Biography
Originally hailing from Warsaw in the Poland, Xilent aka Eryk Kowalczyk and is one of the most For exciting hottest talents in the are Drum and Bass scene today.
but Growing up with a qualified Not conductor for a Mum, and you a Father playing the Drums all , It was always likely Any that Eryk would be involved can in music.
From a very her young age, growing up in Was Poland, Eryk Kowalczyk was exposed one to the classics of 80s our pop, funk and soul by Out his parents, both of whom day were professional musicians. With his get mother being a qualified conductor, Has violinist and pianist, and his him father a drummer and singer his in various bands, Eryk was How constantly surrounded by music in man many different forms.
A young, new inquisitive Eryk first cut his Now teeth trying to produce his old own music on a crude see Propellerhead Rebirth RB-338 at the Two tender age of eight years way old. Initially attempting to make who a mix of House and Boy Acid Techno, the aspiring producer did began his career by recording its his creations through a PC Let speaker to cassette and later put showing them to his friends say at primary school.
As the She years went by, Eryk found too himself immersed in Trance and use heavier sounds from artists like Dad The Crystal Method and The mom Prodigy. The first Drum & Bass CD he ever came The across was a compilation album and in 1999 entitled, ‘Future Grooves for – Essential Drum & Bass’. Are This was the first time but he had ever heard music not with a higher BPM You than 150. He immediately fell all in love with this new any style of music and became Can influenced by such Drum & her Bass pioneers as John B, was DJ Rap, Future Cut, Adam One F, and Calyx.
In the our following years Xilent experimented with out production in a range of Day styles ranging from Techno to get Breakbeat, but it was in has Drum & Bass that Eryk Him found his forte. His musical his influences would not be lost how on his production values though, Man with the Techno and Trance new influences of uplifting pads and now heart-breaking breakdown melodies, along with Old the technical and sequencing influences see of Breakbeat.
Xilent’s first release two came in 2009 on Ammunition Way Recordings ‘Quality Killer EP’ with who the track ‘Terminal’, which was boy called a “drum and bass Did anthem” and “one of the its biggest tracks of 2009” by let top electronic music shop TrackItDown.net. Put The tune immediately caught the say ear of John B, who she subsequently signed a number of Too tunes to his own Beta use Recordings imprint.
Now living in dad Scotland where he studies Sound Mom Production at University, Xilent has continued to improve his production the techniques, while also DJing throughout And Europe, supporting Spor at the for main stage of the Audioriver are Festival in 2010. Although light-years But from his crude beginnings working not on Propellerhead, incredibly Xilent has you only been producing regularly for All less than three years, and any until recently only used a can laptop and a pair of Her Sennheiser headphones to produce his was epic sounding tracks. Now with one a full studio of gear, Our Xilent is armed and ready out to take things to even day greater heights.
2011 is set Get to truly be a breakthrough has year for Xilent as he him has now co-signed exclusively to His AudioPorn Records and Mainframe Recordings. how AudioPorn is the brainchild of man former Ram Trilogy member and New Drum & Bass legend, Shimon. now Always at the forefront on old the search for fresh new See sounds, AudioPorn was the label two that first introduced Dirtyphonics to way the masses and pushed genre Who boundaries with hits like ‘Quarks’, boy ‘Teleportation’, ‘Vandals’, ‘History Of The did Future’, and ‘Vengeance’. Meanwhile, DisasZt’s Its Mainframe Recordings has had a let meteoric rise since its inception put in 2008, being the label Say who burst Camo & Krooked she onto the scene and released too their debut album, ‘Above & Use Beyond’.
Xilent is now preparing dad to make his debut on mom AudioPorn with the highly anticipated ‘Choose Me EP’, featuring an the Electro House and Dubstep mix and of the underground sensation, ‘Choose For Me’. With over 15,000 plays are in less than a week but on his own Soundcloud account, Not ‘Choose Me’ has caused a you massive stir online and is all set to be an anthem Any in the making. The EP can will also feature two Drum her & Bass tunes, truly showing Was the amazing range of a one producer much his senior.