With 400,000 worldwide single sales and 80,000 worldwide album sales to date, 61 million streams, and over 70 million YouTube views – Blackmill’s Robert Card truly is one of the princes of melodic dubstep. Blackmill reached number one on Hype Machine with their remix of ‘Your Song’ by ‘Ellie Goulding’, and his music also featured on BBC’s Hustle. He has also collaborated with Mt. Eden, considered to be one of the godfathers of melodic dubstep. Influenced by artists such as Bob Marley, Bar 9, and Mt Eden (obviously), his album ‘Miracle’ is considered by fans of electronic dubstep to be one of the “must listen to records”.
Even after four years, with a huge cult following, the enigmatic producer has finally returned with a tropical house number, an experimental departure from his trademark melodic dubstep sound. This song is simply destined to be this summer’s chill-out hit. With mellow, almost sultry saxophone, a slow rhythm, a bouncy bassline, and the soft nostalgia driven vocals of Graham Brown, this song has been a labour of love for Blackmill; a love that radiates throughout the track and warms your soul. This is sunshine woven with poetry, caressing your mind, making the whole world beautiful.
Robert Card and Graham Brown met way back in primary school whilst growing up in Inverness. Robert has recorded hundreds of tracks over the past four years. Due to his desire for perfection, that had resulted in his widely acclaimed earlier releases, these tracks on the other hand just gathered dust on hard drives. All that changed after both Robert and Graham travelled to America recently, visiting several locations. It was what was to become a voyage of rediscovery (truly, more on that later), where they found new inspiration and once again fell in love with their music. On return from America they blew the dust of their hard drives and recorded what is surely to be a huge song this summer…