Billain

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Billain
Birth nameAdis Kutkut
Also known as
  • Billy
  • Billainbeats
  • Aethek
Born (1983-08-01) August 1, 1983 (age 40) [1]
Origin Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Music producer
  • Sound designer
  • DJ
Years active2008–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
  • Vision Recordings
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.

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Career

Billain was influenced as a pre-teen by the Bosnian War. During the four-year-long Siege of Sarajevo he began to draw and later discovered graffiti and created his first hip hop productions. [2] [3]

In search of new possibilities to express his feelings originating in the siege, at first Billain taught himself 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. [4]

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. [5]

In 2018, Kutkut designed sounds for the movies Pacific Rim Uprising and Hunter Killer and created the soundtrack of the horror game Scorn. [6] [7]

Billain also releases shortfilms about technological singularity and artificial intelligence. [8] With his side project Aethek, he drifts towards the genre of Noise music, only focusing on sound design instead of melody and rhythm.

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

Remixes

Productions

Shortmovies

Sound Design

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References

  1. ↑ "40 rotations around the sun". Billain via Twitter. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
  2. ↑ Mirko Schwanitz (2005-06-07). "Die Hip-Hopper von Sarajevo (Archiv) - Kriegskinder prägen die Kultur der Stadt". Deutschlandradio Kultur. Deutschlandradio. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  3. ↑ Mirko Schwanitz (2006-04-02). "Manuskript: Techno in Sarajevo - Neues Leben in der Hauptstadt Bosniens". Deutschlandradio Kultur. Deutschlandradio. pp. 16–17. Archived from the original (RTF; 0,2MB) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  4. ↑ "Billain-Artist Biography". Drum and Bass Arena. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ "Bh. producent Billain autor muzike filmova Hunter Killer i Pacific Rim Uprising" (in Croatian). Klix.ba. 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  7. ↑ "Interview: Ljubomir Peklar on horror game Scorn". PC Gamer. PC PowerPlay. 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  8. ↑ "Billain - Assembly". Red Bull Music. 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
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