NCT To Release Self-Composed Tracks Under Music Archiving Project NCT Lab

Acting as an extension to SM Station (a digital music project curated by SM Entertainment in 2016), South Korean group NCT announces NCT Lab—a music archiving project, offering fans a deeper look into the group’s musicality. 

NCT Lab aims at releasing self-composed tracks either as solo or unit songs through SM Station. The tracks released under the project are ones you’d not find on a regular NCT album, giving the artist an alternative avenue to creatively challenge and express themselves. 

The project will commence with the group’s resident rapper-songwriter, Mark’s solo track “Child.” Slated to release on February 4th at 6:00 PM KST (2:30 PM IST), “Child” marks the rapper’s first solo single since his 2016 debut, and reportedly stems from hip-hop beats, with a unique blend of bass and electric guitar sounds. Mark, who is currently a part of NCT and its sub-units—NCT U, NCT DREAM, NCT 127 and SM’s supergroup SuperM—is said to have participated in the composition and lyricism of the track. 

Since its inception, SM Station has been home to several tracks by NCT members—the latest one being NCT TEN’s August 2021 single “Paint Me Naked.” Other singles include EXO’s Xiumin and Mark’s “Young and Free,” NCT DREAM’s “Joy,” and “Candle Light,” NCT U (Taeil, Doyoung and Jaehyun) “Timeless,” leader Taeyong’s “Long Flight,” British singer HRVY and NCT DREAM’s “Don’t Need Your Love,” and several others which either saw the members as solo artists or paired in unit with fellow group or label members.