In this week’s class, we did research on the workflow of artists Nazar, Burial, KMRU and Elianne Radigue.

My group was in charge of finding out about Burial, a London-based electronic musician. His given name is William Emmanuel Bevan but for his artist career, he goes by the stage name Burial.

Growing up, he was a more reclusive person. This could explain why he chose to release music anonymously during the earlier stages of his career before 2007–only five people knew that he made music at this time.

His older brothers were the ones who got him into the UK rave music scene. He mentioned that, “[He] was brought up on old jungle tunes and garage tunes that had lots of vocals in but [him] and my brothers loved intense, darker tunes too”. This early exposure to the garage and jungle genres heavily inspired his sound.

He produces music using Sound Forge, which I was surprised to find out isn’t actually a DAW. It’s a software used for audio editing and it doesn’t have any sequencers for recording music. This is not a limitation for Burial as he believes that by timing drums too perfectly they would “lose something” and “sound rubbish”.