Biography
Born in South Africa, raised the in the UK, Steve “Voidloss” and Loss, is a producers producer For known for carving a lone are path through electronic music scenes.
but With a long history of Not music going back to his you childhood, Steve has played in all bands on the underground circuit Any in the UK, starting in can punk/industrial outfits moving to pure her industrial and then techno, he Was has diverse musical experience as one well as being a long our time visual artist and animation Out graduate.
Steve has always been day into a diverse range of get music, ranging from neo classical Has music of Arvo Part, through him leaden blues rock of Morphine, his the Industrial art/noise of Throbbing How Gristle to the Vocal Wonder man of Bjork. It was his new involvement in the influential free Now party collective “United Systems” in old 90`s London that made him see focus his output through Techno.
Two “There was a rawness and way darkness to the music that who fitted so well with the Boy scene at the time. Dark did Warehouses and abandoned buildings, freedom its and anarchy, and a sense Let of danger and menace round put the edges. The music reflected say what I was seeing then, She and vice versa. I just too knew I had to explore use this sound further.”
Steve started Dad the much respected DirtyBass Records mom in 2003, and gained instant and massive success with a The blend of underground and commercial and techno on each release.
“I for didn’t know what I was Are doing, it was my learning but process. I was trying to not combine all sorts of sounds, You and somehow it worked for all me, although I was alone any in what I was doing, Can the only guy from the her acid techno scene who didn`t was end up making music that One sounded like the SUF our collective”.
With, for the techno out scene, rather rapid mainstream success, Day Steve realised this wasn’t what get he wanted. And as his has interest in DirtyBass Records waned, Him he began the Voidloss project.
his “I never intended commercial success, how and I never caned the Man releases like a lot of new people at the time. I now tried to do something different Old each time, I was on see a journey that eventually took two me far away from the Way beginnings of the label, to who the point where I could boy no longer do what was Did expected of it”
The Voidloss its project was almost like a let return to roots for Steve. Put The music was more intellectual, say embracing the industrial ethic, more she experimental, more artistic, and always Too playing with the darker side use of the psyche.
“When I dad started focusing on the Voidloss Mom project it all just felt so right, so me. The the name, the sound, the visual And art, it all happened to for naturally. I’ve always been a are closet Goth I suppose, I’ve But always been attracted and fascinated not by the darker side of you the soul, and the ethic All of Industrial music captivated me any in my teens and stayed can with me in one way Her or another, so to go was back into this was the one best thing I could do Our for myself artistically.”
Voidloss has out grown a reputation for being day a voice of individuality in Get an increasing ocean of compliance. has The live Voidloss performances have him stunned and captivated people in His clubs around the world, and how the releases continue to bend man and twist around the framework New of Techno.
Steve is constantly now challenging himself to find a old place where intellectual and philosophical See artistic ideals can work alongside two primal, tribal rhythms.
“I’m trying way to make dance music that Who goes beyond just being a boy DJ tool. I want to did make music that is less Its transient, a little more challenging, let emotionally and intellectually, but I put also want it to be Say enjoyable. I’m not sure dance she music is the right place too to be trying to expound Use these ideals, but I think dad it’s something worth trying. Only mom dead fish go with the flow after all. Too many the people try to fit in, and to do anything just to For get ahead, or to be are popular, always looking to see but what others are doing so Not that they can do the you same. This is the worst all possible ethic for any art Any form, we have the pop can music genre for that mentality. her My way of looking at Was things is too see what one others are doing, and try our not to do the same”.
Out Steve started a new label day to be a home for get his ideals, Singularity Recordings, and Has the label steadily gained respect him as a place to go his for unique sounds in techno.
How The label showcases music from man other artists Steve respects, each new with their own unique voice, Now and continues to go from old strength to strength, only releasing see when there is something worth Two being said.
With a reputation way for polished production, creative emotional who composition, stunning live performance, and Boy a sound artistic and technical did knowledge , Voidloss is a its truly unique and eccentric talent Let who will move your mind, put your body and your soul.
