Inside wev’s World, A Journey Through Video Game Dreams to Dancefloor Euphoria

wev describes his creative process as being entirely dependent on “flow state,” a concept that feels as much psychological as it is artistic.

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In a Brooklyn studio filled with art books, toy figurines, and videogame memorabilia, wev is chasing a feeling he’s known since childhood, the kind you don’t learn so much as recognize when it finally finds you. “I could hear it in my head,” he says, describing the earliest days of trying to make music. “But I didn’t know what it was.” 

Back then, he didn’t have the language for it. Growing up in the Bay Area, long before he moved to New York, his musical world was shaped less by clubs and more by the vast world of video games through nights spent inside the glowing universes of his Nintendo 64 and GameCube soundtracks. The music wasn’t just background noise; it seeped into him, creating a soundtrack for his inner life. When he finally sat down to produce beats, those sounds poured into his musical landscape, which felt playful and true to him. 

A mentor and friend, producer Andrew Luce, listened as wev tried to explain the sound he was chasing. “He was like, ‘No one will know what the fuck you’re talking about,’” wev recalls laughing. “But I was basically describing house music. I just didn’t know it yet.” 

That realization didn’t arrive all at once. It slowly revealed itself, especially after his move to New York, where the city’s dance culture helped him connect the dots between childhood memory and his present life. The transportive melodies that he had absorbed through video games suddenly had a name. 

There’s something charmingly honest about the way he talks about his work. He’s less interested in defining it than in protecting its origin. While sitting in his studio, he drifted through references and the deep history of the genres he holds. His knowledge and care for music are evident, and his eyes light up with each deep dive he gets into. His love for the world he has dove into is clear, not just in the music, but in the care and respect he shows when talking about it. 

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His music drifts between house, jungle, Jersey Club, and breaks, but those labels feel secondary. What matters more is the emotional core, a joy that feels both euphoric and intimate, like stumbling into a hidden level you didn’t know existed. 

That sense of play is no accident. wev describes his creative process as being entirely dependent on “flow state,” a concept that feels as much psychological as it is artistic. It’s a feeling he first learned through gaming: total immersion, time dissolving, instinct taking over. He chases that same feeling while making music, and it comes through when he dives into making a beat. He loses himself in the track and lets the sound shape itself into something that is true to what he is feeling in that moment. 

“My job isn’t to make a certain genre,” he explains. “My job is to get into that state and capture whatever’s there. It's really about using my own lens, based on my own experience, to bring this inspiration into focus. As well as seeing where that intersects with cultural through line within the scene.” 

When it clicks, it’s immediate. From there, he works quickly, building out entire tracks in a single session before the moment fades. He returns to them later, not to reinvent, but to refine. For him, patience is a part of the art, letting the music reveal itself to him as time passes. 

Many of the tracks on his debut album were created three, even five years ago. He lets them sit untouched until they can stand outside the moment they were made. “If I come back to something years later and it still feels true,” he says, “then I know it has something.” 

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That philosophy extends beyond sound. wev’s creative world is expansive, almost tactile. He collaborates closely with his friend Nam, an animator whose visual language mirrors his sonic one, playful, character-driven, and slightly surreal. Together, they’ve built an evolving universe around the music, from 3D visuals to an upcoming animated short film accompanying the album. 

“We’re just expanding the world,” he says. Even his studio reflects that ethos. It’s less a workspace than a landscape of inspiration filled with objects he’s collected through the year, building the fantastical world that makes him who he is. 

Although much of his inspiration is rooted in the narrative, he is interested in exploring duality through his new album. How can you mix the authenticity of our souls through the lens of technology? And then there’s the live element, arguably where his music reveals its truest form. For a long time, wev hesitated to play his own tracks in DJ sets, unsure how they would land. It wasn’t until a recent tour that something shifted. 

“I realized people were there to hear my music,” he says. “It sounds obvious, but it changed everything.” His sets have now become a testing ground where unfinished songs meet real people in motion. A track might soar in one room and falter in another, exposing subtle flaws in rhythm or energy. He studies those reactions closely and uses them to shape the final version.

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At one point, he even brought early demos into a house dance studio in New York and watched how dancers responded in real time. He studied how they moved to the music and went back to the studio to refine his tracks using what he learned. 

“It tells you everything,” he says. He compares the club experience to a game and to a highly personal experience. Through the collective, you experience a cathartic personal experience, getting lost in the music and the world that your imagination frees itself to. 

With his debut album, you can feel the sense of freedom that comes through years of touring, collaborating, and finding the sounds that express what's hidden inside. It’s a delicate balance of honoring what made you and what you will become. The album is a celebration of years of collaboration, with tracks featuring collaborators such as frau, Yoshi T, scruz, and isaacgsw. It’s true to wev, and the worlds we create within ourselves. It’s time to take a step into the wide world of wev, and the journey is just beginning.