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01. WEN - Intro (Family) (CD-only)
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02. WEN - Galactic
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03. WEN - Lunar (feat. Blackdown)
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04. WEN - You Know (CD-only)
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05. WEN - Persian
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06. WEN - Swingin' (LDN Mix)
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07. WEN - Vampin' (CD-only)
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08. WEN - Time (feat. Parris)
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09. WEN - In
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10. WEN - Signal (CD-only)
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11. WEN - Nightcrawler (Devils Mix)
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12. WEN - Play Your Corner (feat. Riko)
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ARTIST
WEN
TITLE
Signals
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
KEYSOUND RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
LDN 044CD
LDN 044CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
4/1/2014
Meet
Wen
, the 22 year-old production prodigy with his own bass-heavy sound built on a pulsing rhythmic backbone, a nuanced sense of environmental texture, and coded vocal samples that interject like pulses. You could call the latter "signals." The album begins by building a space, setting the mood; settling into the kind of textures and temperament not often heard since the very earliest era of dubstep -- long before Wen's time. "Galactic," resurrected from a corrupted Fruity Loops file on a lost hard drive, is ethereal
Blade Runner
grime. "Lunar," which features Keysound label boss
Blackdown
, is a Detroit-style night drive through Babylon. Like a breaking storm, the album builds in power and intensity. At almost exactly the mid-point -- during the bouncy but otherwise warm 4x4 garage relick of "Swingin'" -- the calm is punctured. Often sampled from dense London slang and live pirate radio, these are Wen's heavy signals; weighed down with coded nuance. Power, locale, identity, intent, inequality, sexuality, gender, diversity, energy: all are regular themes of these encoded pirate transmissions. "Vampin'" leads you into a hot afterhours club scene full of complex, interpersonal power dynamics of those living for the weekend.
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