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@gwenans' rise through the ranks has always been driven by a love for the music. She hasn't produced any big breakout hit and never dreamt of headlining on a super-sized main stage. Instead, she has quietly honed her craft playing at intimate London parties like Toi Toi and her own Hi Fi, made a successful move to Berlin where she fomented close ties with cultured crews like The Ghost and impressed with her pitch-perfect sets as a resident at London's Pickle Factory as well as the beloved Freerotation in her native Wales. Her sound is rooted in house and techno that is deep and kinetic, but it can stretch way beyond and into a world of leftfield electronics and heady ambient. 

On this week's mix, Gwenan does what she does best: establishes a groove your body can't resist then slowly tweaks and builds on it for 80 minutes. There are never any big left turns or flashy tracks, just a well-sequenced, neatly mixed and super-tight selection of irresistibly good records. Some go heavy on the bass, some twist and turn on a cosmic synth and some have a machine-made soul that warms you to your core.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 357 - Gwenan

fresh new mix for our podcast series straight from Gwenan, a London based vinyl enthusiast that we had the chance to meet and recently listen in a special session with Andrew James Gustav at Dialogue, wicked intimate party for true music lovers... You can hear more of Gwenan's music at our next after party! :)

enjoy listening xx


https://soundcloud.com/gwenans

Undersound Podcast 012 - Gwenan

Eurorack system // DSI Evolver // Dreadbox Komorebi // TC Electronic Brainwaves pitch shifter // Electro Harmonix Tone Corset & Analogizer // Boss RV-6 // FMR Audio RNC

Recorded live at MaHalla, Berlin
Mastered by Francesco Salvadori at SWEEP Audio, Berlin

Gwenan - Live at Sanctum of Sound, November 2023

A tribute to the artists of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop of the 50s-90s and likeminded musicians and sound lovers around the world 

https://soundcloud.com/gwenans

Gwenan - somewhere in mid-Glamorgan (SNR006) [Snare Trade]
Daphne Oram - Pulse Persephone (Oramics) [Paradigm Discs]
Manuka - I (Tape Shaping) [Dead Definition]
Fahmi Mursyid - Dentum (Bonang) (One Instrument Sessions 03) [One Instrument)]
Louis and Bebe Barron - Love At The Swimming Hole (Forbidden Planet) [Planet Records]
Daphne Oram - Episode Metalic (Oramics) [Paradigm Discs]
phase space - Loper (Degrees of Freedom) [Phase Space]
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Four Bebe (Tracks for Delia Derbyshire) [Conspiracy International]
K.S.U. - Free Interpretation 5 (A Starfish Surfacing At Night To Mirror Itself In The Sky (Is Just As Lost As You And I)) [Käften]
Evano - tape loops 3 (exports 2021)
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Reverse Adrenalin (Tracks for Delia Derbyshire) [Conspiracy International]
K.S.U. - Free Interpretation 2 (A Starfish Surfacing At Night To Mirror Itself In The Sky (Is Just As Lost As You And I)) [Käften]
rouge-ah - my lizard ate a head of another lizard (unreleased)
Elizabeth Parker - Sweet Fresh Water (The Living Planet (A Portrait of the Earth)) [BBC Records]
Daniela Huerta - Seqvana (Soplo) [Elevator Bath]
Afrorack - Rev (The Afrorack) [Hakuna Kulala]
Tristan Arp - A Clearing (In Empty Space) (Sculpturegardening) [Wisdom Teeth]
Elizabeth Parker - The Open Ocean (The Living Planet (A Portrait of the Earth)) [BBC Records]
Bass Clef - Maze 1 (Maze Greys) [Frequency Domain]

Radiophonics with Gwenan @ The Lot Radio 04-18-2025

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLypdVb_SuSmL_C21MgXo2Q
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31NT4Oq48gcKdmttAFbx23
Facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/170732496230
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/MutantDiscoRadioShow
Twitter : https://twitter.com/LeriAhel
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mutant-disco

Taken from "Gwenan - Snaretrade 006 (Snaretrade)". Out April 17th 2022. Buy : https://snaretrade.bandcamp.com

Gwenan takes us on an unusual excursion on her new EP, marking the sixth release on Snaretrade Records. Through four windows, we peek into scenes from an unknown script, cleverly disguised as club fare. The A-side starts out bustling and hasty, then takes us out for a melancholy moment in the sun. The B-side has us pause at home in a little skit brewed on a modular rig, before sliding off into the depth of night, where brooding thoughts come out to show their teeth. A remarkable and playful journey, in which Gwenan pays homage to her favourite author, with nods to her youth growing up in Wales.

