Gianina Mesina

Who do you see in the Mirror? Billain invites you to climb inside the next chapter. A birthday, an album, a myriad of reflections. We’ve followed the story from early release days to the full bloom of a completely new branch of neurofunk; the universe of cyberneuro, cultivated and nurtured by the maestro himself.

Birds flutter over rolling green, basslines twists in dance with the violin phrase. This is not a fever dream, it’s the gorgeous idyll of Kursa and Alicia Kiah. Once in a while, a project will emerge from the soundscape that simply cannot be defined by genre or style.

It’s a story with a transatlantic start; beginning in the heady mists of 90s NYC. Tokyo native, DJ AKi, was yet to touch a mixer. Working in a cafe in East Village his fellow barista, now better known as US pioneer DJ DARA, had just opened his own record shop, ‘Breakbeat Science’ – the U.S.’s first ever drum and bass crate parlour.