Glasgow based producer Alex Smoke is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with his innovative style of fusing deep European minimalism with emotional strings and intelligent electro rhythms. His productions have so far appeared on Soma and Vakant, and most recently Alex has founded his own label, Hum+Haw, together with his partner-in-crime, Jim Hutchison.
Tracks on "Lux"
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Platitudes
(Track 02 on this Album)
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Our first guest this week is Stuart McMilan of Glasgow's pioneering techno group Slam. From the early 1990s on McMilan and partner Orde Meikle paved the way for the local electronic music revolution, by starting their own label, more...
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For his third album, the follow-up to his highly acclaimed 'Paradolia' from 2006, Alex Smoke makes full use of the creative freedom his own label allows for. Arguably his most refined effort to date, 'Lux' features highly original techno tracks next to mature melodic electronica and processed beat abstractions.