Robert Card, better known by his stage name Blackmill, is a British electronic music producer. His music has been described as melodic dubstep / chillstep. Card was born in the

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and started playing a guitar which he got for his birthday at age 8. At the age of 15, he began producing

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under the name Robert J.C. He started producing

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as a response to its growth in 2010. His remix of Ellie Goulding's "

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" placed number one on the music blog aggregator Hype Machine in the early 2010s. During 2011, he released his debut album ''Reach for Glory'', as well as another album, titled ''Miracle''. In 2017, he worked with Scottish folk singer

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to release the song "Emerald City". In 2021, he released ''Home'', his comeback album. In 2019, Bella Bagshaw of

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described him as an "eternally under-the-radar producer".

Discography

* ''Reach for Glory'' (2011) * ''Miracle'' (2011) * ''Home'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackmill Living people British trance musicians Scottish electronic musicians Scottish record producers British dubstep musicians British remixers People from Badenoch and Strathspey Year of birth missing (living people)