Smoke
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Alex Menzies
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Alex Smoke is unique talent to emerge from the Glasgow music scene. This young producer is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with his innovative style of fusing deep european minimalism with emotional strings and intellegent electro rhythms.
Alex Smoke has a background in classical music which is very evident from the quality of his arrangements. His debut release 'Random As' came out on underground Glasgow label 'Savalas Records' to critical acclaim in Jan 2002. Jockey Slut described it as “the kind of record a pissed off Funk D’Void might make”, with IDJ claiming it was a “a dark minimal experiment in sinister atmospherics”. Alex Smoke can already count the likes of Andrew Weatherall, DJ Hell and the Ghostly International crew as fans of his work.
His engineering skill has also been put to use by some of Glasgow's most respected DJ's and producers including Harri, Percy X and Mash. No slouch in the DJ department either, he has played in most of Glasgow's underground clubs and his currently working on a live set using Logic Pro and Ableton Live.
Alex Smoke has a background in classical music which is very evident from the quality of his arrangements. His debut release 'Random As' came out on underground Glasgow label 'Savalas Records' to critical acclaim in Jan 2002. Jockey Slut described it as “the kind of record a pissed off Funk D’Void might make”, with IDJ claiming it was a “a dark minimal experiment in sinister atmospherics”. Alex Smoke can already count the likes of Andrew Weatherall, DJ Hell and the Ghostly International crew as fans of his work.
His engineering skill has also been put to use by some of Glasgow's most respected DJ's and producers including Harri, Percy X and Mash. No slouch in the DJ department either, he has played in most of Glasgow's underground clubs and his currently working on a live set using Logic Pro and Ableton Live.
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| Random As (12") | Savalas Underground Developments | 2002 | ||
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| The Whisper Project (12") | Whisper #1 | Savalas Underground Developments | 2003 | |
Being first in anything is great, and while die hard early techno fans may turn their noses up at me telling them someone has come along and bettered their beloved heroes, as in sports records, record sales stats, and political greats, there can always be someone to come along and one up someone else. Even though you don't allow them to, and won't accept them, either way, it can and will happen.
While I can go on about defending why I suddenly feel there is no better artist to come along in the techno field, I will let his music speak for itself. I can fill 5 CD's right now with a collection of his remixes and own releases of the past 2 years, and from track 1, cd 1, to the last track of cd 5, there wouldn't be a single dull moment in that listening experience, which would be very hard to do for even the seasoned veterans of the electronic music world. And to think we can do that with only a 2 year discography goes without saying. He is constantly keeping each track unique, shuffling feverish glitching, mutilating vocals, and bending any genre's melodies into the craftiest tracks imaginable.
I just hope he can keep it up, and I think he will, because it sure as hell doesn't seem to be a fluke or any kind of beginner's luck!