Thomas J. Stépien
Who is Teknobrat? Hailing from Montreal yet currently living in Ottawa, Teknobrat has been in the scene since 1987!
His prior musical training includes having studied the trumpet and piano at the Musical Academy in Canterbury High School in Ottawa. Teknobrat has worked for 11 years at ABM Records in Ottawa, a dance music record shop selling all kinds of electronic music and with several European techno/house distributors such as INDISC, PIAS, PRIME, CYBER and KUBIK.
At this time, he has an ever-growing music library comprising of an astounding 5,000+ albums. The early Detroit techno sounds is in his blood and soul as well as the early chicago acid House and Ghetto Trax sounds from the end of the 80's early 90's.
Teknobrat can been seen weaving Minimal Tech House/ Electro/Funky & Tribal Techno/ Acid House / Detroit Techno/ House and essential underground Disco Classics at the leading and underground parties.
In addition to playing these venues, he also had his own radio shows: LA TEKNOSPHERE RADIO SHOW on wich aired on CHUO 89.1 FM, Ottawa,Canada from Sept 1997 to Feb 2005 & PLANET RAVE, aired on CKCU 93.1 FM from 1991 to 1997.
He released his first vinyl offering, Teknobrat Trax Vol.1, on Komatsu Records (HOVE, BELGIUM) in 1997 and recently released on Ascend Recordings in mid 2004. Teknobrat has also produced many releases on some of the finest reputated techno house labels in the world such as Circle Music, Missile Records, Hemisphere Records + a recent killer release on Malec Recordings Germany,and the young
underground dutch label Convoi Exceptionnel.
With more killer projects on the works soon to be released
on the best quality imprints.