Toronto-born, Copenhagen-based recording artist Nathan Micay drops the new track/visual IT’S RECESS EVERYWHERE, taken off his forthcoming album TO THE GOD NAMED DREAM, via LUCKYME® on the 04th August

To say a lot has happened to Nathan Micay since the release of ‘Blue Spring’ four years ago is an understatement. Since the Canada native turned Berghain-regular made the short jump from Berlin to Copenhagen after the pandemic, he’s been holed up in a derelict studio complex adorned with the graffiti of countless raves, sat upon toxic land contaminated with mercury. It’s there that Nathan has created a new studio to immerse himself in consecutive acclaimed soundtracks: multiple seasons of BBC award-winning drama ‘Industry’, the upcoming HBO post-Trump feature ‘Reality’ starring Sydney Sweeney, and the anticipated HBO Original Documentary ‘Time Bomb Y2K’ to name but a few. His meteoric rise in the world of scoring has forced a break from the DJ circuit, but new tracks have debuted as VIPs through the sets of respected DJ peers Peach and Avalon Emerson, with clips from this album already closing-out festival stages to packed crowds. Having sharpened his proverbial sword he returns with his most ambitious offering yet, his new album ‘To The God Named Dream’ is set for release via LUCKYME® on 04th August…

Out now, the new single ‘It’s Recess Everywhere’ hears Micay bring a fresh slice of Sampledelia, a classic collage approach to dance music stitching together live banjo duelling with breaks and rave vocals. A fresh & optimistic sound for festivals this summer, he had this to say on it,

“‘It’s Recess Everywhere’ was the first time I ever got to use my banjo. It turned into this exploration of childhood and that feeling of anxiety you can sometimes remember from even back then”.

‘To The God Named Dream’ takes inspiration from classic RPGs to present a haunted library record for the large language age. No longer solely gearing his music for clubs has proven a revelation for Micay.

“I listened to a lot of pop through the pandemic from Taylor Swift, Caroline Polachek, and ‘Rain’-era Madonna, I wanted to synthesize these references with my score work and downtempo and club music” he explains.

The result is a record equally at home in earphones as a PA. From the title down to every detail of the artwork, ‘To The God Named Dream’ represents a cursed library record, possessed by an interdimensional intelligence ripping through the sleeve. The vinyl art contains an original multiplayer board game, designed by LUCKYME® to accompany the album.

“Jumanji meets Hellraiser,” enthuses Micay. “… a lot of electronic music became very serious and lacked any sense of character. Any sense of humour. I’m often invited to evoke heavy emotion and melodrama in my score work and I think this naturally pushed my own music towards something altogether different” he continues. “… Live banjo. Live breakbeats. 808 bass hits. Trance synths. Sounds gross but these things are part of me and have their place here. If you want orthodox Dance Music™ there’s a lot of it out there already. This isn’t for a cue sheet. This one’s for me”.

Toronto-born Micay broke through with the release of his remake of the Akira soundtrack ‘Capsule’s Pride’, before releasing his debut EP in 2018 on esteemed label AD93 (formerly Whities), and quickly saw lead track ‘First Casualty’ become one of the biggest hits of the dance music circuit. He followed up with his debut album ‘Blue Spring’ on LUCKYME®, becoming a landmark release that fused modern trance, electronica, and techno. The supplemental EP ‘Butterfly Arcane’ saw him double down on the dance floor, while his DJ career blossomed, playing across the UK, Europe & Asia. However, in 2020 Nathan truly arrived when showrunners for a forthcoming HBO debut, Industry, fell in love with the song ‘Blue Spring’ and committed this unproven composer to their fledgling show. The work put Nathan on the radar of The New York Times, Vox, and The New Yorker. Nathan then dropped the surprise release ‘The World I’m Going to Hell For’ created entirely with string instruments and limited electronics, expanding Micay’s vocabulary and bridging the gap from score to club music.

With a flurry of prestigious commissions imminent, ‘To The God Named Dream’ sees Nathan Micay stretch out with a post-modern masterpiece. A generational talent coming into his own, taking risks, and having fun. We dare you to roll the dice.

Nathan Micay – It’s Recess Everywhere via iTunes/Spotify

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