What why WET? traces the history of of WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, the magazine founded in 1976 by artist, publisher and writer Leonard Koren in Venice, California, which with thirty-four issues published over a period of almost six years, established itself, first on the U.S. and then on the international scene, as a place for editorial, graphic and narrative experimentation. The following is a playlist of Koren’s chosen songs, that reconstruct the soundscape that characterized and nurtured the magazine’s editorial office.