Evian Christ is late to pick me up from the station because he's been taking trees from his mate's garden to the dump. I'm in Ellesmere Port, his Merseyside home town: industrial chimneys loom in the background, grey smoke tumbling out of them like lava from a volcano. As he finally pulls up in his red Volkswagen, a girl who's dodged the train fare is attempting to run away from a police officer.
"The glamorous life of a producer, eh?" he quips, as we speed off to a nearby retail park and settle down in Starbucks "the place that brought wi-fi to Ellesmere Port". He knows this is the last place you'd expect to find one of 2014's most-hyped new electronic beatsmiths, one with a credit on Kanye West's Yeezus to his name. But it's where he's grown up for the past 24 years. Here, he's known simply as Josh Leary, a regular guy in jogging bottoms, sports jacket and delicate silver chain.
by via Electronic music | The Guardian
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