Rubin Steiner Explained

Rubin Steiner
Birth Name:Frédérick Landier
Birth Date:30 October 1974
Birth Place:Tours, France
Genre:Electronic music
Occupation:Musician, DJ, radio presenter
Instrument:Guitar, bass, keyboard
Years Active:1997–present

Rubin Steiner (born Frédérick Landier, Tours, 30 October 1974) is a French guitar, bass, and keyboard musician, and disc jockey specialising in electronica.

He worked as a radio presenter between 1992 and 2002 for Radio béton in Tours, with a programme of free jazz, electro, punk, 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, krautrock, pop, punk disco, post-punk, house music, and techno.

He was nominated for the French: Victoires de la musique in 2006 for his album Drum Major.

Chronology

1999 - 2000 A bootleg 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 [sic]).

2010: Made an old school hip hop album with Canadian rapper Ira Lee. Their title "Gay & Proud" was used as the official song of Gay Pride 2011 in Tours.

2010: Participated in Nublu Orchestra performance French: Conduction N°190, Tête-à-Tête, 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 analog synthesizers and rhythm boxes.

He has also continued as the programme planner of Le Temps Machine, playing in Tours.

Discography

Albums

Remixes

Maxis and EPs

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