Biography

Alex Mein Smith is a native New Zealander currently resident in the UK.

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"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)

"His music is always built around driving rhythms, fast, fat, mechanical, but more rock than techno. Below, just above the surface, he puts a carpet of electronics, creepy, haunting and sometimes uplifting. Quite a nice move I think...." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

"There's something about these tracks that brings back distant memories. It's not the ambient qualities necessarily, although that"s part of it, but it"s certainly something about the sounds selected, and the quality of the sound... It gives me a lot of emotional feelings about something a long time ago, but I can't figure out what it is." - Shane Cooper

"Wednesday Addams with a Moog." - Murdoch Stephens