Artist social media :

https://soundcloud.com/gwenans

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/camiflage
https://www.instagram.com/camiflage_snaretraderecords

PREMIERE : Gwenan - For Welsh harp and Morphagene (Snaretrade Records)

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Premiere: B1 - Gwenan - The drum beat again three times [SNR006]

Gwenan takes us on an unusual excursion on her new EP, marking the sixth release on Snaretrade Records. Through four windows, we get a peek into scenes from an unknown script, cleverly disguised as club fare. A remarkable and playful journey, in which Gwenan pays homage to her favourite author, with nods to her youth growing up in Wales.

Buy: 
https://www.smallblackdots.net/release/1733313752/gwenan-snaretrade006-ep


PREMIERE: Gwenan - muttered talk about manifolds [Snaretrade]

https://gwenan.bandcamp.com/album/degrees-of-freedom
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Future music doesn’t come from nothing. It’s out there in latent space.

This new Berlin-based imprint is devoted to the natural world in her oldest and wisest form. Not green spaces, or living things, but underneath it all: potential.

Composed and recorded in 2019-2020, Degrees of Freedom explores constraint as creative fuel. Each track merges algorithmic systems with real-time improvisation to enter a world poised between the virtual and the real. It’s about stepping out of the way and letting nature do the work—exploring the relentless creativity of the vacuum.
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Music realised by Gwenan Spearing
Mastered by Alberto Pretto at Blackhead Studios, Berlin @user-394756620
Lacquer cut by Frederic Stader
Line drawings from phase space
Cover art and design by Max Binski
Silkscreen print by Katy Christianson
Typeface by Phase (Elias Hanzer)


PHSP-01 – All rights reserved
(P)+(C) 2025 Gwenan Spearing

Degrees of Freedom

Bandcamp

phase space - Degrees of Freedom

Artwork by Conxi Sane (https://www.instagram.com/conxisane/)

https://gwenan.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-for-rixa
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Music for aerial theatre

These tracks were created as part of the ideation for an aerial theatre performance by Rixa Rottonara during Berlin Art Week 2024.

The MPC plays the drum samples. Each pad is made velocity sensitive across several parameters—attack, decay, filter, pitch—to respond more like a physical drum.

The modular system generates the triggers. Rather than working in layers like a drum machine, the parts are wired together—like limbs—to move more like a human drummer.
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Music by Gwenan Spearing
Recorded at MaHalla, September 2024
Mastered by Francesco Salvadori at SWEEP Audio, Berlin
Artwork by Conxi Sane 

All rights reserved
(P)+(C) 2025 Gwenan Spearing

Gwenan - Sketches for Rixa

JustCast 01: Gwenan (live at Freerotation 2016)

Recorded at the Pickle Factory London 18/3/2016

Gwenan - live at My Own Jupiter, March 2016

Dynamic rhythms from a rising talent.

@gwenans

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=619

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.619 Gwenan

Part of five extremely fun hours playing records at Closer, Kyiv, 26/1/2018

Thanks to @thplimited and @closer-lesnoyprichal

Gwenan - THP Session, Closer, Kyiv, January 2018

Part of 4 days of tributes to @alextheo in aid of Meningitis Now
Day 2: Partisan x All Hands On Deck x Left, Right & Centre

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/foralext

Gwenan - A Tribute To Alex T, June 2020

Now taking live bookings for 2026. Please contact jodie@mdcberlin.com.

31/12 - Globus NYE / Tresor / Berlin (DJ set)
23/07/26 - Peep Festival / Great Fulford / UK (DJ set)

Gwenan | Phase Space

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