Nicolas Barnes

Nicolas Barnes is an electronic music producer from Riga, Latvia who began releasing music in March 2021. He also produces under the alias Nikolass Balas and has accumulated 22 releases across various electronic music labels over his career.

Barnes operates primarily within techno and minimal deep tech territories, delivering raw, hypnotic, and deep variations of the genre alongside peak-time driving material. His releases appear on labels including Greyscale, Conceptual, Simple Things Records, MixCult Digital, and Agua y Sed. His sound encompasses deep house elements and spans from meditative minimal grooves to more driving techno cuts suitable for peak-time sets. Barnes maintains an active release schedule, with his discography extending through 2026, indicating consistent output across the underground electronic music scene.