Billain

Billain
Birth name	Adis Kutkut
Also known as	Billy Billainbeats Aethek
Origin	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Genres	Drum and bass Neurofunk
Occupation(s)	Music producer Sound designer DJ
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Bad Taste Recordings Breed 12 Inches Citrus Recordings Civil Music Close 2 Death Recordings Critical Music Fatality Recordings FM Jam Records Med School Music Menart Records Mindtech Recordings Rise Audio Syndrome Audio
Website	www.billain.net

Billain (born Adis Kutkut) is a Bosnian drum and bass producer, DJ and sound designer from Sarajevo. He is mostly known for his distinctive style within the neurofunk genre and his collaborations with Frenkie and Edo Maajka.

Career

Billain was influenced as a pre-teen by the Bosnian War. During the four-year lasting Siege of Sarajevo he began to draw and later discovered graffiti and created his first hip hop productions.^[1]^[2]

In search of new possibilities to express his feelings originating in the siege, at first Billain taught himself autodidactically how to produce techno music and later neurofunk. Before he released his first music, Billain joined the drum and bass collective Kontra which organised many drum and bass events in Sarajevo with Djs like Matrix & Optical, Teebee, Stakka & Skynet and Konflict. His music has been played on BBC Radio 1 and has been featured on UKF Music.^[3]

In 2014, Billain, alongside composer Sloven Anzulović, created and composed the sound design and music for the re-opening ceremony of the 1992 destroyed and now rebuilt National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[4]

Billain currently releases shortfilms about technological singularity and artificial intelligence.^[5]

In 2016, Billian started his side project Aethek. With this project, he drifts towards the genre of Noise music, only focusing on sound design instead of melody and rhythm.

Discography

EPs

Broken Universe EP (2010, Citrus Recordings), with Future Signal
Kontra EP (2011, Citrus Recordings)
#DNA EP (2014, Fmjam Records), with Frenkie
Colossus EP (2014, Bad Taste Recordings)
Binary Volume 3 (2014, Critical Music)
Colonize EP (2015, Eatbrain)
1991 VG (2017, Renraku) as Aethek

Singles

Rhyno / Intrusion (2008, Breed 12 Inches), Rhyno by Receptor
Glome / The Solution (2010, Fatality Recordings), The Solution by High Maintenance
Coded (2011, Close 2 Death Recordings), on Blood Money LP Part 1
Phalando / Away we go (2011, Close 2 Death Recordings), Away we go by Para
Pranksters / Li (2011, Citrus Recordings), Pranksters by Dabs
Probes / Horus 8 (2011, Syndrome Audio)
Soulmatter (2011, Rise Audio), on Rise Audio EP
Total Darkness / Fiber Twist (2012, Rise Audio)
God Ribs (2012, Rise Audio), on RA004 EP
Batbots / Manifold (2012, Bad Taste Recordings)
Blockfield / Boogie (2013, Bad Taste Recordings)
Supertensor / Equilateral (2013, Mindtech Recordings), Equilateral by Allied
Wizard (2014, Bad Taste Recordings), with Teddy Killerz on Machine Room Level Two
Device Nine (2014, Rise Audio), on RA010 EP
Safety Hatch (2015, Underslung Audio)
Metal Jaws (2016, Bad Taste Recordings), on MethLab, Vol. 2
Specialist (2016, Inspected Records), on Glados EP
Vertebrae (2016, MethLab Recordings), on Monoleth 001 EP as Aethek

Remixes

Krakpot (Billain Remix) (2012, Close 2 Death Recordings), original by Optiv
Half Life (Billain Remix) (2013, Civil Music), original by Reso, released on Tangram Remixed
Paradox (Billain Remix) (2014, Vandal Records), original by Opsen & Primal Therapy
Ambers Love Was Like A Marble (Billain Remix) (2014, Med School Music), original by Rawtekk, released on Sprouted and Reformed
Tetsuo's Redemption (Billain Remix) (2014, OWSLA), original by KOAN Sound & Asa
Mantra (Billain Remix) (2016, Mindtech LTD), original by AKOV
Rethink (Billain Remix) (2016, Othercide Records), original by Current Value

Productions

Odličan CD (2005, Menart Records), album by Frenkie; production of Outro
Stig'o ćumur (2006, Fmjam Records, Menart Records), album by Edo Maajka; production of Sretno dijete, Za Mirzu, Blažena tišina and Severina/Fm Jam
Štrajk mozga (2012, Fmjam Records, Menart Records), album by Edo Maajka; production of Panika, Facebook, Imaš li ti šta para, RaTaTa / Moj Dj and Gube Se
Prodike (2014, JabbaTon Records), by Fil Tilen and P Money
Igra riječi (2014, Fmjam Records), album by Kontra; production of Velepodaja
Reexperience (2015, Fmjam Records, Menart Records), album by Frenkie; production of Film, S.C.A., Izgubljeni snovi, Mali od Ede and Gdje god su moji

Shortmovies

Assembly (2014)

External links

References

↑ Mirko Schwanitz (2005-06-07). "Die Hip-Hopper von Sarajevo (Archiv) - Kriegskinder prägen die Kultur der Stadt". Deutschlandradio Kultur. Deutschlandradio. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
↑ Mirko Schwanitz (2006-04-02). "Manuskript: Techno in Sarajevo - Neues Leben in der Hauptstadt Bosniens" (RTF; 0,2MB). Deutschlandradio Kultur. Deutschlandradio. pp. 16–17. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
↑ "Billain-Artist Biography". Drum and Bass Arena. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
↑ "Vijećnica nam se vratila iz pepela". Radio Sarajevo (in Bosnian). 2014-05-09. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
↑ "Billain - Assembly". Red Bull Music. 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2014-12-06.

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