iFrolov

Have you ever been to Kaliningrad ? A city on a border of Germany and Russia . City that really saw the history of both, let inside the walls of noble grey, that kind of grey that makes sorrow a joy. Surrounded by magical forests and lakes… where white swans live… Wind, but one of those, that travels around the world and takes you around the world within an instance. You walk down the street and everything sort of slows down, yet lives an active life. Impossible to describe what it is — this place certainly has it's own shivering soul. Feel it…

And it brought us iFrolov.

Iliya Frolov. Born in Moscow . Moved to Kaliningrad at the age of 11. And already at his 15th year living on this planet — began evaporating trance and house music out of his innermost. All the spare time was filled with expanding of knowledge of music production, creating and perfecting his compositions, making them more and more unique and original, each time his hands touched the keyboard.

2002 — track called Freedom was brought to Evgeniy Korotkov, a host of the show 'Dancefloor Fm'. And the consequence of spilling tunes on the radio was a collaboration with Ruslan Pechyura (CJ Astron) — another trance music producer of K-city. They comprise Ultralight. The first flower of their work, Tribute, comes out on the compilation Tranceland # 1. A little later, another track from Iliya and project Independence , shimmers on the second compilation of this serious and finds a lot of support in hands of DJs like Jon O'Bir, Ernesto, Bastian and others.

2005 — Iliya decides to leave Ultralight and go solo. He feels — there is a world inside of his fingertips projecting intelligence and dreams on the screen and into sound.

At the end of the same year track 'Cloudy' is on the track-list of Global DJ Broadcast by Marcus Shoultz.

Right now Iliya is working hard on the sound and how to make it authentic. Perfecting, creating, looking for freedom on the edge of the place that knows what it takes to get one.

Questions:

1. Do you see sound? If yes, than in what? How do you imagine it to yourself? What is sound?

I don't just see it, I sense it… Sound is in me… To me, sound is an energy of something bright and beautiful, something that fulfills me and gives me an urge to live and be happy. Music that I make is my diary… I keep my memories in sound.

2. If you close your eyes for an instance and imagine the most beautiful place on Earth or in the Universe, what would that be?

To me it would be a lonely rock surrounded by the ocean and caressed by the waves.

3. What does your city mean to you and do you reflect it in sound?

Yes i do reflect it in sound just as anything that happens to me and has an impact on my soul state.

4. What is the first kiss?

First kiss to me is when two people become one and in that moment the whole world freezes around them.

Ilya Frolov (A little thing from Vert)

Discography

Original productions:

• iFrolov - Cloudy (Original Vocal Mix) / Pitch Music / 2007
• iFrolov - Drop by Drop (Original Mix) / Pitch Music / 2007
• iFrolov & Silent Brothers - Gentle Dawn (Original Mix) / Pitch Music / 2007

Remixes:

• Grigory & Anthony - Other Melody (Lokitas & iFrolov Remix) / Pitch Music / 2007