Raszia-Acidway (Formal Method Remix) (Dark Garden 021)

Techno DJ, producer, remixer and radio brodcaster for different radios around the world.
Alias : Black Smith Craft

Send me your promos and I'll do my best to play your tracks !

== RADIO SHOWS ==
Interstate 94 on Livesets radio (the Netherlands, since 2006, monday from 21.00 to 23.00 CET, twice a month) : Detroit techno oriented show. More infos : http://www.livesets.com
Interstate 94 on Emergence FM (Limoges/France, since 2007, every friday from 22.00 to 00.00 CET) : Detroit and techno oriented show. More infos : http://www.emergence-fm.com
The Dirty show on Techno.fm (London/UK, since 2008, every thursday from 20.00 to 22.00 CET) : Detroit and Birmingham oriented show. More infos : http://techno.fm/shows/dirtyshow/
The Bside show on Livesets radio (the Netherlands, since 2007 monday from 21.00 to dawn CET, every three months) : Birmingham and industrial techno show. More infos : http://www.livesets.com

== SOUNDCLOUD GROUPS ==
http://soundcloud.com/groups/technotherapy (founded by Tyler Smith, moderated by Tyler Smith & Mike Stern)
http://soundcloud.com/groups/old-school-techno-1 (founded and moderated by Tyler Smith)

== BIOGRAPHY ==
Back in the Day, Tyler Smith aka ‘Black Smith Craft’ discovered the unique sound of acid house and was immediately captured by the hypnotic vibe that emanated from the music during the end of the 1980’s.
He found himself seduced & consumed by this wave of electronic music and fell in love with the German melodic trance style labels such as Eye-Q, Platipus and Superstition, as many of us did… 
Having followed dance music in all its forms throughout the 1990’s he started DJ’ing and by the turn of the millennium he started to develop a taste for the more underground techno sound which was coming out of England, Germany & especially the Detroit sound of the time…
Tyler Smith had always wanted to be involved with radio broadcasts and this ambition kicked off in earnest when he started playing regularly on the ‘Tuesday Session’ show, broadcast on the very popular Campus FM (Villeneuve d’Ascq/France), which was run by Dmitri Pike of Mirage/Matrix/Subject Detroit fame.
Spurred on by the development of increased exposure through radio he started honing his skills in music production and the ‘Alphaground’ website was born. This brought about more exposure for his music mission and by 2004 Tyler was performing on a number of key profile dance music stations in France and Holland. During 2006 he launched ‘Interstate 94’ show with Erell Ranson & Pedro Cali for Livesets.com, which was dedicated to the sound of Detroit. This was quickly followed by the aptly named ‘B-Side Show’ which showcased the darker, offbeat & industrial sounds. Currently the main man is managing different shows playing classics from way back, Detroit & Birmingham tunes on Livesets.com, Emergence FM (Limoges/France), and Techno.fm 
In 2006 Tyler’s finally realized the goal of having his debut vinyl release which was in collaboration with Bionic on French label ‘Audiocrash’. This was quickly followed by several upstanding digital releases. Over the years Tyler’s side to the music has become darker & more industrial, which in turn has led to the birth of his most acclaimed project: Black Smith Craft… With music released already on distinct labels from the scene and more on the way for labels including Grovsjopa’s mighty ‘Pohjola’, Leeds finest ‘Limetree’, UTCH rec. & Rednox’ superb free net-label ‘Ante-Rasa’…
Since 2008, Tyler has played across Europe alongside artists like Kr!z, the 65d mavericks, Bas Mooy, DJ Toki, DJ Boss, Bionic, Dimitri Pike, Arrestar, Sean Matters, Systemic, Victor Martinez…
More recently, he has created the groups http://soundcloud.com/groups/technotherapy and http://soundcloud.com/groups/old-school-techno-1 on Soundcloud to keep the real techno spirit alive and promote both established and up and coming techno artists from around the world.

FAQ: About that weird, unfriendly & ominous music I irregularly inflict on dancefloors, and how to quickly empty yours:

Fictional question-asker: "Are you a DJ?"
Me: "No, I sculpt unsafe sounds."

Testimonial from a friend who likes dubstep:
"Strongarming music into your brain since 2004 (c) - the whole shebang BANG BANG BANG BANG wheeaaaaoooooo EEEE IIII1111einz!"

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FAQ:
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YOUR LIBERAL USE OF IRONY HAS TURNED ME ON. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS TRAFFIC ACCIDENT HAPPENING IN MY SPEAKERS THAT YOU CALL "MUSIC"?

My weapon of choice is hard-as-nails, corrosive-as-fuck industrialized techno, played at 133ish BPM (that's totally a genre, I swear).

