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 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

• Broken Universe EP (2010, Citrus Recordings), with Future Signal
• Kontra EP (2011, Citrus Recordings)
• Colossus EP (2014, Bad Taste Recordings)
• Binary Volume 3 (2014, Critical Music)
• Colonize EP (2015, Eatbrain)

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)

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

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
• DNA EP (2014, Fmjam Records), EP by Frenkie

Shortmovies

• Assembly (2014)

External links

• Official website
• Billain discography at Discogs
• Billain at the Internet Movie Database

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.