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In 1999 Kilian Horvath released his first single as XV Kilist on Spiral Trax International. It was a huge success and made XV Kilist a recognized name in the progressive wave that was sweeping the psychedelic trance scene. He gradually became to play a big role in the musical development of this scene together with other Spiral Trax acts such as Atmos and Noma. Two years later XV Kilist released his self-titled debut album that became a milestone in the minimal trance movement. Kilian started playing violin at the age of nine. When he realized that playing an electric guitar was a lot cooler, he moved on to start a band. After four years of playing funk, the band split up and Kilian decided to study jazz in Luzern, Switzerland. The theory of music didn’t turn out to be his cup of tea and so he left a year after. He soon discovered that the weird sounds at trance parties were his thing; music with no boundaries and no rules. Kilian eventually developed his own unique sound, minimal, very rhythmic and with a heavy influence from his early funk days but still with a twisted touch of trance. Today Kilian runs a studio and the label Traktor Schalllabor with Ramon “Rocco” Rocchinotti. They are also acting as label managers for Gonso, one of the labels from ZAP Music. During the last five years Kilian and Rocco have been working together in various projects such as Lounge Control, Kilophil, Fiasko Systems, Rough Cuts and Uwe B. Alfa Aroma is the second artist album from XV Kilist, an album for which he decided to once again join the Spiral Trax collective. His first album was a great success for the label and it is an honour for them to release the follow-up. Alfa Aroma takes off right where the debut album had left us, in the typical XV Kilist style but with a clubbier feel. Kilian has once again surpassed the boundaries by developing his own unique style into a trance-house hybrid.