About Youandewan

General dan@waxonuk.com EU Bookings tom@waxonuk.com Personal/Remixes/Promos ewan@magicbagmusic.com Press/Media melissa@maouris.co.uk "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 Villalobos might employ.He utilises a blunt 'less is more' philosophy that is clearly absent in the customary canon-drops or bounteous hands-in-the-air breakdowns which pollute the music of many of his peers. Instead, Smith favours the building of atmospheres and emotions using shady, sandy textures and hidden little details to get you gripped.And it's working, too, as only this summer did Cocoon snap up his MagicBag cut 'Movin' for their June released Party Animals compilation. More recently, impressive new talent Midland has enlisted Ewan's (along with Radio Slave's) services to remix his 'Bring Me Joy' release via This Is Music, whilst December sees his latest solo release on MagicBag Music,'Meet Me At Teufelsberg'. It's made up of slow burning and elongated house mutations and is his most mature work to date. Of course, with associations such as those, his DJ diary is also full, and it takes him across both the UK and Europe to play alongside all the names you'd expect of a subversive talent. At the same time, Smith's domestic agenda is reserved for regular recur in Leeds where he is a new resident at The Mint Club's exclusive in-house promotion, System." Resident Advisor www.residentadvisor.net/dj/youandewan Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youandewan/53962912190