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Adis began making music in 2004 at the ripe age of 15 after being given a copy of Reason 2.5. Determined to come up with a track on his own, he spent countless hours practicing and honing in on his craft, teaching himself the foundational effects of delays, reverbs, EQs and compressors. After a lot of trial and error and a $100 Casio MIDI keyboard, he began writing his own melodies. While he mainly produced urban genres for 10 years, Adis has turned his musical focus into EDM, producing primarily progressive house, bigroom and trap music. He also writes film scores, which he finds more complicated than EDM but also more liberating. “You can learn a lot as a producer by stepping out of your usual genre and exploring something totally different,” he said. Adis Kay cites his main musical influences as Armin van Buuren, Calvin Harris and Hans Zimmer, giving his music an eclectic and unprecedented sound. In the future, he hopes to turn his hobby into a full-time career, being able to