subcon is a california based records label | musician collective | remix team | 32-track digital studio | analogue synthesizer collection.

originally established as subconscious records in vancouver, 1993 by skinny puppy keyboardist dwayne goettel and download/off and gone keyboardist phil western - for the release of a limited edition 12" single by his solo techno project aDuck, with western on the b side as phylth. it was revived and slightly renamed in 1995 by goettel and his skinny puppy bandmate cEvin key, for the release of material by their new project dOWNLOAD.

following goettels' death in august of that year, key continued the operations of subconscious along with anthony valcic, phil western, and an extended crew of collaborators and friends that have included: ken marshall, ryan moore, and mark spybey.