WEN aka Owen Darby describes his new album EPHEM:ERA on Big Dada as “electronic studies — a sequence mapped out across the fringes of experimental club music…”

WEN once again focuses his techno periscope on the limitless opportunities offered up by garage, grime, hardcore and jungle production and hits top marks for sheer, fresh inventiveness within the confines of his sound. This is evident from the raucous Zomby style techno of GRIT to the fittingly waterlogged RAIN, which could be the sound of Wiley's Ground Zero dubplate submerged in a flooded basement flat. The tones throughout give off the feeling of harsh needle edged stabs that are constantly puncturing holes within any preconceptions of what you may expect the next track to sound like. Landing fully loaded with icy melodies that hang over the rolling post-garage beats, this is the sort of music you’d expect to soundtrack some nightmarish future shock robotic uprising during a nuclear winter of grime and techno.