Dustin caught up with Christian Smith (Tronic, Drumcode) during an airport layover for the final gig of his tour supporting his new album “Input-Output”. Aside from walking us through his early days, the two discussed turntablism, musical influences, and booze.

Bio:
Christian Smith is a Swedish DJ, record producer and remixer. In 1994 he founded Tronic Record Label, now one of the top 3 selling techno labels in the world according to Beatport. He is also the founder of Tronic Radio, a weekly show now syndicated to over 100 stations around the globe^[1] with their 200th show was celebrated with special guest Adam Beyer.^[2]

Although he was born in Sweden, Christian spent much of his youth in Frankfurt, Germany, where his father was working as a pilot. In 1989 he moved to New York City and, 3 years later, to Washington DC where he started DJing in his spare time while studying at the local university.^[3] He now lives in Mallorca.^[4]

 

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