Nathan Etes is an independent artist, producer, songwriter, and audio engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin. His music moves between electronic, alternative, experimental pop, rock, and R&B, and it’s built on contrast: dreamy, atmospheric textures sitting beside distortion and raw emotional intensity.
Nathan began making music as an outlet during a difficult stretch in public school. After learning piano, cello, and flute, he saved up for a MacBook, taught himself Logic Pro, and never stopped building. He founded Etes Entertainment LLC at 14 after attending a leadership conference for music production and the music industry at UCLA, and he graduated high school at 16.
Today, through A1 Records, he writes, produces, records, and releases his own music, along with the visuals that go with it, drawing on DIY design, vintage imagery, and film grain. His sophomore album, OSCILLATIONS, is built on analog synthesis and hardware synths like the ASM Hydrasynth, Sequential Take 5, and Oberheim OB-Xa, and it’s arriving in 2027. The single “THE GANZFELD EFFECT” arrives November 6.
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UPCOMING:
“THE GANZFELD EFFECT” is a genre-bending, hypnotic, and dreamy song arriving November 6. Nathan wrote it during a painful breakup in June, when his feelings went unheard and unvalidated, and he turned that anger and those impulses into something listenable instead of acting on them. The line “I just wanna be your killer, put you in the basement freezer” captures the anger and frustration he was dealing with at the time.
“I don’t forgive people who show no remorse or humility after treating me awfully, and it upsets me that some people will never admit they’re wrong,” says Nathan. “It’s not a healthy way of living, but instead of making irrational decisions in the heat of it, I write. It’s a lot easier to get all your intentions out and let God deal with the rest.”
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