BT

American-born musician, BT is the stage name of Brian Transeau. Classically trained, Transeau's music was for some reason not very well received in the United States during the early 1990s. However, Transeau moved temporarily to Europe where his music was discovered by Sasha?, a British DJ who introduced BT's music into the club circuit. Instantly popular, BT's 1996 album Ima helped shape the future of the burgeoning progressive house scene as it merged with and later came to define the trance music style. However, unlike so many artists of the trance genre, BT has lost neither his momentum nor his edge. While Ima was comprised solely of the "progressive" sound, 1997's ESCM was more experimental (though it still produced several big records for the EDM scene). BT's 1999 album Movement in Still Life continued his experimentation outside of the trance genre he helped to define, though an interesting dichotomy emerged between his more adventurous work and the more structured, commercially viable tracks.

Also of interesting note, unlike many EDM artists, Transeau frequently performs his music live on-stage.

More information is available at http://www.btmusic.com

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