After years of releasing music and touring with his band The Acid, Steve Nalepa returns with a new solo LP ​Thoughtforms.​ Across 11 tracks, the album finds arpeggiating synths colliding with shimmering effects, waves of droning shoegaze and jacking Chicago house beats. The songs began as live takes in the studio, Nalepa running his extensive collection of synths through an arsenal of delays, reverbs and loopers. The tracks alternate between lush, hypnotic drifters and textured, ambient techno. All the songs were written, produced, mixed and mastered by Nalepa with videos for each song from an all-star cast of artists. The only additional musical contributor is The Distiller’s guitar virtuoso Tony Bevilacqua, Nalepa’s bandmate in Airspace.

Californian polymath Steve Nalepa is known for his vast and eclectic array of artistic collaborators, a key node in the electronic music scene cultivated through years of creating music and producing events. Together with Ry X and Adam Freeland he releases music and tours with his band The Acid (Infectious/Mute), creates cinematic drone as Airspace (Mute), and helped launch esteemed beat collective TeamSupreme as one of the founding members. He’s published award-winning art books through the self-launched Dilettante Press, scored several feature-length documentary films and devised/engineered Ableton Live rigs for such acts as Blood Orange, Nick Murphy, Drake and The Weeknd.

Thoughtforms LP

This song is part of a 22 track compilation we whipped together with all proceeds going toward the legal fees for our homie Mike from Penthouse Penthouse. He was charged with a ridiculous offense for just trying to get his music equipment after a party they played was broken up, and he is now facing steep legal fees to clear his record. Please support if you can by clicking on the Buy link. Thanks!

Pachinko

Early ambient productions from 10+ years ago

Drifting

Vapor

Autumn

Seattle Flight

Available July 1 on @beatteamsupreme

Bandcamp: https://nalepa.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-of-one

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Paradise Of One (feat. Jimetta Rose)

Feel - Nalepa + William Arcane

My Team Supreme Stay Clean! My flip of @daedelus accordion and other bits for the MF Doom / Madlib joint on Madvillainy. Just so glad to see our @beatteamsupreme crew back at it again, so much creativity on this one. Full beat tape available here:
https://soundcloud.com/beatteamsupreme/teamsupreme-recharged-vol-2-feat-daedelus

NALEPA TS Vol.2

3 Fren Hens, 2 Turtle Ducks and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

@miloraps &
@open-mike-eagle &
@islands &
@kennysegal &
@driverdriverdriverdriverdriverdriverdriverdriver
@nalepa

Beats by Nalepa. Raps by Milo & Open Mike Eagle. Guitar and chorus by Nick Diamonds. Executive produced by Busdriver and Kenny Segal.

Another One Of Mine

Be Right Back

Aperture

Rhizome

Caterpillars

Whirlpools

Climbing

Living Systems

Materialization

Sleepy Eyes

A Study of Dreams

Active Imagination

Thoughtforms

Liquid Sunshine is a slice of melancholic IDM reminiscent of Flatlands era Nalepa stylings. A bonus track accompaniment to Thoughtforms LP, the video highlights our inherent and interconnected fragility and dependence on nature by showing it feeding back on itself.

Liquid Sunshine

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Daytime

Glow

Night Bloom

Ovni

Flora Fauna

Steve Nalepa is an electronic musician, multimedia artist, paranormal news researcher, art book publisher & mad scientist collector based in Los Angeles. @beatteamsupreme @the-acid-sounds

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