Biography
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Born
27 April 1999 (age 25)
Kai Whiston is a producer based in Dorset, United Kingdom. He creates hyper-surrealist beat music, teeth-cutting bass, unearthly distorted textures and fractured yet charming sampling. All of this had cemented Whiston’s sound as one that managed to pull from simultaneously none and all genres of electronic music. He first got into production at the age of 12, teaching himself how to use digital production tools "with Google Chrome and 50 tabs open"; he started experimenting with remixing computer game soundtracks that he and his friends were playing at the time. His first break came after encouragement from Brainfeeder’s IGLOOGHOST (they actually hail from the same small town) who inspired Kai to start getting his music out into the world, and subsequently put him in touch with LA based label TAR, run by PBDY of Brainfeeder and JP Moregun (with Jeremiah Jae). They went on to release his debut EP “Houndstooth” in 2016, garnering immediate support from Mary-Anne Hobbs and leading to his inclusion as a featured producer, alongside Grimes and Jam City, on Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes mixtape "Humans Become Machines” in 2017. His maximalist pastiche draws fractured influences from Arca, Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips.
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