At only 17, young Swedish producer Dayn is already starting to make some serious moves. Pushing the darker, grittier side of the dubstep spectrum, he doesn't pull any punches, drawing for destructive rhythms and maniacal bass manipulations. Set to release Bone Breaker / Vulture on Chronos Records toward the end of this month, we caught up with him to get the low down on what he is all about...

Can you please introduce yourself?
I'm Dayn. I'm a 17-year-old dubstep producer and DJ from a small town in Sweden. Currently signed on Chronos Records. Always had an interest in music, especially electronic.

What kind of background do you come from musically and how did it progress to where you are at now?
I've been interested in music for as long as I can remember, although I've never played any instruments and such. I've always loved the ambient stuff, used to listen to my mums Mike Oldfield vinyl when I was a little kid hehe. Today I'm really in to the more energetic and hard-hitting dance floor music. But still, I enjoy both producing and listening to chilled out stuff.

When did you pick up production and what impelled you to do so?
I started producing dubstep about two or three years ago. I had experimented with other music genres before but that was nothing really serious. There was something in dubstep when I first heard it that really made me want to be a part of it. So I started producing and here I am!

How did you get into dubstep and what inspired you about the sound?
I had been listening to drum & bass and other electronic genres for a while when my mate (Daladubz) first introduced me to dubstep. None of us had ever heard it before and we thought it was the bomb haha! Then I started producing and he soon followed. The thing that inspired me was that it really stood out in comparison to all the music I was used to. Steady half-beat drums with really heavy bass and dark reverbish atmospheres really did it for me.

How would you describe your production sound? What threads would you say are inherent to the music that you make?
Mainly my music is very hard. Hard bass, energetic wobbles and many noises. I guess you could say that I'm labelled on the tear-out side of dubstep. I do produce lots of ambient stuff too, although it doesn't reach out to the listeners as much.

How did you link up with the Chronos Records stable?
They started following me on MySpace in my early production days giving me props for my tunes and wanted them for their DJ sets. I really got the impression that they were nice guys. One of them was interested in trying to find me a label to get my sounds out there and then they just decided to make one themselves.

What projects/releases do you have in the pipeline?
Right now I've got a vinyl / digital release on Chronos Records out on August 20th. It will feature my tunes Bone Breaker and Vulture, a remix of my tune Stomp by Kirkus and the tune War-Bot by Doctor Philth. Going to have a lot coming during the year as well.

 

Words: Sam Collenette

 

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