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Birth name | Robert Card |
Origin | Carrbridge, Scotland |
Genres | Dubstep, trance |
Occupation(s) | Music producer |
Robert Card, better known by his stage name Blackmill, is a British electronic music producer. [1] His music has been described as being melodic dubstep and chillstep. [2]
Card was born in the Scottish Highlands and started playing a guitar which he got for his birthday at age 8. At the age of 15, he began producing trance music under the name Robert J.C. [1] He started producing dubstep as a response to its growth in 2010. [1] His remix of Ellie Goulding's " Your Song" placed number one on the music blog aggregator Hype Machine in the early 2010s. [3] During 2011, he released his debut album Reach for Glory, [4] as well as another album, titled Miracle. [5] In 2017, he worked with Scottish folk singer John Edge to release the song "Emerald City". [3] [2] In 2021, he released Home, his comeback album. [5] [6]
In 2019, Bella Bagshaw of Dancing Astronaut described him as an "eternally under-the-radar producer". [2]