Nathan Micay

Hailing originally from Toronto but now residing in Copenhagen, producer and DJ Nathan Micay fashions exploratory electronic music steeped in science-fiction aesthetics together with atmospheric scores for television. He surfaced initially during the early 2010s under the alias Bwana, offering a distinctive approach to post-dubstep and house. Shedding that moniker in 2018 allowed his style to develop into intricate layers of ambient trance and progressive breaks, first showcased on the 2019 debut album Blue Spring. Following an emphasis on string arrangements throughout the 2020 follow-up The World I'm Going to Hell For, he turned toward scoring a hybrid orchestral soundtrack for the HBO series Industry. The playful, breakbeat-driven album To the God Named Dream appeared in 2023.

Known early on as Bwana, he issued club-oriented tracks drawing from garage and deep house via labels such as Aus and 17 Steps, alongside the well-received 2016 album The Capsule's Pride, which centered on samples drawn from the anime classic Akira. His initial release under his own name arrived in 2018 on the Whities imprint, steering the music toward melodic, house-inflected electronics reminiscent of Throwing Snow and Max Cooper. Later that same year the techno- and electro-oriented single Never Rhythm Game surfaced on ESP Institute. Butterfly Arcane followed in 2019 on LuckyMe, further dissolving lines between house, techno, and electro while previewing the approach heard on Blue Spring. Issued the same year, that debut album unified elements from all prior work into richly detailed electronic pieces.

The more ambient and cinematic The World I'm Going to Hell For arrived in 2020, relying chiefly on string instruments. Micay also supplied the score for HBO's Industry, with the first-season soundtrack appearing in 2020 and the second in 2022. Additional compositions were written for The Last Bus and the docu-drama Reality. After moving from his previous base in Berlin to Copenhagen, he unveiled the third album To the God Named Dream in 2023. That record draws from science fiction and library music, weaving in trance and jungle influences along with his own banjo contributions.