Centraal Trance Topic (45): Brian Transeau

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Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is an electronica musician who records under the stage name BT. When recording with other artists he has used the aliases Kaistar, Libra Dharma, Prana, Elastic Reality, Elastic Chakra, GTB and 2 Phat Cunts.

BT is a highly influential electronic musician. His techniques are frequently groundbreaking and trend setting. He is very well known in production circles for his signature technique, the stutter edit aka the BT stutter. This technique consists of taking a small sample of a sound and then repeating it in a musical as well as mathematical way. He is also one of the direct pioneers of time correction techniques. Time correction is where the producer takes a series of samples with random occurance (such as rain) and time corrects each individual hit according to a rythmic and mathematical grid- much like the BT stutter. The result is the seemingly random pulses take on a rythmic form as well as a developing pattern, but retain their chaotic unpredictable character.

Transeau claims to have an IQ of over 170. He has been playing piano since the age of 3 and attended Berklee School of Music for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, California.

Transeau's music was not well received in the United States, so he moved to Europe where his music was discovered by Sasha, a British DJ who introduced BT's music to the club circuit. Instantly popular, BT's 1996 album Ima helped shape the future of the burgeoning progressive house scene as it merged with, and later came to define, the trance music style. While Ima was comprised solely of the "progressive" sound, 1997's ESCM was more experimental (although it still produced several big records for the electronic dance music scene). BT's 1999 album Movement in Still Life continued his experimentation outside of the trance genre he helped to define through his more adventurous work and the more structured, commercially viable tracks. This album also featured a strong element of nu skool breaks, a genre he helped define with the classic Hip-Hop Phenomenon, in collaboration with Tsunami One. 2003 saw the release of Emotional Technology featuring more vocal tracks than usual, including six with vocals by Transeau. He also provided vocals on the DJ Tiësto single "Love Comes Again," and recently worked together with David Bowie on the song "(She Can) Do That," recorded for the movie Stealth (2005), which BT also composed the score for.

In recent years, he has also moved into film scoring, including Go (1999), Under Suspicion (2000), Driven (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and Monster (2003). He recently completed the score for Stealth (2005), as well as the score for Underclassman (2005).

Unlike many artists working in electronica, Transeau frequently performs his music live. In 2004, he did a very popular "last night of summer" concert at BT Tower (named for British Telecom).

He has a young daughter, Kaia. He lives and composes his works in his Los Angeles home studio.

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Op woensdag 29 maart 2006 17:13 schreef DreamAway het volgende:
tvp...
die vent hierboven ken ik niet...is dat erg?

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Op woensdag 29 maart 2006 18:11 schreef Xantra het volgende:


owja: BT vette producer, maar ik had stiekem op een ISOS-topic gehoopt, leek mij nl logisch

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Op woensdag 29 maart 2006 19:00 schreef Trancelocator het volgende:
Hoe wordt eigenlijk bepaald wie in de OP komt te staan?