Christian Smith
Tronic Treatment (2001)

review by: Jason Thornberry
Date: 8/2/01

While some may find the use of two turntables in their sound a bit of a task, this Swedish DJ hooks up three and mixing, cutting and scratching like a mad scientist, fusing the punching bag repetition of house with the more animalistic throb and weave of techno.

Somehow, with releases on some thirty record labels to his credit, Smith is able to make it all work out. I found myself running back several cuts to hear the way he wove certain sounds together, dropping the drums down somewhat and suspending them in a milky, squelchy effect, so you feel them as much as you hear them, then channeling other sounds through an electronic delay system that can stretch any noise until it goes from Point A to Point V within seconds, and is no longer recognizable as, say, singing, or a human giggle, or a cough. A world to completely immerse yourself in. Unplug the telephone.