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Artist:Kito

Genres:
  • Dance
  • Electronic
  • Pop
Great Southern, WA

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Maaike Kito Lebbing (her producer alias is also her middle name) grew up in the remote seaside town of Denmark, Australia—five hours south of Perth. She’d been obsessed with music as long as she can remember, inheriting an eclectic taste passed down from her older siblings: Michael Jackson and Madonna tapes coexisted with DJ Shadow and Aphex Twin. As a teen she worked at a record store, DJ’d house parties and was a regular presence at local raves. Meanwhile, a copy of Fruity Loops gave Kito her earliest production lessons, and she threw herself into dance music nerd culture via online forums, staying up all night waiting for rare record releases. But it was a 2008 trip to Europe, intended as a couple months but ultimately stretching into a full year, that inspired Kito to take production seriously as a career path. “I spent lots of time in clubs in London, and it was like a whole world I hadn’t discovered,” she recalls, citing Burial and the UK post-dubstep and bass scene ...

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