In a world full of sonic musical snobbery, a world full of the hierarchy of expensive analogue synthesisers and vintage equipment that takes a small fortune to amass - Smith delivers a unique raw, live and improvised style using an inexpensive keyboard and a downloaded computer program given to him on a memory stick by one of the punters in his dad's pub.

He joins a long list of musicians that were somehow detached from the rule-bound world of the music industry - making music as much for themselves as for anyone else. With no formal musical education and not over influenced by mixing techniques that may have slowed his raw stream of musical consciousness, he started to record live takes that often lasted 10-20 minutes.

"First off I hope people catch the rawness of these tracks as they are all 1-2 hour improvised jam sessions with myself,” says Reuben. “For this first release I hope people catch that, I could have gone back and tweaked things here and there but for this I preferred to leave them as they were in the moment.”

It was this raw energy that shines through the lo-fi recordings that landed in Soundway boss Miles Cleret's inbox one day and caught his attention. Obviously influenced by the Balearic sound of the late 1980s but also by contemporary artists that draw on that tradition has become incredibly prolific - sometimes recording a new track every day, all recorded live and all recorded in the shed.

Smith’s music is imbued with a sunny approach, despite the sometimes grey and wet nature of winter living in the North of England. It is the sound of a young musician that refused to lie down and give up on his passions: when one door closed another one opened.

So here we present some of his earliest musical sketches and heartfelt outpourings. The sound of warm nights, lapping oceans and a young man, in a Yorkshire shed, wrapping himself in layers of musical warmth and shimmering sonic landscapes. The wonderful world of Reuben Vaun Smith.