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Alex Smoke is a Scottish talent making electronic records that blur together European minimalism, pop structures and emotional strings and pads. He has released two full length albums, ‘Incommunicado’ and ‘Paradolia’ [Soma Records] and a slew of singles and remixes, many of which have arrived on Soma and German label Vakant.

His debut release ‘Random As’ came out in January 2002, but Smoke has always been immersed in music. In his youth he sang in a choir for four years (a far cry no doubt from the mournful tones on his ‘Don’t See the Point’ or ‘Never Want to See You Again’), his parents are involved in classical music, and he has classical training in cello and piano.

Alex makes minimal uncompareable to the stigma this genre has attracted over the last years. So step back a couple of years and to one of my favourite tunes by him, I would highly recomend checkin out his other stuff.

Alex Smoke – Don’t See the Point

Here is a well sculpted video by the guys at We Love… which features Mr.Smoke

Back in the day when acid was just a tab, DJ Pierre was holed up in his Chicago bedroom inventing a sound that would impact the music scene forever.

In 1986, the infancy of ‘acid house’ was spawned when DJ Pierre picked up a Roland 303 and created ‘Acid Trax’, released on Trax Records under his Phuture moniker: Acid. He went on to record many of the early Acid House releases on Trax Records under the names Phuture, Phuture Pfantasy Club, Pierre’s Pfantasy Club (with Felix Da Housecat) and Phortune, including the release ‘Your Only Friend’ still a key player today. DJ Pierre has also released on labels including Strictly Rhythm (where he was also A&R for a time), Jive, Emotive, Nervous, Twisted, Ovum, King Street (including his debut mix CD ‘The Afro Acid Project’) his own Afro Acid Plastik imprint, and more.

Now DJ Pierre gets Gigolo with DJ Hell. ‘I’ve Lost Control’ (an ode the Sleazy B / Marshall Jefferson Trax Records release) is already receiving support and props from DJs including Laurent Garnier, Ame, Radio Slave, Phonique, Shinedoe, D’Julz, Alex Smoke and more. The original WildPiTcHMix mix is heavy analogue designed for only the loudest speakers.. The ‘I’ve Lost Control’ Spastic Meltdown mix is reminiscent of… guess…

DJ Pierre aka Da Master Blaster- I’ve Lost Control (WildPitch Mix)

I think this resident advisor mix is up there in the Top 5 there are, it certainly is my favourite mix….from resident advisor;

“This mix was done on the road (the only real time I get to do things like this, folks) in Ableton Live on my laptop, during several stopovers on a long trip from Norway to Ibiza. I wanted to do something that was almost entirely mixed in key. I’d worked out most of these mixes from playing out but there were a couple where the pitch had to be tweaked in the computer so they didn’t clash.”

Enjoy.

RA.027 Ewan Pearson Podcast (zshare)

01. Jimpster – Seventh Wave (Dirtcrew Rework)
02. Junior Boys – In The Morning (Alex Smoke Remix)
03. Loco Dice – El Gayo Negro
04. Glove – Build The Fire (2006 Dub Edit)
05. Ada – Living It Up
06. Giorgos Gatzigristos – Sloenjse
07. Holger Zilske Meets Dave DK – Midi Shower
08. Phones – Worryin’
09. Justus Kohncke – Advance
10. Cobblestone Jazz – Peace Offering
11. Heckmann And Kauffelt – Kookaburra
12. Microfunk – Pecan
13. Noze – Kitchen
14. Antena – Camino Del Sol (Joakim Remix)