Birth Name: | Robert Card |
Origin: | Carrbridge, Scotland |
Genre: | Dubstep, trance |
Occupation: | 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.
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. He started producing dubstep as a response to its growth in 2010. His remix of Ellie Goulding's "Your Song" placed number one on the music blog aggregator Hype Machine in the early 2010s.[2] During 2011, he released his debut album Reach for Glory,[3] as well as another album, titled Miracle.[4] In 2017, he worked with Scottish folk singer John Edge to release the song "Emerald City".[5] In 2021, he released Home, his comeback album.[6]
In 2019, Bella Bagshaw of Dancing Astronaut described him as an "eternally under-the-radar producer".