Brian Transeau

BT is the stage name of musician Brian Transeau. Born in Maryland, and classically trained from the age of thirteen, he attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, then back to Washington, DC.

For some reason Transeau's music was not very well received in the United States during the early 1990s, however he moved temporarily to Europe where his music was discovered by Sasha, a British DJ who introduced BT's music into the club circuit. Instantly popular, BT's 1996 album Ima helped shape the future of the burgeoning progressive house scene as it merged with, and later came to define, the trance music style. However, unlike so many artists of the trance genre, BT has lost neither his momentum nor his edge. While Ima was comprised solely of the "progressive" sound, 1997's ESCM was more experimental (although it still produced several big records for the electronic dance music scene). BT's 1999 album Movement in Still Life continued his experimentation outside of the trance genre he helped to define, though an interesting dichotomy emerged between his more adventurous work and the more structured, commercially viable tracks. 2003 saw the release of Emotional Technology featuring more vocal tracks than usual, including six with vocals by Transeau.

In recent years he has also moved into film scoring including Go! (1999), Under Suspicion (2000), Driven (2001) and The Fast and the Furious (2001). Also of note, unlike many artists working in electronica, Transeau frequently performs his music live on-stage.