Billain

Billain
Birth name Adis Kutkut
Also known as
  • Billy
  • Billainbeats
  • Aethek
Origin Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Genres
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 by the Bosnian War pre-teen. 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 thaught 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. Today his music gets airplay on BBC Radio 1 and is featured on UKF Music.[3]

In 2014, Billain created and composed together with Sloven Anzulović 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]

Furthermore, Billain releases shortfilms about technological singularity and artificial intelligence.[5]

Discography

EPs

Singles

Remixes

Productions

Shortmovies

External links

References

  1. Mirko Schwanitz (2005-06-07). "Die Hip-Hopper von Sarajevo (Archiv) - Kriegskinder prägen die Kultur der Stadt". Deutschlandradio Kultur. Deutschlandradio. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  2. 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.
  3. "Billain-Artist Biography". Drum and Bass Arena. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  4. "Vijećnica nam se vratila iz pepela". Radio Sarajevo (in Bosnian). 2014-05-09. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  5. "Billain - Assembly". Red Bull Music. 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
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