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Birth name | Marijus Adomaitis |
Born | Vilnius, Lithuania | 19 January 1983
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Years active | 2009–present |
Labels | Runemark Records |
Marijus Adomaitis (born 19 January 1983), better known by his stage names Ten Walls or Mario Basanov, [1] [2] is a Lithuanian producer who is best known for his 2014 single "Walking with Elephants", which peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
In June 2015, Ten Walls was dropped from several festivals and by his booking agency after making controversial comments comparing gay people to pedophiles in a Facebook post, and referring to the LGBT community as a "different breed". [3]
In 2012 under the name Mario Basanov Adomaitis won Best Electronic Act at Lithuanian M.A.M.A. music awards.
On 10 May 2013 Ten Walls released his debut EP Gotham. [4] On 9 December 2013 he released his debut single "Requiem". [5] On 7 September 2014 he released the single "Walking with Elephants". On 10 September 2014 the song was at number 3 on The Official Chart Update in the UK. [6] On 14 September 2014 the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 6. [7] The song also peaked at number 3 on the UK Dance Chart and number 8 on the Scottish Singles Chart.
In June 2015, Ten Walls posted a rant on his Facebook pages condemning homosexuality and comparing it to pedophilia. [8] As a result of his comments, he was dropped from several festival line-ups. His booking agency, Coda Music Agency, announced that they no longer represented him. Fort Romeau pulled his support for him at London club venue Koko. [9] Ten Walls' posts were later deleted after a backlash, and he put out an apology claiming that he cancelled the festival dates himself. [9] [10] [11] Organizers of Dutch festival Pitch, Belgian festival Pukkelpop, the German festival Dockville, British festival Creamfields, [12] and Spanish festival Sónar publicly confirmed that they cancelled Ten Walls performances due to his homophobic statements. [9] [13] Ten Walls also received criticism from Lithuanian LGBT activists. [14]
Three months after his post, in September 2015, Ten Walls issued a formal apology for the incident, calling it "completely out of character". [15]
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Queen [16] |
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Gotham |
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Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
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UK [18] | UK Dance [19] | SCO [20] | BEL (Vl) [21] | FR [22] | |||||||||
2013 | "Requiem" [5] | — | — | — | 60 [A] | — | Non-albums singles | ||||||
2014 | "Walking with Elephants" | 6 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 130 | |||||||
2015 | "Sparta" | — | — | — | 72 [A] | — | |||||||
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released. | |||||||||||||
On 30 January 2015 at M.A.M.A. awards Ten Walls won awards for best electronic act and best music video ("Walking with Elephants"). [23]
A ^ Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts. Added 50 position to actual Ultratip position.