BT
BT
Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971, in Rockville, Maryland) is an American musician who records under the stage name BT. Classically trained from the age of 13, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, California, and then back to Washington, D.C…
From an early age, BT, demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for playing and understanding classical music. He was heavily influenced by avant-garde and romantic composers such as Stravinsky, Bartok, Debussy and Rachmaninov.
BT is a pioneering artist in the trance genre. In recent years he has gained additional fame for producing several Hollywood film scores and the 2001 NSync hit "Pop". BT is known in production circles for his signature technique, the stutter edit, also known as the BT stutter. This technique consists of taking a small sample of a sound and then repeating it in a rhythmic way.
When recording with other artists, BT has used the aliases Kaistar, Libra, Dharma, Prana, Elastic Reality, Elastic Chakra, and GTB. After a short and unsuccessful stint in Los Angeles, BT moved back to the Washington, DC area where he had grown up and collaborated there with his friends Ali "Dubfire" and Sharam of Deep Dish in the early 1990s. Transeau's productions were not yet popular in the United States, and he had no idea that he had become a sensation across the Atlantic, where UK DJs like Sasha and Paul Oakenfold were regularly spinning his music for crowds. Sasha bought Transeau a ticket to London, where BT witnessed his own massive success; several thousand clubbers responded enthusiastically when Sasha played his song. He was soon signed to Oakenfold's record label, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. His British hits at this time were "A Moment of Truth" and "Relativity," and it was during this time in the UK that BT met Tori Amos.
BT has often appeared on the lists of the world's top DJs. In 2006, he ranked 73rd on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJ list. In 2005, he ranked 82nd, up from 92 in 2004. Additional rankings were 83rd in 2003 and 76 in 2001. More recently, in DJ Times, BT was ranked as America's second best DJ, as voted by fans.
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