Steve Duda is an American DJ, record producer, audio engineer, manager and software engineer from

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. He is best known for his mid-2000s collaborative

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projects with Canadian record producer and DJ

deadmau5 Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (stylized as deadmau5; pronounced "dead-mouse"), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. He mainly produces progressive house music, though he also produce ...

under the names "BSOD" and "WTF?" (also with DJ Aero and

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) and owning the

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and digital music software company Xfer Records. He is also known for creating the VST plugin Serum.

Career

1990s: Beginnings

Duda studied

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at the

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. He later became a member of the Santa Cruz rock bands named The Brothers of Other and Razorface. He later left the bands, and went on to work for the American

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company AVID. In 1997, Duda left Santa Cruz to become an engineer and programmer for the American

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band Nine Inch Nails, for which he was a programmer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist on their third studio album '' The Fragile''. In 1999, Duda moved to

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to further pursue a career in music.

2000s: BSOD, Xfer Records, and WTF?

In 2005, Duda and Canadian record producer

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(deadmau5) formed the

electro house Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 130 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many ''DJ Mag'' Top 100 DJs, including Benny Benassi, Skrillex, Steve Aok ...

group BSOD and released their debut single "This Is The Hook" a year later. The song topped the Beatport Top 100 chart, and went on to feature on deadmau5's 2008 compilation album '' At Play''. Later that year, the group self-released their debut album titled ''Pay Here To Click''. Earlier that year, Duda also made several uncredited collaborations with deadmau5. Most notably, he performed vocals for "Porcelain" and co-wrote "Bitches" from Zimmerman's 2006 album '' A Little Oblique''. In 2007, Duda and Zimmerman founded Xfer Records to continue to release music as BSOD, with the releases of ''Played Out EP'' and ''Last Life EP'' on Xfer. In 2008, Duda, Zimmerman, DJ Aero and

formed the

group named WTF?. Later that year, they released their debut EP ''Chicken'' on Xfer Records.

2010s: Serum and Xfer, Inc.

In 2014, Duda programmed, created and release
Serum
a VST plugin to be used by DJs and producers in the electronic dance music scene. Its

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was designed by Lance Thackeray. Serum later won multiple awards. In 2016, Xfer partnered with Splice and announced a "rent-to-own" plan for Serum, allowing producers to own the plugin at a monthly cost. In 2017, Duda announced that Xfer Records would be renamed Xfer, Inc.

Discography

As solo artist

EPs

* ''Fish'' (2011) * ''Generation'' (2012) * ''Cell By Cell'' (2013)

Remixes

* BSOD - Milton (Steve Duda Remix) *

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- ZYVOX (Steve Duda Remix) *

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- Quadcore (Steve Duda Remix) * Nonplus - Playdate (Steve Duda Remix)

With BSOD

Studio albums

* ''Pay Here To Click'' (2006)

EPs

* ''Played Out'' (2007) * ''Last Life'' (2008) * ''No Way, Get Real'' (2020)

Singles

* "This Is The Hook" (2006) * "Milton" (2008)

With WTF?

EPs

* ''Chicken'' (2008) * ''Redic / CEABA55555'' (2008)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duda, Steve American DJs Living people Mau5trap artists Year of birth missing (living people)