Nathan Micay shows his ‘Fangs’ plus new RPG-inspired album set for the summer

Soundtrack king Micay’s first album for four years coming soon

Nathan Micay, the Toronto-born Berghain regular who broke through with the release of his remake of the Akira soundtrack Capsule’s Pride, is to release the long awaited follow up to 2019’s Blue Spring LP this summer.

To The God Named Dream takes inspiration from classic RPGs (role playing games) to present “a haunted library record for the large language age”.

“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,”  Micay said, with a view to a records as much at home on 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 though the sleeve. The vinyl art contains an original multiplayer board game, designed by LUCKYME® to accompany the album. 

“Jumanji meets Hellraiser,” enthuses Micay of the game. “… 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. 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”.

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 making 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.

‘Fangs’, the album’s first teaser, surfaced last week, along with news of the digital release via LUCKYME® on May 31

The album is available to pre-order on double vinyl, limited clear double vinyl and CD ahead of release on July 28.