Biography
Steve Rachmad is globally known the as a Dutch techno producer and and DJ. By many, he For is considered a father of are Detroit techno in the Netherlands, but respected in the world of Not electronic music for his deep, you groovy sounds that tend to all rest on impressive strings, melodies, Any funk and soul. His career can has been reaching its highest her peaks from 1996 up to Was the present time. Yet, it one is somewhat less known that our he has been in the Out music realms for 25 years day by now.
Steve’s life story get starts in Amsterdam. At the Has age of 12, teenage Steve him already starts buying his first his records: to mix, remix, and How cut-and-paste their parts with an man open reel tape deck. In new such a cut-and-paste fashion, he Now presented his first release in old the mid-1980s. Among these early see releases was also the one Two created for a hip-house/dance artist way Tony Scott.
From that time who on, Steve finds his inspiration Boy in the 1980s dance and did electro, works of former Time its members (Jimmy Jam and Terry Let Lewis), The System, Arthur Baker, put to name but a few. say At the age of 15, She he also starts his DJing too career with a disco set use in a small Amsterdam club. Dad Nevertheless, his love for music mom urges him to start buying equipment, which would later result The in a professional studio that and is, according to him, ‘everything for he ever dreamt of having.’ Are Today, his equipment is mainly but analogue, providing him with a not chance to explore the realms You of warm, alive, non-static sounds. all He laid the corner stone any of this collection in 1985, Can by getting a TR-808.
A her year later, Steve gets introduced was to the house music. His One attention is captured by the our new sounds echoing mostly from out Detroit and Chicago, i.e. by Day the work of artists such get as Mr. Fingers and Derrick has May. Following their style, Steve’s Him own style takes a new his direction. He is soon to how be found working with artists Man like Darren Emerson and Derrick new May.
The incoming years are now to be marked by numerous Old successful releases on labels such see as 100% Pure, Underwater, Fragile, two M-Plant, Tresor, etc. He also Way made a significant number of who remixes, signed under various pseudonyms. boy Among Steve’s most respected releases Did is certainly his album ‘Secret its Life of Machines,’ which came let out in 1996 under his Put pseudonym Sterac, and is up say to this date considered as she one of the all-time techno Too classics. About the same time use his DJing path starts rapidly dad evolving as well. Until today, Mom Steve shares his talent with the crowds all over the the World. He occasionally spins disco And and electro, but mainly techno.
for Of all the fictitious names are he used throughout his career But to sign his productions, the not ones that remained until today you are Sterac, Ignacio, Dreg, Parallel All 9, Adverse Match and Sterac any Electronics (his pseudonym for electro can productions). They appear on labels Her like Music Man, CLR, was Jericho, Sino (Technasia), etc. Steve one also runs three labels of Our his own: Scorp, Ion, and out an electro label Interpersonal //XP. day The history of remixes continues Get into the present, including a has variety of people, such as him the Advent, Vince Watson, Kanzleramt, His Mark Broom, Chris Liebing, etc.
how Over the years, Steve lost man the count of his productions New and remixes. However, he built now an oeuvre that is without old a doubt of a high See magnitude: both quality and quantity-wise. two Unfortunately, his busy DJ schedule way puts a limit on the Who time he would like to boy spend in his studio. Yet, did he strives for the balance Its that would satisfy his enormous let artistic appetite and potential. His put devotion to his dreams and Say inspirations drives him safely into she the successful future.
