Rubin Steiner (born Frédérick Landier,

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, ) is a French guitar, bass, and keyboard musician, and

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specialising in

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to r ...

. He worked as a radio presenter between 1992 and 2002 for Radio béton in Tours, with a programme of

free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during ...

, electro,

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, and experimental music. He organized concerts in Tours, edited a music fanzine, and was a guitarist in the group Merz from 1996 to 1998. His main influences are jazz, hip hop, punk rock, 1980s American music and pop, which he arranges into albums of electro-jazz, electronica,

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, pop, punk disco,

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, and

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. He was nominated for the in 2006 for his album ''Drum Major''.

Chronology

1999–2000 A

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sampler with Placido (of de Loo & Placido), then concerts with Placido, Boulez Republic, Horn Pusher, Volvo Traxx, and Francois Pirault under the name of Dance Hall Music Show. 2000–2001: Going solo with samplers and synthesizer, with videos by VJ François Pirault. 2001–2003: Samples, guitar, and singing in a quartet with Sylvestre Perrusson (bass), Benoit Louette (trombone), and François Pirault as VJ. 2003–2008: Played guitar, samples, synthesizer, and singing in a new quartet, Rubin Steiner Neue Band, with Boogers (drums), Olivier Claveau (guitar, trumpet, trombone), and Sylvestre Perrusson (bass). 2008–2009: Formed Neue Band with Lionel Laquerrière of Nestor Is Bianca, replacing Sylvestre Perrusson on bass. 2009: Recorded an album with the post-punk group The Finkielkrauts (released 2010 on Another Records ic!-- has this in WP:FR, not d'ailleurs as below, which it also has below -->). 2010: Made an old school hip hop album with Canadian rapper Ira Lee. Their title "Gay & Proud" was used as the official song of

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2011 in Tours. 2010: Participated in Nublu Orchestra performance , conducted by Butch Morris. Since 2010 he has played with Olivier Claveau, Lionel Laquerrière, and Yann Dupeux in Rubin Steiner & The Simple Machines, using only

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s and rhythm boxes. He has also continued as the programme planner of Le Temps Machine, playing in

Discography

Albums

* 1998 ''Lo-fi nu jazz'' (autoprod) * 2000 ''Lo-fi nu jazz vol.2'' (Platinum records) * 2001 ''Lo-fi nu jazz vol.2 + remixes'' (Platinum records) * 2002 ''Wunderbar drei'' (Platinum records) * 2003 ''Test recordings'' (Platinum records) * 2005 ''Drum Major'' (Platinum records) * 2008 ''Weird hits, two covers & a love song'' (Platinum records) * 2009 ''More weird hits'' (Platinum records) * 2010 ''Play With The Tapes #1'' (Platinum records) * 2011 ''We are the future'' (Platinum records) (With IRA Lee) * 2012 ''Discipline In Anarchy'' (Platinum records)

Remixes

* 2001 ''Inséparable mais'' by Arthur H * 2001 ''Chépa'' by Ivan Hio * 2001 ''Le disco chinois'' by Julien Ribot * 2001 ''Donkey Racing'' by Mr Neveux * 2001 ''Satellite'' by Bosco * 2002 ''?'' by Nestor Is Bianca * 2002 ''Les Poupons / B.O.'' by François de Roubaix * 2004 ''?'' by Bless * 2004 ''You/You'' by Boogers * 2005 ''Oscar De La Hoya'' by Capt'ain K.Verne * 2006 ''Move'' by Dillinger Girl & Baby Face Nelson * 2007 ''7 tracks'' by Bikini Machine * 2009 ''Target'' by Fortune * 2010 ''Push It To The Limit'' by Bosco, remix by The Motherbeepers (Rubin Steiner, Ira Lee & Funken) * 2010 ''Eagles don't Sparkle'' by We Are Enfant Terrible * 2010 ''Brothers & Sisters'' by Unison * 2010 ''I'm not John Mc Entire'' by Kid Francescoli * 2012 ''Eagles don't Sparkle'' by We Are Enfant Terrible * 2012 ''Future Echo'' by The Oscillation * 2012 ''Cum Operated'' by Jerri

Maxis and EPs

* 1999 ''Easy Tune ep'' (UHS) * 2001 ''Midi Jazz'' 7" (Platinum records) * 2001 ''New Bossa'' 7" (Platinum records) * 2001 ''Tango'' 7" (Platinum records) * 2002 ''Guitarlandia Remixes'' remix by Bosco, Mr Neveux, Up, Bustel & Out, Dj Vadim, TTC, Mr Quark (Platinum records) * 2003 ''Test Recordings vol.1'' (Platinum records) * 2005 ''Your life is like a Tony Conrad Concert'' (Platinum records) * 2008 ''Take Your Time'' (Platinum records) * 2012 ''Dexter'' (Platinum records)

Other

* 2002 ''Camping Car'' for Camping Car - Rubin Steiner & Mme Douze (Travaux publics) * 2004 ''Oumupo 3'' with Luz ( Ici, d'ailleurs...) * Compilations on the Travaux publics label

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Steiner, Rubin 1974 births Living people