Wetware

Hailing from Brooklyn, Wetware produces a fiercely aggressive and jittery strain of experimental industrial techno. Onstage, vocalist and performance artist Roxy Farman thrashes, yells, and moves straight into the audience, while Matt Morandi unleashes streams of sharp, irregular beats through modular synthesizers. Their recorded work, including the 2020 album Flail, matches this sense of disorder and abrasion.

Before the pair formed in 2015, Morandi had already issued abstract techno as Jahiliyya Fields and joined Max Ravitz (aka Patricia) in Inhalants; both projects appeared on Ron Morelli’s respected L.I.E.S. imprint. Once their live shows attracted notice, Primitive Languages put out Wetware’s self-titled debut cassette in 2016. Salpinx, a 12" EP on BANK Records NYC, followed in 2017. That year Farman also contributed to albums by Hiro Kone and former Coil member Drew McDowall. Dais Records released the duo’s first full-length, Automatic Drawing, in 2018, with the still more frantic and forceful Flail arriving two years later.