The Unik is a first-class mastering engineer, but he’s also an excellent musician and hyper-creative producer. Known for his off the hook live Ps and massive productions, it’s his 2 first eps on PLAY ME RECORDS, playlisted by Excision or Spor among others, that revealed the guy to the bass music world, soon followed by the massive Gazoline EP on his own label Château Bruyant alongside fellows top french producers Niveau Zero , Habstrakt and Tambour Battant.
When not haunting his studio in Provence, he delivers mad live sets mixing dubstep, drumstep, drum and bass and electro in a personal yet explosive performance. The Unik likes heavy beats and hard basslines and he’s not one to play love songs. The Unik … is unique.

Interviewer :Brent Michael Azer for Dubstep TORONTO

BMA – So why don’t you tell us a little about yourself?

The UN1K – My name’s Adrien AKA THE UN1K, an electronic music producer from the south Of France. I mainly produce Dubstep and Drum & Bass. I also produce electro and will soon start a new side project. I run the record label CHATEAU BRUYANT RECORDINGS alongside my 2nd Family : François “WAPI” my manager, TAMBOUR BATTANT, NIVEAU ZERO, BAXTER BEEZ and JULIEN “PABLITO” ZAGO (Graphic Designer) I’m also a full-time mastering engineer in my own facility here in France.

BMA – How did you first get into music production? How did this all start for you?

THE UN1K – Well i’ve been a Guitar Player for 18 Years now, and did some really extensive work in a musical school where I also worked as a cubase teacher. I started producing back in 2000, from techno kind of stuff and then to Drum And Bass pretty quickly, and now more into Dubstep, which is really kind of a fresh air now. I really get into it when I saw my friends of TAMBOUR BATTANT producing the “professional” way, with proper mixdowns etc…Then came the sound of NOISIA which really inspired me a lot.

BMA – How would you describe the Dubstep scene in France?

THE UN1K – Well I think its really getting bigger and bigger, thanks to the really awesome promoters out there : SPLASH PARTY for example, they have booked all the big talent and headliners for Dubstep. We are also throwing out big events with my label, and are pretty sold out all the time which is really great!

BMA – Can you tell us a little about your work with PLAY ME and how you got signed on with them?

THE UN1K – PLAY ME are awesome. They just naturally hit me back up on AIM when they heard some DNB tune I did at the time. That was the tune called POWER. Reid was really diggin’ it and signed me right away! I really like the fact that they build their Label to release some material that was unreleased for whatever reasons on any other major label. As a Matter of fact it did so well that they’re now established as one of the biggest Dubstep labels out there! I’m really thankful for them signing me.

BMA – Do you have any advice for up and coming producers looking to get signed to a label?

THE UN1K – Yeah sure. Just keep THE BEST of what you got guys. Never give up!!! But yeah, be really hard with yourself and just keep the best of your productions, throw away the rest.

BMA – What can we expect from The Unik in the future?

THE UN1K – Well i’m actually going to Asia and will be touring there during March (China, Vietnam, Thailand) and I am working on a new release to be launched soon. I am also planning an album release on my Label late 2012.

BMA – Thanks for everything and the great mix! Any last shout outs you’d like to give to Toronto?

THE UN1K – Thank you, and yeah…Toronto i’m ready to smash up your dancefloors! Best from France!

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