![]() That beautiful time when house, trance and whatever else all seemed to cross over for a brief moment. It’s all quite trancey but in a lighter sense of the word. I went to a friend’s with a bag of 40 records and a few tracks on a USB and recorded it in an afternoon (then nudged some volumes in Ableton). This time I decided to keep it real simple. My last studio mix was for Resident Advisor in January and I feel like I might’ve gone a bit hard on that one and focused on tricks over tracks. What can you tell us about this mix you’ve recorded for us? Any special tracks you would like to mention? I was very nervous about it but it was quite liberating to just say “Hey, I’m Nathan”. I decided to take a note from one of my musical heroes, Mica Levi, and just put it all under one umbrella. I’d also began to do more and more work in film under my own name. I felt like the music I had coming on Whities, ESP and LuckyMe was all very coherent compared to what I’d released by that point. Tell us about why that shift came about, and how your approach might differ now to your earlier work? I see you retired your former alias Bwana around 2018, before launching the first of two EPs under your own name on Whities and ESP Institute. I tend to remember something with a concept and strong visual themes. Beyond that, I just feel if you’re going to put all this work into an album, why not really go for it ya know? There is so much music out today and it’s so easy to fall through the cracks. On the one hand, we wanted to contribute something to the anime/manga community after using so much of Akira on Capsule’s Pride in 2016. What was the idea there? Did you try to create the album as manga soundtrack of sorts? I know you also wrote a script for the manga inspired artwork for the release, with the comic unveiled piece by piece on your website. My ultimate goal with the album was to make something that felt cohesive and conceptual, while still offering a couple bangerz 4 the DJ’z. FSOL, Northern Exposure etc.but with hopefully a more modern twist. ![]() The entire thing was very influenced by the music coming out around the time of Castple Morton Festival in 1993. So one night I wrote a story idea and with a theme in mind everything came together quite easily after that. Eventually Dom from the label had the idea of a comic book and building on our previous collaboration ‘Capsule’s Pride’. I tried to be a bit too artsy or avant garde for my own good on attempts 1 & 2. The final product there was actually my third attempt at completing the album. Tell us a bit more about the process of making that album, what music you were inspired by and what you hoped to achieve with your first LP. Never seen anything like it! You released your debut album Blue Spring on the rather prolific LuckyMe imprint earlier this year, seeking what you describe as a “sweet-spot between prog, trance, techno, hardcore, jungle, IDM and ambient”. Outside of tha club, came across a herd (is this the correct term?) of white kangaroos. I’d say House of Mince in Sydney and Revolver in Melbourne were both been pretty damn memorable. There’s such a contagious energy and every party just seems to get better and better. Things are great! I absolutely loved it down there. Hey Nathan, how’s things? You were just down here on tour in Australia the other week, how did that all go? What were some of the highlights? We caught up with the producer formerly known as Bwana to chat about his latest manga inspired concept album for LuckyMe and the shift to making music under his own name. TracklistĠ5.Fresh off the back of some deejay business in Aus over the past few weeks, Canadian Berliner Nathan Micay leaves us with a parting gift in the form of one of his notoriously killer blends, weaving heavenly tech house and electro with mellow trance cuts from days gone by. For example, the upcoming Moonshake Records release of the original Pokemon game soundtrack on vinyl and Materia Collective’s Final Fantasy VII remix compilation are every 80s and 90s kid’s dream come true in a musical sense. ![]() For Bwana to take on a fresh perspective on the original is quite a feat.Īrtists nowadays can draw inspiration from other forms of art like film or video games, as there is a fascination for reintroducing an emotionally heavy nostalgic value. The film has garnered an international cult following and has a high established rank in the world of artistic achievement. Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 Akira is considered to be one of greatest science fiction animated films ever produced. The nine track EP will drop on March 26 through the LuckyMe label, and a free download of the EP will be available once the release comes around. FebruBwana Reimagines Akira Soundtrack With Techno-Futurist Perspectiveīwana will release a highly anticipated “techno-retro-futurist” take on the original soundtrack by Shoji Yamashiro for the classic anime film Akira.
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