Born in the UK, Steve started taking piano lessons aged 7, but after buying "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC, he became more interested in playing the guitar. By 14 he was already going to rock concerts (Motörhead, Saxon, Iron Maiden) but he was also listening to electronic music such as the Human League and Tears for Fears. He saw Depeche Mode play in 1986 but after seeing Siouxsie and the Banshees play the same year he became more interested in bands like The Cult, The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and a band he saw twice at Reading Rock (his first-ever festival, 1987/1988) - Fields of the Nephilim.
After a year traveling around Europe, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt he returned to the UK, eager to get back to the festivals and the live music scene (Reading 1989/1990/1991 and Glastonbury 1990). Notable acts he saw during that time include New Model Army, Cardiacs, Gaye Bykers on Acid, and Jane’s Addiction. At the same time, the free party scene was exploding in the UK. He went to his first free rave in 1990, and his musical tastes quickly became exclusively electronic for many years thereafter. He went from free party to free party in his trusty pink and purple ambulance until the infamous Castle Morton festival in 1992, which is where he stumbled upon his first-ever Goa trance sound system. He started working at more organized events such as Fantasia but soon found himself traveling in Europe again, hanging out with the Mutoid Waste Company in Italy, bumping into Spiral Tribe in Prague, and even going to a DiY party in Poland.
After traveling to Moscow through Eastern Europe and the Baltics, he settled in Berlin for a year, where the Love Parade and the after-parties were the highlight of the year. From Berlin, he moved to a cave in the Canary Islands, which is where he made his first djembe (soon realizing he was a much better drummer than a guitarist). After a quick trip back to Berlin for the Love Parade (1996), he found his way to the Arts Factory in Byron Bay, Australia, from where he frequented the local doof parties. On his way back to Europe, he got sidetracked in Asia (Cambodia, Laos, and a long time in Thailand). He was soon helping out at the Black Moon parties on Ko Pha Ngan, but after a stint in Hong Kong, a trip back to the Glastonbury festival (1997), a return to the Love Parade (1997), and the first-ever Boom Festival, Portugal (1997), he arrived in Tokyo (1998) for the first time.
Japan was a center of the psy-trance scene for quite a few years, and it soon became his main residence. He started working at Stargate and Vision Quest parties, taking side trips to the legendary Solipse party in Hungary (1999), a NYE party in Morocco (2000), and the eclipse parties in Zambia (2001) and Australia (2002). He spent a season in Goa and some time in Bali, a few months in Hawaii, and more time in Thailand. However, it was after a trip to Burning Man (2000), while he was living at the CCC in San Francisco (a psy-trance epicenter that spawned San Francisco’s annual How Weird Street Faire) that he first met Dr. Spook (Geomagnetic). After being impressed by his DJ set at a CCC party, Dr. Spook invited him to play at one of his beach parties. After California Steve spent a few years back in the UK, revisiting the Boom festival (2004) and then moving to Barcelona for a year. He returned to Japan in 2005 for 6 months and then spent a summer in Ibiza before returning to the UK again. In 2007, he had an unfortunate accident at a registry office, involving a pen and a Japanese girl and has been back, living in Japan since 2010.
Not really suited to staying sober at parties, Steve prefers playing drums to DJing but it was back in 2001, while working as a DJ in Japanese strip clubs, that he realized he needed a computer to organize his music. This turned out to be the beginning of a long, slow journey into computer audio literacy, which led, eventually, to his first release - Spaghettification, now available on the Geomagnetic record label, 24 years after their first party together, playing under the night sky of San Francisco.
