Alex Mein Smith

Alex Mein Smith

Genres: electronica, electronic, glitch, New Zealand, nine inch nails

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About Alex Mein Smith

Alex Mein Smith is a New Zealander based in the UK. His music is predominantly heavily destroyed rhythms accompanied by minimal guitar textures/melodies. Completely failing as a regular musician or fully fledged NZ noise artist, he is utterly non-prolific and has been known to spend 9 months agonizing on the same track. Has performed many times, mainly in London. --------------- "He doesn't draw lines between noise and melody, using equal amounts of each... quite often at the same time. As such some of these tunes are like distorted electro-pop instrumentals with (almost) hummable melodies leaking out of the controlled chaos, but equally tempered with interesting doses of semi-industrial noise bursts." - Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector "It's not dance music per se, but the groove is as infectious as it is strange, and manages a kind of rare dark euphoria. While the aural textures Smith explores on Necessity's Flame are as out there as anything fans of the NZ underground would expect, a tight knit structure holds the record together, flavoring it with an accessibility it might not otherwise have." - Jon Pitt, Foxy Digitalis "Alex Mein Smith debuts with a sound that seems to come from the intuitive pluripercussion of Daniel Menche, drawing "pulp and smash" that looks like drones passed inside an ambient-isolationist washing machine. A fascinating and obsessive music as well as quite diverse and original (apart from the few moments when it stresses techno) that makes us think of something actually 'new'." - Stefano I. Bianchi, Blow Up Magazine (Italy) "Wednesday Addams with a Moog." - Murdoch Stephens

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