Virulent

Kevin Farabaugh has been DJing, producing, and proliferating underground techno under the guise of the Virulent alias for over a decade. Born and raised in Northwest Indiana and firmly enshrouded in the shadows of Chicago’s house, acid and industrial scenes, he began experimenting with secondhand drum machines and emerging music production software as early as 1996. Frequent trips to Chicago’s Gramaphone Records provided the building blocks for his sound, a strange hybrid of emerging drummy European releases along with more classic and dirty Windy City bangers. Releasing records on Detroit’s Beretta and Seismic labels as well as Indianapolis-based Chromagnon and Azure, Kevin began to make an impact in 2005. However, the death of a close friend combined with the shifting trend towards subpar “mnml” techno prompted him to take a hiatus