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Tempa091 is a two-track collaborative 12 by Wen and Parris, featuring dramatic rollers "Caught" and "Collide". Parris is the founder of rising label Soundman Chronicles, while the past year has found Wen exploring his own idiosyncratic, haunted visions of grime and dubstep. Their debut for Tempa, it follows on from their collaborative track eTimef earlier this year, which featured on Wen's acclaimed Signals album for Keysound. These two new tracks find them plunging still deeper into sparse, sensuous territory. Shifting away from the harder angles and subtle garage flex of Wen's album, both "Caught"f and "Collide" . which are regulars in the record bag of DJs such as Youngsta . heighten the atmosphere to near breaking extent. "Caught" is all abrupt percussive tics, flickering melodies and snippets of voice that cut through the air, while the rhythms underneath reshape themselves in real-time, switching from grime's staccato bass blasts to sinuous, sidewinding grooves. "Collide" is even more exquisitely fluid, with its drums and distant melodies swimming though a backdrop that's somehow monolithic and tantalisingly fragile at once.