Outernet in London on 28 and 29 October.
North America takes November and December: Roadrunner in Boston on 6 November, Terminal 5 in New York on the 7th, then the 9:30 Club in Washington DC on 3 December, Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia on the 4th, Mission Ballroom in Denver on the 11th, The Van Buren in Phoenix on the 12th and the Belly Up in Del Mar on the 19th, with Seattle and Portland also on the sheet. The run finishes on the other side of the world, at Field Day in Sydney on 1 January 2027.
The Bristol show gives a fair picture of how these are being staged domestically: promoted by DHP, doors at seven, curfew at eleven, tickets at £20 plus fee, and a 14-plus age policy with under-16s accompanied. That is a notably young door limit for a club-adjacent bill, and it matches what people report about the crowds.
The show, now
A nimino headline set in 2026 runs as a DJ performance rather than a song-by-song recital: he mixes continuously, pulls vocal fragments in and out, and builds through long approaches instead of stacking drops, with "Opening Credits", "Save a Soul" and "No Sympathy" among the anchors he has said his sets are constructed around, and "I Only Smoke When I Drink" the point the room is waiting for. UK dates on the keep me awake tour are early and short by club standards — Electric in Bristol on 8 October 2026 has doors at seven and a curfew at eleven, £20 plus fee, promoted by DHP, with a 14-plus policy and under-16s accompanied — while the American December run moves into 1,000–4,000-capacity rooms including the 9:30 Club, Mission Ballroom and Terminal 5. Custom visuals have travelled with the show since his sold-out North American tour ahead of the Creek EP, and attendees consistently rate the screen work alongside the music. Support acts are not being listed on most venue pages in advance. Fan reaction is warm but not uncritical: one Bandsintown review of a recent show summed the experience up as a great set played to a chatty, phone-heavy crowd, which is the predictable cost of a breakthrough that happened on social platforms first.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · beatportal.com · ninjatune.net · songkick.com · electricbristol.com · stereofox.com · qobuz.com · edmidentity.com
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