An indie-rock frontman and a house producer making a unique blend of their influences
Half of the Subwilder set — twelve tracks of dusk-toned melodic house, from slow-burn openers to peak-hour tracks.
Sessions is the listening link we only share through venue and show promotions — a doorway into tour world, not an official release on streaming platforms. The singles below are the release-ready material.
Original + Collabs with Namito & DOBe
The lyrics to this track were inspired by that invisible weight that keeps piling on your shoulders, while the endless feed continues to scroll, leading you further and further away from yourself. It’s a call to put down the weight, even for a moment, and get out on the dancefloor for some primal therapy. The song isn’t a dismissal of reality but rather a temporary permission slip to set the burden down. Featuring a thick, electro-funk bass line that bounces forward, leading up to a drop filled with joyous synth stabs.
“The weight holds you back, so leave it all.”
Leave It All — promo
Namito road-testing the Collab version
DOBe on the remix in the studio
Original mix
A song for that transition between day and night and the renewed sense of determination that can be initiated from a simple change in light. It focuses on those moments where disappointment can turn into possibility, depending on how the light hits it; how you look at it. It continually builds throughout, adding new melodic and rhythmic elements that feel like an army that has formed behind you.
“Tonight we could pay all the fines on our souls.”
Original mix
Neverending is an energetic portrait of the pitfalls of giving up too much of your present to focus on healing from the past. There’s something to be said about working on yourself, but there comes a moment when living in the present can begin to slip away. Healing can be both something sacred and necessary to move forward but also a tunnel with no end. Anchored by a repetitious guitar riff, this track was the kickoff that started the duo itself. A reminder to stay in the present.
“I’m no match for the force that she’s falling, hold her back we won’t know her by morning.”
Subwilder is a convergence of distant orbits — a visual artist with roots in the post-punk and indie scene, and a sound engineer shaped by global dance floors and the dust of Burning Man. What began as an unlikely union has become a shared pursuit of something both primal and transcendent.
Their music pulses with shadow and shimmer — melodic house driven by a groove that is chasing the infinite horizon, charting the tensions of isolation and connection, the physical and the ethereal. Vocal hooks mesmerize in a poetic battle between the guiding voice in your heart and the chaotic thoughts of your brain — a Beatnik incantation living inside a terrain of hypnotic sub bass grooves.
It stopped being an experiment the first time the tracks met a crowd — faces changing, bodies moving, strangers asking where to catch the next show. Performance as connection, and connection as purpose.
Voice, guitar, words. Painter turned post-punk troubadour — writes the lyrics and toplines; carries the lyrics on stage.
Production, engineering, live electronics. Builds the sonic terrain and drives it live from a hardware rig.
Not a DJ set. Live vocals, live guitar and hardware-driven electronics — a real performance with a frontman, dynamics, and a visual story on stage.
Nate — voice, guitar, words. Martin — production, engineering, live electronics. Two performers, one sound.
60–120 minute live sets — adaptable from opening slot to headliner. Compact two-person rig, fast changeover.
Rooted in the Burning Man community across NYC, Boston and SF — for a crowd looking for melodic house with a soul.
About 15 shows and hybrid DJ sets since Subwilder started performing in 2025. Selected examples:
Bloom Phest · The Basement Project, Cambridge — Subwilder (live)
LoveStrukk × Basement Project, Cambridge — live on a bill headlined by El Mundo & Zazou
Beverly Grillz, Black Rock City — hybrid live at the Feed the Animalz party