Tyler Smith / Black Smith Craft is available exclusively through DBA for both live and dj sets with travel from France.
For booking enquiries please use the contact form at the top of the page.

Born in the 70s in the North of France, Tyler Smith aka Black Smith Craft discovered acid house at the end of the 80’s. Seduced & consumed by electronic music he fell in love (like many of us did) with the German melodic trance style of labels such as Eye-Q, Platipus & Superstition. By the late 90s he’d started dj’ing and by the turn of the new millenium his tastes had developed into a more underground techno sound influenced by English, German and especially American (Detroit) sounds.  His radio career kicked off in earnest with Tyler appearing regularly on “Tuesday Session” show broadcast on Campus FM (Villeneuve d’Ascq/France) which was run by Dimitri Pike (Mirage/Matrix/Subject Detroit).

Around this time he started producing his own music and the Alphaground website was born. By 2004 Tyler was a regular on many key dance stations in France and Holland and in 2006 (with Erell Ranson & Pedro Cali) he launched the “Interstate 94” show for Livesets.com dedicated to the sound of Detroit, which was quickly followed by the B-side show which showcased the darker, offbeat & industrial sounds. Tyler’s now managing different shows playing Detroit and Birmingham tunes on Livesets, Emergence FM (Limoges/France) and Techno.fm (Montréal/Québec) radios.

2006 saw Tyler’s debut vinyl release – a collaboration with Bionic on German label Audiocrash which was quickly followed by several digital releases. Over the years Tyler’s sound has become darker & more industrial sounding which in turn has led to the birth of our favourite of his many projects  - Black Smith Craft – and with music released already and more on the way for labels including Grovskopa’s mighty Pohjola, Leeds’ finest Limetree and Rednox’s superb free netlabel Ante-Rasa the future is looking bright.

www.myspace.com/alphaground  // http://soundcloud.com/tyler-smith/

Releases
Tyler Smith – Struggle for life (Nuchoon records) MP3
Tyler Smith – Germanium (Audiocrash records) Vinyl
Various artists – Piilotetut runot pt 1 (Pohjola records) MP3
Tyler Smith – The clockmaker (Plex records) MP3
Various artists – Ardente restructuration (Ante-Rasa records) MP3
Black Smith Craft – No peace for the wicked (Limetree records) MP3
Black Smith Craft – No peace for the wicked : the remixes (Limetree records) MP3

Remixes
Arrestar – Prayer (Black Smith Craft remix) (Ante-Rasa records) MP3
Delusions – Eight (Tyler Smith remix) (Delusions records) MP3
Hoog – Not for the mainstream boyz (Black Smith Craft remix) (Return records) MP3
Grovskopa – Balamber (Black Smith Craft remix) (Labrynth records) MP3
Dimitri Pike – Borneo (Tyler Smith remix) (Wildtek virtual records) MP3 (coming soon)

Upcoming releases
Dimitri Pike – Borneo (Tyler Smith remix)
Doktrin – Lilium (Black Smith Craft remix)
Black Smith Craft – Rue du pourquoi pas EP

Radio shows

Interstate 94 (Livesets radio), every 15 days on Monday at 21.00 CET (Tyler Smith, Erell Ranson + guests) since march 2006
The Dirty show (Techno.fm), every Thursday at 20.00 CET (Tyler Smith/Black Smith Craft, Arrestar, Rednox + guests) since april 2008
Bside (Livesets radio), every three monthes on Monday from 21.00 to 06.00 CET (Black Smith Craft + guests) since october 2007
Interstate 94 FM version on Emergence FM (Limoges, France), every Friday at 23.00 CET (Tyler Smith + guests) since november 2007
Good old times (Livesets radio) every first sunday of the month at 19.00 CET (Tyler Smith + guests) since january 2010

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