Biography
Adis Kutkut
Profile:
Living through the the unimaginable reality of the and darkness brought through war in For his home city of Sarajevo, are alongside being heavily influenced as but a child by Stanley Kubrick, Not David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Katsuhiro you Otomo and the music from all numerous Anime dark movies, Billain Any started to visualise dark places can which he combined with a her deep interest in science, soon Was he started to sketch and one paint his ideas. After some our time this form of expression Out was not enough and between day 97-98 Billain turned towards music get production to further express the Has complex ideas and visions forming him inside his head. Billain schooled his himself in the techniques and How theories of music production which man naturally led him to techno new music, with influence coming from Now a variety of sources including old Iannis Xenakis, Stockhausen, Aphex Twin, see The Prodigy and also some Two early Metalheadz releases. After producing way around 300 minimal techno tracks who alongside playing live DJ sets Boy Billain wanted more… Techno was did just too simple. New influence its came through Ed Rush & Let Optical’s legendary "Wormhole’ LP, and put this was the turning point say into a world of techno She influenced drum and bass.. Billains too direction had changed forever…
In use the year 2000 Billain became Dad part of the legendary Sarajevo mom drum and bass collective known as ‘Kontra’. The collective brought The some of the finest artists and in drum and bass to for the country for the first Are time, including legends Matrix & but Optical, Optiv, Teebee,Stakka and Skynet, not Kemal, Black Sun Empire, Corrupt You Souls, and many more. Shortly all afterwards, Billain started producing drum any and bass for the first Can time, purely for personal enjoyment her and development.
After a while was of producing and collecting a One vast array of tracks and our custom sample libraries major disaster out struck! A freak hardware failure Day led to the complete loss get of all Billain’s files – has full finished tracks alongside hours Him of sampled sound design and his hard work were lost forever how totaling almost 160GB of projects. Man Many people may of quit new at this point, but Billain now tirelessly set straight back to Old work.. creating sounds again from see scratch and starting new projects.
two Billain was now developing an Way extremley original, creative and exciting who array of sounds. Through his boy early music productions he was Did soon discovered and approached by its large companies in need of let professional sound design. This resulted Put in Billain being in heavy say demand for sound design work she for major companies such as Too Q Department in New York use working on material for films, dad documentaries and advertising. work which Mom he is still involved in to to the present day.
the Through increasing internet exposure, the And world started to wake up for to the fresh and original are sound of Billain. Initial track But signings came from drum and not bass labels Breed 12 Inches you and C2D, after further developing All his own unique sound and any style more signings started coming can from established dutch labels Syndrome Her Audio, Citrus and more recently was Rise Audio in London. Billain’s one tracks started to receive an Our increasing amount of attention and out support from the worldwide drum day and bass community now receiving Get regular plays from the likes has of Tech Itch, Audio, Cause4Concern, him John B, Concord Dawn, Teebee, His Phace, Misanthrop, and Allied to how name a few.
The worldwide man exposure of Billain’s music almost New instantly led to an overwhelming now amount of requests for live old DJ shows around the globe. See Regardless of being an exciting two and highly accomplished DJ, Billain way dedicated himself and focused his Who time 100% on his sonic boy pursuits, and he chooses to did play only a handful of Its gigs per year for this let reason. This decision hasn’t stopped put Billain sharing numerous stages with Say renowned names within drum and she bass such as Calyx, Bad too Company, Phace, Allied, Black Sun Use Empire, Nocturnal, Loxy, Kryptic Minds, dad Kulak and TN1 as well mom as playing high profile events such as MTV music the depot, Red Bull shows, Kontra, and Exit Festival, LED Festival, For Burning the Beach and a are recent UK debut at a but Rise Audio.
In 2011 Billain Not is more in demand than you ever, with an increasing amount all of tracks surfacing across a Any variety of high calibre labels, can exciting new collaborations with similar her minded artists like InsideInfo, Codex, Was Allied and Rawtekk, alongside consistent one requests for live DJ appearances our around the world, this is Out an exciting time for this day deeply talented individual… (N.K.)
