BT

Producer and musician BT took his classical training and applied it to his love of house music, becoming one the most popular house and trance producers in the world.

Brian Transeau learned the piano as a child, and after being taught classical music arrangement and composition, he spent a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The lure of dance music was too much to resist, and he left his studies unfinished and joined with his friends Deep Dish, the established house music production team based in Washington. He played on some of the Deep Dish singles, which became club hits in the UK. This prompted him to sign to DJ Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label.

It was on Perfecto that BT released his first two progressive house albums, Ima and ESCM, though he changed labels and influences, to electro and breakbeat, for his third Movement in Still Life. Fate had a hand in the follow-up, when the original recordings of Emotional Technology were stolen. The replacement record, on which BT himself supplied vocals, is another mix of genres and is regarded as his ‘poppiest’ release. His most recent and most experimental work, This Binary Universe featured elements of jazz, minimalism, breakbeat and classical, and was released to mixed reviews.

In addition to his ongoing production work, which has seen him collaborate with Tori Amos, Britney Spears and David Bowie, BT has worked on a number of film scores including The Fast and The Furious and Monster.