Guest
“Nowadays, it's more and more often young producers who make the biggest waves. From the dusty, Dilla-esque house of Kyle Hall, to the fresh purple progstep of Joker, it seems the young-guns are bound by less rules; are weighed down by less history. As a result, such artists are creating more freely than are their older peers, and with much fresher results. One such newcomer is Leeds based Ewan Smith. His records to date (on labels like MagicBag) have had props from Radio 1's experimental tastemaker Mary Anne Hobbs and have pricked the ears of local label 2020Vision, Hamburg's Diynamic and, more recently, crossover dubstep starlet Skream who has signed a pair of Ewan's lateral formulations to his own label, due for release in January. Smith's music is characterised by restraint and influenced by the consecrated legacy of Detroit amidst the contemporary locomotion of Berlin. He moulds dub, house and techno into subtle sonic atmospheres of the sort anyone from Scuba to Vil
