Flora Yin-Wong UK

London-based multidisciplinary producer and DJ

Sculpting ambient field recordings into dissonant pastiches informed by the synthetic framework of club influences, Flora Yin-Wong’s body of work cycles through the emotional spectrum. Informed by life experiences spanning through East Asia and beyond, her aural collages vibrate with personal, social and spiritual history—sampling temple chimes, the Chinese Yangqin stringed instrument, Cantonese pop music and pulling from her family’s history of involvement with opera. Instinctually powerful, her work touches on existential themes of death, transmission and rebirth in a way that can crawl under a listener’s skin. Raised playing violin and learning guitar in her early teens, Yin-Wong was eventually drawn to analog house and techno music. While developing a deep structural understanding of beat-driven electronic music, she began making music from stringed instruments she learned in her youth. While she’s had long involvement with DJing as well as working as a music programmer in Hong Kong in the early 2010’s, it wasn’t until Yin-Wong accidentally marked a track as public on Soundcloud that New York’s PTP label scouted her for a release, leading to the City God cassette, named after a Daoist deity that provides divine protection to a city’s residents. Yin-Wong’s profile grew with remixes of contemporary boundary-pushing artists such as Giant Swan’s Mun Sing and Halcyon Veil’s Celyn June, and in 2017 she joined iconic experimental label PAN’s roster.