Published
Tue, Mar 6, 2007, 03:20
- His music might be moody, but the Scottish technoist is anything but. RA checks in with Alex Smoke.
Like Disneyland, sometimes the darkest places on earth are the ones where there’s never anything but smiles – or so says Alex Smoke. “If you meet people who listen to incessantly happy music, you’ll find that they’re usually pretty sad people,” he says. If he’s on the money, then shrinks’ waiting rooms should be swollen with J-pop starlets, ‘uplifting house’ vocalists and happy hardcore DJs. Now there’s an idea for a reality TV show.
Given the gloom that Smoke’s work repeatedly conjures, you’d imagine the music would be reflected in the man making it, but as a matter of fact, Alex Smoke is a frank burst of sunshine. “People who haven’t met me who’ve just listened to my music probably think I’m a miserable bastard,” he confesses. “But I’m alright really. I’m not as miserable as people think I am.”
His music might be moody, but the Scottish technoist is anything but. RA checks in with Alex Smoke.