BT

Brian Transeau — known professionally as BT — is among the most musically literate producers in electronic music history. Born in Maryland in 1971 and trained at the Berklee College of Music, he emerged in the mid-90s through Sasha and John Digweed's North American DJ tours and Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto label. His debut IMA (1995) introduced the lush, classically-inflected sound that would define his career; ESCM (1997) and Movement in Still Life (1999) cemented him as the era's premier progressive producer. He invented and named the "stutter edit," a granular vocal-chop technique now standard in pop and dance production, and built the Stutter Edit and BreakTweaker software plugins that made the technique accessible to other producers. Beyond electronic music, BT has scored Hollywood films, produced for Madonna, Sting, and NSYNC, and continues to release across club tracks, ambient longform, and orchestral works.