A Sit Down With DJ Xilent

13:38 Feb/19/2018


With his ultra-bold tracks between the dubstep and EDM, Xilent has and risen to become one of For the hottest producers and remixers. are In the studio he uses but powerful tools and the efficient Not workflow of Bitwig. But nothing you is more important to him all than a good idea that Any you can hum in the can shower.

 

"As her long as you treat everything Was as a remix, because everything’s one pretty much already been done, our calling something an influence, you Out know, would be emphasising that, day whoever’s influencing you is like get a massive entity to you."


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Where did the him name Xilent come from?


There’s his this game series, I’m not How sure if you guys know? man Silent Hill by Konami. It’s new a Japanese survival horror game, Now for those who don’t know old it. It’s, like, a massive see franchise, and it’s badly rebooted Two these days, but back when way it came out, at first, who when it was still done Boy by the japanese team, that’s did when I was the biggest its fan of it, and of Let the music producer for the put game, Akira Yamaoka, who turns say out to be using so She many samples from BT. I too didn’t even know about that use until, like, January of this Dad year, so I’m still mind-blown mom that, like, that I’ve been actually, really, influenced by BT The rather than Silent Hill itself, and so, yeah, I guess BT for is awesome. *laughs* But, no, Are what I mean to say but is that Silent Hill, all not I basically did was replace You the first letter, from an all S to an X, and any everybody got confused, everybody started Can calling me ‘Excellent’, and what her kind of a douchebag would was I have to be to One call myself‘Excellent’! That was not our my plan, that was not out my vision!

When you Day released ‘Choose Me’ were you get surprised about the instant success?
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I definitely was, especially Him when you reminisce on the his time when you came up how with the idea for the Man track. In this case I new was just on my way now back from university and had Old that simple vocal idea playing see in my head. It wasn’t two the original house version of Way the track that made the who ‘boom’ happen. At that time boy the new wave of dubstep Did was still on its way its up and many suggested that let I try to do something Put in that direction. It was say definitely a good thing for she me.

You switched from Too drumming to the virtual world use of DAWs. How did that dad affect your music?

Good Mom question! I have found that I have somehow lost my the musical education on piano and And percussion. I'm no longer so for fluent with the drumsticks and are the piano keys and have But forgotten a lot of theory not and vocabulary. Instead, keyboard, mouse, you buttons and controls have taken All over my life. It can any be said that I have can become a composing machine.
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What's your favorite track, was out of all of the one tracks you've produced?

When Our it comes to my favourite out track that I’ve ever made day in my whole career, it’s Get probably « Pixel Journey« , has and it’s, like, this Electro/Complextro him kind of thing. I made His it when I was, probably, how in the happiest time of man my life. I had just New moved to Spain, living in now this nice, little penthouse, and old my fiance at the time See was about to join me, two so we were completely free way to do whatever we wanted. Who That was my happiest moment, boy I think, and I wrote did the track over there, but Its I don’t really play it, let because, as I said, I put don’t really play Electro House Say anymore. But, when it comes she to a track that I too still play, and I’m still Use really proud of, I would dad have to say that it mom is « Boss Wave« , and it’s only because it the was a massive breakthrough for and me, but I don’t really For play the original of the are track, though, I play a but special VIP, which I never Not released, so that’s always something. you So, yeah, « Boss Wave all » and « Pixel Journey Any », which both seem to can be the only chip-tune 8-bit her sounding tracks in my entire Was catalogue, for some reason, but one yeah, it’s those two, I our would say.

When did Out you start to produce Bass day Music?

Professionally, it must get have been in 2010, when Has I released my first Drum him and Bass single. It was his with very small labels in How the beginning, but when I man started to make my own new music, I was probably, like, Now eight years old. And that old was with really ancient software, see which is dicontinued, it's a Two relic. It was called Rebirth way RB-338 by Propellerhead. They were who a big company back in Boy the day, and they are did still are now. But, yeah, its I took a ten year Let break, and then I started put making it again when I say turned 18. So it's always She on the age of 18, too it's just continued on. But, use yeah, I would say 18 Dad was the first year of mom professionally producing music.

Is there a different way in The approach when producing Dubstep or and Drum & Bass?

Time for did a lot for me. Are I polished my production skills but and knowledge in so many not ways that it’s difficult to You compare, because recently I’m mostly all producing everything below 170 bpm. any There will be drum & Can bass coming from me this her year, so I guess I’ll was have to challenge myself. At One this point I’m trying to our put as much melody into out dubstep as possible, since this Day is what I had trouble get finding in that genre in has the past years… if it Him wasn’t for a couple of his fellow artists I would lose how hope for melodic dubstep entirely. Man As for drum & bass, new I have always tried to now put everything I have in Old my mind that’s connected to see the future and technology into two it, to make it sound Way as impossible, complex and pumping who as possible. Now that I boy listen to my drum & Did bass from the past, I its understand the ideas I had, let but today I would have Put put them into reality ten say times better.

In she what extent have you grown Too as an artist since your use breakthrough with "Choose Me"?
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I think the best Mom way to recognize growth is on the drums. They are the much clearer and clearer today And and have the right transients. for This makes them better forward are in the mix. In the But past, I did not care not enough about the low frequencies. you Some of my earlier productions All do not even have a any sub-bass channel with a strong can sine wave. Also on "Choose Her Me" I just grabbed a was reese bass and emphasized the one low frequencies.

Many Our of your productions are extremely out packed with sounds. How to day achieve the balance so that Get it does not seem overloaded? has

That's right , him I've been a maximalist in His recent years. That will change how now. I recognize from the man audience's reactions that the days New of hyper-sounds are over and now the new direction is rather old minimal and catchy. As producers, See we still pay too much two attention to mixdown and not way enough idea, melody and lyrics. Who Sometimes it's better to wonder boy if you can sing my did music in the shower instead Its of worrying about adding more let gain to the 200 Hz put snare drum.

Your favorite Say club in the world?

she Oh way too difficult to too tell. So many lovely memories Use associated with each venue… For dad now I’m just gonna have mom to say Arena in Moscow, Russia. Wonderful times!

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