wev’s sound is equal parts a product of 90s video games, the renegade internet and America’s deep house lineage. It’s music for both the body and the mind.

Filled with pixelated melodies and swung drums, his drums and bassline often have the immediacy, crunch, and stomach punch of UK club music - touching on breaks, UK garage, and bass - while his melodies use vintage 90s house production techniques like resampling harmonies. It’s a range that is staggering in its reach, but even more remarkable for how consistent his music sounds whether he is turning out breaks or house. There is an innate playfulness to the way he builds out harmonies while his low-ends play with bass weight that sits somewhere between Chicago and Croydon. 

Central to wev’s artistry is his time spent growing up completely immersed in the exploration of video games. Hailing from the sprawling suburbs of Silicon Valley without any immediate connection to underground dance music culture, video games were wev’s creative and electronic frontier. More than the games themselves, what he loved was the music. The synthetic skylines punctured by 16 -bit drum programming and tapestries of synths in those games led wev to the early corners of the internet where he began to discover a whole other world of sound: from pirated fabric CDs to YouTube playlists of early 2000s techno. 

wev dug deeper into dance music's history after traveling through Europe. Hopping between the woodfloor of Paris's infamous Concrete and dipping in and out of clubs across Berlin and London, he quickly realized that this was his calling. He took this experience home with him and committed himself to learn mixing and producing, while also diving deeper into the American roots of dance music. 

Since debuting the wev moniker in 2018, he's turned out Billie Eilish edits that have been played out by Disclosure, crafted dubby late night anthems remixed by John Tejada, joined production forces with UK producer and Kaytranada collaborator Lauren Faith, and has captured the attentions of fashion designers including Marc Jacobs, with a recent sync for the brand’s 90s referencing Heaven line and a forthcoming production picked up by Pharrell for his Billionaire Boys Club line. 

wev's artist aspirations transcend music production. Like the video games that are so central to his sonic vocabulary, he also wants to create worlds for his fans to get lost in. His background in visual arts underlines this point - his tracks are made vibrant with visualizations from his close friend Nam Mac (@lordstingray) and his website even includes an interactive XR component he learned to build himself. This penchant for world building is influenced by his time spent in Tokyo and projects with collaborators like Nam have helped him build this exploration into his sound. This dialogue with Japan is not one-sided: he's already been tapped for guest mixes by Japan's BlockFM and MixMag Japan ran a rare feature on a foreign artist last year. 

With releases in the works with the legendary A-Trak and sold out parties in some of Brooklyn's most discerning venues, wev's castles in the sky are only getting more crystalline.