“I’m not a ‘musician’ - I was always scared of people who had studios”: How Burial produced the 21st century’s most influential electronic album on a “rubbish, dying” computer with outdated software

Burial.

Few artists inspire the kind of universal reverence that Burial does. Appearing seemingly out of nowhere in the early ’00s, his downcast and ethereal tunes synthesised UK garage and the then-revolutionary sounds of dubstep with cinematic textures, atmospheric sound design and raw emotion. 

There’s a reason why, if you ask your favourite producer who their favourite producer is (and we do quite a lot of that), Burial is often the answer you’ll receive: he’s behind some of the most powerfully emotive, artfully produced electronic music that’s ever been made.