Project Nostalgia started on July 16, 2025, when August reached out to Nitty with the idea of working on a small project together.
At the time, the plan wasn’t to make an album.
It was only supposed to be an eight-song EP, recorded with a different producer, just to see what it would sound like if the two of them got back in the studio again.
Both of them were in different places in life than when they first started making music together.
Responsibilities were different, priorities had changed, and the pressure of real life made it harder to create the way they used to.
Around that time, August had just moved his family into his house, which forced him to move his studio into the garage.
Recording didn’t feel the same, the energy wasn’t the same, and there was a lot of negativity surrounding music.
For a while, it felt like the passion that used to bring them together wasn’t there anymore.
The first studio session for the project happened on August 13, 2025.
The sound was different, the direction wasn’t clear yet, and the project still felt small.
It didn’t feel like the start of an album.
It felt like two friends getting back in the studio after some time apart, just to see if the chemistry they once had was still there.
But once the music started, something felt familiar again.
The conversations came easy.
The ideas came naturally.
The sessions started feeling less like work and more like the way things used to be when music was just about expression.
About a week later, everything changed when they found the producer who would shape the sound of the entire project — Mani the Producer.
When Mani got involved, the music started to take on a different feeling.
The beats sounded emotional, reflective, and nostalgic, and the more they recorded, the more the sessions started turning into conversations about the past…
where they came from…
the 209…
old memories…
old mistakes…
old friendships…
and the things that made them who they are today.
What started as a small EP slowly became something bigger.
Every session felt like another piece of their history.
Every song felt like it belonged to a different moment in their lives.
Every feature added another voice to the story.
That’s when the name Project Nostalgia started to make sense.
The album wasn’t about trying to sound new.
It wasn’t about chasing what was popular.
It was about going back to the feeling that made them start making music in the first place.
The nights they remember.
The places they came from.
The people who were there.
And the people who aren’t anymore.
Project Nostalgia became important because it reminded both of them why they ever started creating together.
Not for attention.
Not for money.
Not for approval.
But to tell the truth about their lives, their city, and the memories that never leave you.
Project Nostalgia didn’t start as a big idea.
It started in a garage,
with two artists who weren’t sure what the next step was,
and turned into the project that brought them back to the reason they started in the first place.
Project Nostalgia 