01 – Wigs – High Velocity

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More Wigs? G’warn the. Now with weighty releases under his belt with 39 Rec and GODDEZZ, plus consistent support for his tunez coming from the likes of Eoin DJ, momentum is building for the young UK producer and it looks like the sky is the limit for his potential. Wigs and Neptune Discs both collide in parallel label and artist projection. Founder, Astro has been quietly stamping his authority on the Prog/Trance scene for a minute, pumping out EP’s left n’ right, and attracting some wicked names to the fold including Jeku, Tifra, Biodive and DJ Life. Wigs now returns to Neptune Discs for his second outing on the label, and his ‘Night Watch EP’ provides his most dangerous cuts to date, shifting the BPM into the upper echelons with four big-room warpers that promise total immersive enclosure and heightened senses.

‘High Velocity’ embodies the high-octane, peak-time instinct of the EP. A pouncing prog rocket that wastes no time in making its presence known. Surging with its predatory bass and Catherine wheel of lucid synth-lines, each one blasts like shards of colour, overlapping to create a totally hypnotic experience. Wigs also injects some sharp Congo percussion and native vox to heighten its tribalistic purpose, and feeling that you are completely amongst the elements. ‘Substance’ encapsulates an end-of-set vibrancy. Dancefloor energy levels are in the latter stages of their embers, but there’s still enough in the tank for one last motion onslaught. It’s funkier than its predecessor, and is the kind of track that you can feel the groove circulating through your veins, fully locked into the moment and rising into the ascendancy as the swift hats sweep you off your feet.

‘Night Watch’ accelerates back into the raw and functional territory as ‘High Velocity’, producing another wall crawler that epitomises the dark dynamism of the EP. 90’s ravers talk about how you don’t hear those power-tool warehouse weapons anymore, but the rising prog scene is an instant transportation back to a halcyon time for music where it was all about the energy, colour and danceability. ‘Night Watch’ captures all of that in abundance, primed for a low-ceiling sweaty wall tear-out to push the speakers to their limits. ‘Ice Valley’ wraps up the EP with one final sub-heavy missile. The energy levels remain at unforgiving heights, and this one is probably the menacing of the lot thanks to its tense breakdown. Striping the vibe to its exoskeleton, Wigs expertly builds tension as nerve-racking synths and the angelic vox murmur to great effect, before unleashing into another monster bassline to conclude this gritty EP’s final act.

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