Artist description It's just another creative outlet...

Music Style electronic; it really varies with my mood

Musical Influences BT, Hybrid, Radiohead, Dust Brothers, Prodigy (old), Ferry Corsten, Daft Punk, The Smiths

Similar Artists Nope

Artist History I've been programming music for about 2 years, I think. That's about it...I got interested in electronic music at like 12 or something and decided it would be cool to make my own. My music has really progressed over the time I've been doing it... my older stuff really is laughable.

Group Members me...DjRust aka Graham Smith

Instruments software, an fx processer, an ancient synth and my mind...samples from absolutely every instrument known to man

Albums In Dust, Building LeftField

Press Reviews THE FUTURE LIFE **Written by Krystel Gutierrez "Everything I've listened to has had an impact on me." The musical prodigy, as he so eloquently calls himself, the 'not-so-infamous Dj Rust', said June 17, in an up close and personal interview. Dj Rust, also known as Graham Smith, an 18-year-old resident of Chestnut Hill, PA, and a member of the incoming freshman class of Temple University, has a tremendous talent that will soon affect people on a broader scale. Smith is a veteran musician with several releases under his belt, including In Dust and Building LeftField. His latest release, Building LeftField, contained 7 tracks and was Smith's debut whole record, containing variations of trance music such as Professional Goodnight, Epic Underground, and Final Slide, and of course the title track Building LeftField, a personal favorite of mine. "Future Life should be released over summer," said Smith, "it won't get an official like release release cause I don't really have a label, I mean, if I did that would be great, but I doubt they'd accept a full album to release just like that, especially in my style." The long awaited second album has already raised eyebrows, however Smith doesn't feel that he's anything to praise. When told of his musical genius, Smith just shrugged and said, "Thanks, but you're fucking deaf." Influences for the young artist include many from his childhood and even more from his recent addiction to music, which, according to Smith, is because, "Everything I've listened to has had an impact on me. I took piano when I was 5 for a number of years, so I was first influenced by classical, which I shoved back for a brief pop stint, and then into grunge, "alternative" and basically into punk/ska, then finally into electronic, which actually happened with the movie Hackers and Prodigy's music, which I'll still listen to. I'll listen to everything however, and I'll still be influenced, because if you hear a song that you really like, it's hard not to steal an idea or concept, as much as you put your personal twist on it, but of course I'll trash anything that I can tell I stole." Hardly the egotistical condescending and self absorbed lingo that you would expect from such a talented artist. Smith really is 'the music' and not just an annoying modern day wanna-be celebrity. "I guess music's so "special" to me because it provokes an idea, and it's really a reflection of life. It invokes so much from a series of noises, and if you think about it, that's a really cool concept." said Smith. Born in Abington Hospital, and raised in Chestnut Hill, Smith has big plans for the future. "Plans for the future?" laughed Smith, "I have no idea, await the collapse of the economy? Just kidding, I really have no idea, I mean, I'm going to college, and I'm going to have a better computer and all, so my music's probably going to become a bit...a hell of a lot more complex. I can actually add in everything I want to add in now. It's going to be insane." As for Smith's favorite artists, he was easily decided, explaining that BT was the most influential and meaningful artist, perhaps Smith's "All time favorite." When asked about Smith's personal favorite song of the artist BT, Smith said, "Flaming June - it's the first BT song I heard, and also, listening to it after all the rest, I still think it's the most meaningful, I found out it was a big trance hit after I heard it, if you ask me it really made the genre what it is and inspired me to do more than just traditional genrewhore trance bullshit." Smith said he feels different ways after completing his songs. "It depends on what song it is," he said, "some of them I think are complete shit, well most of them I think are complete shit, but then like Building LeftField, Syphon, Professional Goodnight, Ascention, and Motivation Direction, I've felt kind of amazed that I could actually do that, particularly with Motivation Direction and Ascention." Smith says that if he could collaborate with any one artist, "that's tough, cause I really don't want to answer BT for all of these...probably Hybrid, Wide Angle (their first album) influenced me probably more than BT's Movement in Still Life. I heard somewhere that it's "the most moving electronic album" or something like that. It's music that actually makes a point with a lot of REALLY tight programming and a very live feel to it. They're really good at what they do and they also have musical direction and popularity, I'd like to see exactly what they do." Smith, has quite the equilibrium, and spends his time skating, writing, making and listening to music, DJing, hanging out with his friends, overanalyzing stuff, and "hacking once in a while." At Temple University, the artist plans to major in Information Sciences and minor hopefully in psychology. When speaking of his upcoming release, Future Life, he said, "the obvious concept behind the album is reliance on technology, as something that could be catastrophic, but that's not necessarily how I see it." And the album truly is incredible, full of ups and downs, heaviness and airiness, and "kickin" breaks. He says that the most meaningful song done by him as an artist would be "right now Motivation Direction, although it's really Future Life as a whole, the more I discover what I really meant about it the more I'm interested in it. I know it sounds vain and weird or whatever, but I write the music first, and then figure out what I meant by it. Anything that I didn't mean anything by is not going on the album." Smith was asked to state some sort of advice for music listeners in general, and Graham the Comedian came out and said, "people who love music don't need advice, I'm the last person to tell anyone what they should or should not be listening to or to tell people how to listen. Actually, I guess remember that pop music is really producers talking to your sex drive and stuff like that, so don't buy into it? I don't know... like what? I mean, Jesus Christ, they're listening to music, do they need advice?" No Graham, of course they don't. On a more serious note, the truly amazing and incredible artist says, "everybody has somewhat of a front that they put up to everyone else, I mean, it's a natural defense mechanism, but if you don't express who you really are you'll eventually go brain-dead or snap. One of the two." "It's overused, but be true to yourself."

Location Chestnut Hill, Pa - USA

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