NÆ’s debut album push button future is your dance pop road trip.
ABout NÆ
Enter the captivating and clever world of NÆ, Chicago-based synth pop and electronic artist. Her music satirizes the absurdities of American aspirational lifestyles – think unicorn parties, sugary coffee drinks, and sexting. NÆ’s debut album, ‘Push Button Future’, has been applauded as “a dance-pop confection with a biting edge, commenting on modern-day issues of consumerism, commercialism, and influencer culture,” by Scapi Magazine. Her sharp wit and humor are balanced with levity, imagination, and a cosmic effervescence.
Producer, mixing engineer, and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Black performs on stage with NÆ as her co-pilot, “Blizz”, and is her core collaborator in the writing and recording process. Black’s production leans heavily into both his sound design experience and jazz influence.
Hot off the heels of their recent performances as a featured artists at the Sound & Vision Synth Series in Rochester, NY, The Performing Arts Series at University of Minnesota Morris, House of Vans Chicago, and The 150 Media Stream in Chicago, NÆ and Blizz recently released their full-length dark pop cinematic album, ‘Isolazen’ and their evolving soundscape live performance, ‘Temporal Biomes’.
From 2020-2022, NÆ and Blizz hosted a live, episodic TV show on YouTube called "Saturnae: Orbital Ice Cream". The duo performed with original music, improvisation, and a delightfully campy narrative about collecting ice cream recipes from planets across the Universe. Through interviews with experts, and the show itself, NÆ and Blizz deliver a powerful message about the importance of art, science, and culture in the midst of capitalist systems. The cosmic adventures, mishaps, and characters from the show are part and parcel to NÆ’s live, in-person stage performances.
NÆ is the persona of visual artist JaNae Contag.