Alex Smoke
Glasgow's hottest minimalist drops beats and science to decipher the human genome
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When I first started using my voice it was the most hidden thing ever.
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If you want to convey emotion or a personal thing, then the vocal is the way to do it.
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I was doing biology in Glasgow, aquatic bioscience, but I hate water so I don't know what I was thinking.
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Weird is good.
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It's incredibly quantized but it's still got emotion.
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I'd never do that to someone's Underground Resistance collection. She would have killed us.
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Interviewer
Emma Warren
Inspired by her early days as a rave connoisseur, Emma Warren went on to become a founding writer for Jockey Slut and spent four years at The Face; she currently writes for the Observer Music Magazine, Time Out and boutique magazines like Marmalade and Dummy. In addition, Emma has passed a judicial eye over the Mercury Music Prize nominations and created bespoke productions for Channel 4 and 20th Century Fox, among others. She’s also been behind numerous compilations on the London’s seminal Soul Jazz label, but we’re not naming names.
