Dave Wesley

Dave Wesley is a prolific and veteran producer of experimental, ambient, and post-dub techno music who produces under several aliases, including Existente (ambient), Xerography (deep techno), and The Mayhem Lecture Series (experimental and field recordings).

He founded underground music and culture-focused Sursumcorda Records and Magazine and sister deep music label Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda). Sursumcorda originated as an art and music collective website in 1998, which evolved into a unique Minneapolis nightclub for electronic and live music in the early 2000s.

His new experimental ambient label, Guias Sonoras, launched in 2020.

Greatly influenced by minimalism and iterative process-oriented art - he creates pieces that, on the surface, are repetitive, while deeper listening reveals a subtly evolving cinematic scene. He's also obsessed with the contradistinction of contemporary clean digital sonics within beds and layers of lo-fi aural contexts and field recordings.

Dave has released on several labels, including Dewtone, Philip Glass’s Orange Mountain Music, Communique, and his own Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda) and Guias Sonoras labels.