TM Juke: Biography

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Birth Name:

Alex Cowan

Genres:

Trip Hop Music, Rock Music, Acid Jazz Music

Decades Active:

2000's

Trained on classical and jazz guitar, TM Juke (born Alex Cowan) picked up the sampler as a teenager, partially as a way to annoy his father (who had been insisting that his son take formal music lessons since Alex was seven), and partially because of his love of hiphop. At 23 he released his first fulllength album, 2003's Maps from the Wilderness, on Tru Thoughts. After remixing songs for countless other artists, in 2005 he teamed up with British singer Alice Russell to cowrite and produce her debut, My Favourite Letters. The following year Forward came out, a joint release on Ubiquity and Tru Thoughts, and featured the same jazz, soul, funk, and hiphopflavored organic electronica that had been found on his first record.

- Marisa Brown, All Music Guide