Sat 01 Feb
WEN (DJ Set): JSPHYNX After Party (IVW 2025)
About this event
Join us after the excellent live show with Jsphynx — continuing on the party into the night with a DJ set with Wen.
Owen Darby, otherwise known by his producer alias Wen, grew up in Ramsgate, and he always looked to the capital — and its bustling pirate radio scene of the late 2000s — for inspiration.
His outsider takes on garage and grime saw him develop a sound that, for many, tapped into the spirit of early dubstep. He re-imagined the genre’s iconic sounds within colder, darker and more danceable settings. Classic grime vocals were condensed into seconds-long snippets that he’d loop, each acting as a primer to the incoming beat — a producer quip that quickly became his calling card.
Wen released his debut EP, Commotion, in 2013 on Keysound Recordings. It proved to be the launchpad for his critically-acclaimed debut album, Signals — an album Resident Advisor described as, “danceable as hell, but also relentlessly dark,” — followed by another 12” for Keysound, this time a white label cut of his remarkable flip of Dizzee Rascal’s “Strings Hoe.” He held a residency DJ slot on Rinse FM whilst putting out a string of records for Tempa, Tectonic, Wisdom Teeth and Soundman Chronicles leading into his sophomore album, Ephemera, on NinjaTunes Big Dada label. Since 2020, Wen has released EPs on GD4YA alongside like-minded producers El‑B, SP:MC and Plastician — seeing Wen go full circle, with a fresh spin on the garage and 2‑step sound that sparked his early forays into production.
(Ticket holders for JSPHYNX show, do not need to purchase an after party ticket to stay!)
Schedule
- 10:35 AM
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