Alex Smoke live (Vakant, Soma | Scotland) August 8, 2008

Minimal Techno & House

Friday August 8

zer0gsounds and RobotLoveSongs Going Away Party

Featuring:

Alex Smoke live (Scotland | Soma, Vakant)
Alex Zahara (Boston, 12 inches of Pleasure)
Eddie O. (Boston, Zero G Sounds)

9pm - 2am, 21+

$5 before 10:30pm, $10 After at the door

To celebrate the many memorable nights and friends made along the way RobotLoveSongs and zer0gsounds will have Alex Smoke from Glasgow, Scotland perform one of his in-demand, highly acclaimed live performances at the Paradise Rock Club Lounge, Boston.

About Alex Smoke:

Reading the interviews and biographies in the links below you pick up common themes. Alex is something of classically trained savant for electronic music production of diverse genres and influences who has quickly achieved status among Europe's top live acts and built an impressive repertoire of accomplishments, all the while being a remarkably humble and decent person. He has a slew of 12 inch single releases on Berlin's discriminating Vakant minimal techno imprint. Scotland's famous Soma Recordings recognized the rare talent by putting out two full length albums to critical and popular aclaim and also a sci.fi.hi.fi DJ mix series release following in the foot steps of Luciano. There was a remix request for the 1960's pioneer of minimal composing, Steve Reich, and a commission for a classical arrangement celebrating the human genome mapping. The live performances--intense and musical, full of the minimal aesthetic (in its best sense), back boned by the influences of Chicago House, Detroit Techno and Detroit Electro among others--has made Alex Smoke a regular guest in the forward thinking clubs and Summer festival circuit around Europe. This summer brought Alex to headline Saturday night at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, a performance that was called by many as the festival's best behind Carl Craig's rare live performance. In addition to this special night the tour will see Alex return to play North America's preimminent techno parties including The Bunker in New York and Kontrol in San Francisco. The techno cognescenti just can't get enough.

For the past several years RobotLoveSongs and zer0gsounds have been bringing cutting edge dance music to Boston, breaking new ground for this city's dance music scene almost every step of the way. Their parties and bookings brought respected stars of the underground from this continent and Europe along side local DJs and live acts that shared their love for dance music and its culture. The year long off-the-grid series of 808 Chinatown and South End parties (http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/25727-808-epilogue/) opened up more than few eyes for what night life could and should be while providing a home for those who knew but stopped looking or believing it was still possible in this city.
http://www.robotlovesongs.com
http://www.zer0gsounds.com

Evidence:

Excerpts from a gig at the NAME Festival 2007, France


MP3 - Live Set June 2007 in Belgrade (192 kbps)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4v0qht

Further Befriending, Reading and Listening:

http://www.myspace.com/alexsmoke1

Soma Label Bio - Reads more like an interview
http://www.somarecords.com/artists/alexsmoke/biography/

Biography
http://www.gostimirovic.com/artists/alexsmoke/biography/index.html

Resident Advisor Interview
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=806

hum+haw - Alex's new multi-genre label for everything from indie hip-hop to techno
http://www.myspace.com/humhaw

vakant - Quality minimal label home to releases from Onur Ozur, Mathias Kaden, Dinky and of course Alex for his more minimal 12-inches
http://www.vakant.net | http://www.myspace.com/vakant

Official Website: http://www.zer0gsounds.com