Eli Brown's first real record was drum & bass, not techno — he came up on Bristol's jungle and rave scene through cassette tapes his older siblings had lying around in the early '90s, and his first big release actually hit No. 1 on the UK Dance Chart as one half of a touring DnB duo. That's not the genre he's known for now.
He switched to house and techno somewhere along the way, signing to labels like Skream's Of Unsound Mind, Toolroom, and Drumcode, and effectively built a second career from scratch starting around 2016 — brooding, driving, low-end-heavy productions built for big rooms rather than small clubs.
That second career has outgrown the first by a wide margin: more than 3 million monthly Spotify listeners, 254 million cumulative streams, and co-signs from Carl Cox and Adam Beyer, names that carry more weight in techno than any chart position does.