asias finest, kiat, with the 16th episode of the broken audio podcast
"As one of South East Asia’s pioneers of the drum & bass sound, Kiat championed the darker side of electronica with quality breaks, rolling bass-lines and leftfield influences over many years. With more than 17 years of DJ-ing experience behind him, Kiat extended successfully into music production. Often intricately programmed with deep grooves hidden behind warm detroit synths and strung together by dubby bass-lines and crafted hip-hop breaks, it is no wonder that after opening for Goldie at Homeclub, Singapore, his tunes caught Goldie’s attention and were immediately courted for release on the Metalheadz’s Rufige.
In 2009, he co-wrote Black Diamonds with Sinistarr from Detroit, a journey into a more soulful realm, a refreshing departure from his heavy rollers. This tune was released on Hospital the same year on the Sick Music LP and gained huge support from Goldie, Storm, Commix, SPY amongst other headz. Later this same year, he launched Qilin, a digital music label together with stablemate The Vortex who is based in London. This label served as a platform to not only put out new artists from the world over but also for established producers to showcase their more experimental work. Not confined to drum and bass, Qilin is also looking forward to releasing music from all facets of electronica.
On music production and DJ-ing, he’s always seeking to create a soundscape to be remembered and definitely never takes the same route twice. Finding inspiration from a new breed of producers such as Low Limit and Flying Lotus as well as some minimal techno for good measure, Kiat’s DJ sets are expected to be packed with leftfield beats as well as proper dancefloor bangers.
At the start of 2010, he's been involved with a project called Syndicate, a collective of forward thinking audio/visual artists set to push the edges of the sonic experience to a whole new level"
"As one of South East Asia’s pioneers of the drum & bass sound, Kiat championed the darker side of electronica with quality breaks, rolling bass-lines and leftfield influences over many years. With more than 17 years of DJ-ing experience behind him, Kiat extended successfully into music production. Often intricately programmed with deep grooves hidden behind warm detroit synths and strung together by dubby bass-lines and crafted hip-hop breaks, it is no wonder that after opening for Goldie at Homeclub, Singapore, his tunes caught Goldie’s attention and were immediately courted for release on the Metalheadz’s Rufige.
In 2009, he co-wrote Black Diamonds with Sinistarr from Detroit, a journey into a more soulful realm, a refreshing departure from his heavy rollers. This tune was released on Hospital the same year on the Sick Music LP and gained huge support from Goldie, Storm, Commix, SPY amongst other headz. Later this same year, he launched Qilin, a digital music label together with stablemate The Vortex who is based in London. This label served as a platform to not only put out new artists from the world over but also for established producers to showcase their more experimental work. Not confined to drum and bass, Qilin is also looking forward to releasing music from all facets of electronica.
On music production and DJ-ing, he’s always seeking to create a soundscape to be remembered and definitely never takes the same route twice. Finding inspiration from a new breed of producers such as Low Limit and Flying Lotus as well as some minimal techno for good measure, Kiat’s DJ sets are expected to be packed with leftfield beats as well as proper dancefloor bangers.
At the start of 2010, he's been involved with a project called Syndicate, a collective of forward thinking audio/visual artists set to push the edges of the sonic experience to a whole new level"
Kiat - Broken Audio Podcast Vol 16 Aug 2010 by Broken Audio
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