Sometimes, I switch it up with hot, sweaty, sexy-but-slightly-twisted psychedelic techno with an old-school bent (also totally a genre).

I have occasionally been known to take mercy on less masochistically-inclined dancefloors by playing some friendly neighborhood dark (minimal) techno.

Over the years, several people have ended up with severe, irreversible brain-damage when, at 8am in the morning, I played a mash-up of drones, (dark) ambient, field recordings and the sounds of transformers fucking. I reserve this for special occasions, as it reduces the pool of intelligent conversationalists at a given event.

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CAN YOU PLAY THIS ONE TRACK THAT I REALLY LIKE?

No, I don't have any happy-happy joy-joy music with me. I leave it home specifically because I enjoy saying "no" to people like you.

No, I won't play that one track that you have on your virus-infested USB stick. I don't know what you've been docking that with, and it's going to ruin the flow of the set. Feel free to play it to me AFTER I'm done and if I like it, I might use it in my next set.

Don't ask me to play dubstep. One of these days I'm going to put that on a t-shirt and wear it to DJ gigs.

Rule of thumb: if by some sort of divine intervention all 22 fans of my style of music have converged onto a single location from all the corners of the known multiverse, and they're all dancing except for you -- it doesn't really matter what you're about to request. It's going to suck. Don't do it.

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THIS ALL SOUNDS REALLY AWESOME AND UNDERGROUND. WILL YOU PLAY AT MY BIRTHDAY PARTY WHERE 10 PEOPLE WILL COME?

Are you absolutely sure you want to traumatize your innocent, unsuspecting dancefloor-goers? Then sure, I'll come. I only play unpaid gigs (excepting travel expenses). Two reasons:

- *Personally speaking*, I don't enjoy DJing nearly as much when money changes hands. For me, it's a form of self-expression and autopsychotherapy.

- A significant amount of my favorite tracks, I got for free through netlabels, SoundCloud, as free promos or from producer friends. Charging money for playing sets doesn't feel right to me.

I use my own Samsung netbook and Hercules RMX midi controller, which take about 3 minutes to set up, tops. It runs on battery power for about 6 hours of quality Traktor time. The one thing I really, really need to play on your kick-ass sound system is a connector point for the familiar red-and-white RCA plugs. If you have a non-kick-ass sound system, I do bring my own converters for 3.5" jack-plugs.

DJ/Producer/Artist from Hungary. 

contact/booking: formalmethodtech@gmail.com

Owner and co-founder  of @audioexit

One Half of @am-fm-techno

Playing electro as XIX-LXXXIII

for more dj sets/live sets go to: http://www.mixcloud.com/formalmethod/

DEMON.I/O is the owner of Subspecies Label and Dark Garden Recordings; Producer and DJ, but also a reference in northern Spain about techno music, getting to play in several clubs like Moog (Barcelona), La Sala del Cel (Girona), Pepe’s (Burgos), Industria Elektra (Zamora), Green Prods Club (Salamanca), Itzela (Gipuzkoa), Milennium Sound, Event, Bypass, Noctua & Botanic (Navarra), Boomerang & Sendero (La Rioja)…

With a career that spans over a decade, DEMON.I/O has developed a unique and personal style and can be seen in particular DJ sets that venture through the many subgenres of electronic music.

DEMON.I/O has worked for spanish and foreign labels and netlabels:  Subspecies (Spain), NuLabel (Spain), Audioexit Rec (Hungary), District Facility (Lithuania), Madame (France), Geometrika FM (Spain), Doppt Zykkler (Spain), Induxtriall Rec (Spain), Dark Garden (Spain)…

Being faithful to his style and philosophy, DEMON.I/O is in a continuous evolution betting for new sounds and new projects in the Techno scene, like his works on vinyl with Ritzi Lee, Victor Martinez and David Meiser, Tomohiko Sagae, H. Paul, Delusions  and Kike Pravda, Sleeparchive, Error Etica and P.E.A.R.L… 

His records and productions are regularly charted and played the likes of: Ben Sims, Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Josh Wink, Dave Clarke, Mark Broom, Victor Martinez, Flug, David Meiser, Patrick Carrera, Mike Stern, Doryk (Formal Method), Drugstore, Razeed, Dario Girau, Feryne, Snap-9A... and has appeared in Techno podcast like: The Poeticast, UrbanNoise Radio Show, Techno Soul Show, AudioExit Podcast, District Facility Podcast, Manifest Podcast, Beton Radioshow or T030 Techno.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mixersmith/173644722704851?ref=hl

I may be part of the system
But if I could rule this land
The rules would be different
But I am just one man.

Audiovisual digital artist

Enux Records
ANTISTAGE Records

mail@pumic.de