Commotion EP

On paper, Commotion—the Keysound debut of London producer Owen Darby (a.k.a Wen)—doesn't come across as anything particularly unique. Darby makes music at 130 bpm, but with one foot firmly planted in the dark spaciousness of classic dubstep. Like countless other young producers breaking out of the UK right now, his productions owe an unabashed debt to vintage grime. Each of the four tracks here rides along on patchwork of square-wave synth sounds and cold percussive noises pinched whole...

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