There is nothing about the approach music composer Electronic Kili (Stephin Jose) talks that reveals he’s the voice behind that 2024 earworm ‘Eyy banane oru pootharamo’, from the underdog movie, Vaazha – Biopic of a Billion Boys. “The lyrics don’t make a lot of sense, it is a ‘silly’ song. I just sang it for the director, while composing it. It worked, I didn’t realise the song would click the way it did. ‘Eyy banane…’ is high energy, and I did not like the raw version of it so much!” He is one of the 5 composers in Vaazha.
Electronic Kili is now gearing up for his first solo launch, Thalavara, through which he has tried to create a unique sort of sound. “I spent a lot of time on the music, around three months on the film’s seven songs,” he says over the telephone.
While his music (movies and unbiased music) has a extra of an digital aspect, he has tried retaining it easy for this film. The songs have a sure gradual, previous world allure. He explains, “For example, for the song ‘Kand kand…’ I used the words as a hook for the music; I got the words and then the tune.” The Tamil tune ‘Nila nila…’, from the movie, isn’t his.
He began his profession with composer Ankit Menon, as music producer on Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey. For somebody who claims he can’t sing, he’s one of the singers in Ankit’s composition ‘Machinmele…’ in Extra Decent, ‘the Flip Song’ from Maranamass and ‘the Jeppu Song’ from Sarkeet composed by Govind Vasantha. He is the co-composer and music arranger of Maranamass.
Like most younger creatives in the Malayalam movie business, Electronic Kili took the engineering path to cinema. “I have always liked music, I played the keyboard. After engineering, I joined AR Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory in Chennai to learn music.” The musician says he’s extra all for the composing half than singing.
This leads us to the inevitable query, Why Electronic Kili? “I was not really thinking of films or something at the time. I just needed a name for my SoundCloud profile.” And the title simply caught.
