SMT presents: 10 Questions with Ryan Hemsworth

For Ryan Hemsworth activities like touring the world, talking business with Drake’s manager and eating sushi with Riff Raff are becoming ever more frequent. It’s a long way but a short time from his days as a journalism student, blogger and bedroom music producer at the University of King’s College, Halifax – a fact he’s well aware of and gracious for.

Ryan’s unique brand of electronic production ventures freely from hip-hop and trap into ambient, dreamwave and even dance territory. A style that has garnered him a wealth of fans online and sees him regularly grace the pages of online music tastemakers like The Fader and Pitchfork. Off the back of this following and numerous free releases/remixes, in 2012 he released his EP Last Words through the WEDIDIT collective. Since then it’s been a whirlwind.

While the publicity around him has grown significantly in the past year, it doesn’t seem to have gone to his head. In spite of of the hype Hemsworth is still just a down to earth, well-humoured dude from Halifax, with a passion for producing beats on his laptop and a keen eye for all things Pokemon related. I got a hold of Ryan after slightly exploiting this enthusiasm for Pokemon (apologies again) to ask him ten questions about his life, music and forthcoming debut LP Guilt Trips.





Check out Ryan Hemsworth’s full discography here.

Download his BBC Radio 1 - Diplo and Friends Mix here

or stream it and more on his Soundcloud.

Follow him on Twitter @ryanhemsworth & Facebook.