BIOGRAPHY
You know the Stephane K sound - very deep, often dark and always
sexy as hell - straight from the grooviest alleys of New York City and
into the world's best clubs. Superstar DJs John Digweed, Danny Howells,
Danny Tenaglia and Pete Tong were among the first to champion the
Stephane K sound and made it an international sensation. What was "the
new sound of New York" has gone well beyond the banks of this
metropolis and is now a global craze.
There is a certain texture and mood to every track. Stephane has an
affinity for good, quality vocals (but not the over-the-top diva kind),
steamy percussion and twisted, tribal efx. This formula has been used
time and again in the construction of some of the most popular remixes
of the last decade. Stellar remix portfolio includes reworkings of
Kosheen's "Hide U", Satoshi Tomiie's "Love In Traffic", New Order's
"Crystal", Nat Monday's "Waiting", Hybrid's "True To Form", Moony's
"Doves", Puretone's "Addicted To Bass", The Crystal Method's "You
Know It's Hard", Sinead O'Connor's "Troy" and Iio's classic anthem,
"Rapture". Although this list features artists representing many different
musical styles, they have one thing in common - these tracks have all
been made into dance floor hits.
Most notable are the remixes of Kosheen's "Hide U" (which won them
remix of the year at the 2001 Muzik Awards, entered the UK Top 10 at
6 and topped Billboard's Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart), Sinead
O'Connor's "Troy" (topped Billboard's Hot Dance Music / Club Play
chart) and Iio's "Rapture" (hit 2 on both the U.K. singles chart and on
the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.) Beyond remixing, their
acclaimed original productions including "I Love You" and "Wish You
Were Here" continue to earn them respect worldwide.
Stephane K got his start in rock music. The New York resident - by way
of Paris and Tokyo - first started out as a bass player in the progressive
rock band E Trance and performed with the group at legendary digs
like CBGB's and the Knitting Factory. In the early 90's Stephane was also
converted by the original Sound Factory and quickly made the shift
over to house music production. His first house productions came via a
collaborative effort with DJ Katsu under the name Madam. Stephane
later went on to record tracks with Satoshi Tomiie under the name
Bipath and continues to dabble into the production of his own tracks,
most notably "Numb" and "Insane Poem", co-produced with PQM. Being
an A&R man with Eightball, Creamer was quite familiar with Madam's
production ability and hired them to remix an Eightball project. A close
relationship soon developed between Creamer and K, and they soon
began collaborating together with a mutual desire to create vocaldriven
tracks. This was quite a bold move when you consider that at the
time, long, drawn-out instrumentals were the name of the game in dance
music. Well, the rest as they say, is history.
THE ORIGINAL DJ STYLE
Stephane original Dj style syncs uses laptops similar to the method used
by recently by perfromers such as Sasha, Paul Van Dyk, Armin, Anthony
Pappa, Josh Wink, Francios K etc,- indeed Stephane has been
performing as A DJ this way, and 2004 has already seen Stephane DJ in
- Italy, UK, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Greece, Cypress, Japan, China, Taiwan,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina,
Dominican Republic, russia, india, sli lanka and theres more to come- in
April this year Stephane showed the depth of his tribal heritage when he
performed a New York Long Style 9 hr Tribal House set to a pack
throng of clubbers at Tokyo's Air Club.
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