Wa Wu We
It’s Friday so we’re listening to something more upbeat. Today we’re listening to Wa Wu We, an electronic music project from Swedish artist Sebastian Mullaert. We found his music on Philip Sherburne’s recent dub techno set. Mullaert grew up in southern Sweden in the small town of Hässleholm. His dad played a lot of ‘70s psychedelic synth records (Tangerine Dream, Harmonia, Can) which ignited a lifelong fascination with electronic music.1 In his original music, he channels feelings from nature – particularly the forests surrounding his studio outside Malmö – into machine instrumentation.2 We’re playing the extended version of the 2020 Wa Wu We LP, 108 Dimensions of Green, which is mostly ambient techno, with steady kicks, mellow synths, and rich atmospheres.
108 Dimensions of Green (Extended Version) - Wa Wu We (141m, vocal utterances on tracks 7, 9, and 10)
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Have a superb weekend.
Loving this so much, thank you.
This idea of channeling forest environments through synthesizers is facinating. There's something about the way natural rhythms and electronic production overlap that creates this unique headspace, like the machine is translating organic patterns rather than replacing them. I've noticed ambient techno works best when theres that push-pull between the steady kick and these floating atmospheric layers. The extended version format makes total sense for this type of immersion.