Billain


Billain 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 rappers Frenkie and Edo Maajka.

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.
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.
In 2014, Billain, alongside composer Sloven Anzulović, created and composed the sound design and music for the re-opening ceremony of the rebuilt National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been destroyed in 1992.
In 2018, Kutkut designed sounds for the movies Pacific Rim Uprising and Hunter Killer and created the soundtrack of the horror game Scorn.
Billain also releases shortfilms about technological singularity and artificial intelligence. 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

  • Nomad's Revenge
  • Lands Unbreached
  • Mirror

    EPs

  • Broken Universe EP, with Future Signal
  • Kontra EP
  • #DNA EP, with Frenkie
  • Colossus EP
  • Binary Volume 3
  • Colonize EP
  • 1991 VG as Aethek
  • Different Eyes

    Singles

  • Rhyno / Intrusion, Rhyno by Receptor
  • Glome / The Solution, The Solution by High Maintenance
  • Coded, on Blood Money LP Part 1
  • Phalando / Away we go, Away we go by Para
  • Pranksters / Li, Pranksters by Dabs
  • Probes / Horus 8
  • Soulmatter, on Rise Audio EP
  • Total Darkness / Fiber Twist
  • God Ribs, on RA004 EP
  • Batbots / Manifold
  • Blockfield / Boogie
  • Supertensor / Equilateral, Equilateral by Allied
  • Wizard, with Teddy Killerz on Machine Room Level Two
  • Device Nine, on RA010 EP
  • Safety Hatch
  • Metal Jaws, on MethLab, Vol. 2
  • Specialist, on Glados EP
  • Vertebrae, on Monoleth 001 EP as Aethek

    Remixes

  • Krakpot , original by Optiv
  • Half Life , original by Reso, released on Tangram Remixed
  • Paradox , original by Opsen & Primal Therapy
  • Ambers Love Was Like A Marble , original by Rawtekk, released on Sprouted and Reformed
  • Tetsuo's Redemption , original by KOAN Sound & Asa
  • Mantra , original by AKOV
  • Rethink , original by ''Current Value''

    Productions

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

    Shortmovies

  • Assembly
  • Fugitive

    Sound Design

  • Pacific Rim Uprising, additional synth programming
  • Hunter Killer, additional synth programming
  • Scorn, ''soundtrack and additional sound design''