Decloak Masterclass Student Gets First Track Played on BBC Introducing.

April 05, 2023 / Jack Barton

Kevin Taylor has been mixing tracks up and down the country for the best part of four decades and is part of the Underground Kollektiv - a global collective of house and techno DJs delivering regular radio shows and events.

It was his love of deep and progressive house music that brought him to us back in summer of this year as he wanted to apply his years of experience in listening and playing the music into learning music production.

With little to no knowledge in music production or Ableton Live he began on our Online Ableton Live Masterclass back in June. Delivering the sessions around his preferred tastes in dance music, Kevin soon showed why a passion for the music and a solid amount of experience listening to and DJing this music can fast-track the learning experience.

Quickly taking to the theory and practical sides to the course, within 16 weeks Kevin had created his first track from scrach completely on his own and this month had a track picked up by BBC Introducing and played on air on 3rd December.

An upbeat, french house inspired banger with a beautiful vocal it was only an experiment by Kevin as he continues to explore his artistic direction. However, since sharing it with some of his network it has received some nice critiques from various DJs such as RobinVP and radio show hosts prompting him to send it out under the alias DJ Kevski.

BBC Music Introducing is BBC Radio's platform supporting unsigned, undiscovered, and under-the-radar UK music talent since 2007. It has given a springboard opportunity to acts such as London Grammar, JME & Skepta and Alt-J to name a few. In 2017 BBC Music Introducing was present at Creamfields and the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), focusing solely on DJs and electronic acts for the first time.