19/06/2025
Best known for his landmark IDM and dub techno releases as Aspen and Signer, or for soundtracking the BAFTA-winning survival documentary ‘Touching the Void’ (2003), Bevan Smith’s instincts to combine live instrumentation and programmed production helped pave the way for a generation of musicians from Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu who’ve divided their creative impulses between playing in bands, producing dance music on laptops and DJing.
Lately, he’s been revisiting the copious amounts of ambient electronica and deep, dubby techno he recorded, working with Perfect Location Records and on ‘00-04’, an immaculately curated compilation of previously released and unreleased Signer material.
met up with Smith at a suburban community centre in Te Whanganui a Tara on a sunny Sunday afternoon in late May.
Read the full interview via our linkinbio.