ArtistInfo

Ten Walls

b, *1983
Musician / Producer of Dance
A.k.a. Marijus Adomaitis Mario Basanov Runemark (2)

Lithuanian DJ/Producer born 19 January 1983. Adomaitis received a classical music education, studying bassoon at the music faculty of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, and then music technology at the Chair of Audiovisual Arts of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas. After scoring a UK top 10 hit in September 2014 with "Walking With Elephants", Ten Walls made international headlines in June 2015 due to an extended anti-gay rant posted on Facebook, comparing homosexuals to paedophiles and calling them "the other breed". As a result, several festivals dropped him from their line-ups and his single "Sparta", about to be released, had its physical pressing cancelled. Ten Walls later issued a formal apology for the incident and resumed releasing music under this alias in 2016. Despite his first post-controversy release being the single "Shining", released through Lithuania's national LGBT rights organization and featuring transgender singer Alex Radford, his presence at certain events and festivals has continued to receive criticism. He runs his own labels, BOSO (2014-2015) and Runemark (2016-present.)

Genres

• Dance
• Electronic
• Classical