For Episode 17 of the UNSUNG podcast, @mixedbyjocelin and Mirek Stiles were joined by artist/DJ/Producer/Composer/Engineer BT in Los Angeles at Just For The Record Recording Studios.
BT is a GRAMMY-nominated electronic music composer, software developer, DJ, and film composer. He has produced, collaborated, and written with a variety of artists including: Armin van Buuren, David Bowie, Madonna, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Tiësto, and many more. As a film composer, he has composed original scores for films such as ‘The Fast and the Furious’, ‘Monster’, and ‘Go’.
Before enrolling at Berklee, BT took a short internship in a local studio. During his experiments chopping and splicing 1/4 inch tape after hours at the studio, he discovered a production technique he would later coin “stutter editing.” Years later, in 2011, BT would release the Stutter Edit plugin with iZotope, based on BT’s patented technique of real-time manipulation of digital audio. He would go on to develop more plugins including: BreakTweaker (iZotope), Phobos (Spitfire Audio), and more recently MicDrop (Soundlabs AI).
In this episode, BT talks about his musical beginnings, being the youngest student to enroll at Berklee at age 15, discovering Chicago House music, starting his own record label, signing his first record deal, moving his career to the UK, 90s Dance Music culture in the UK vs US, being part of the 90s UK Rave scene, approaching Electronic music with a classical approach, his interest in technology and coding, the story of the Stutter Edit, how he gets inspired, recording at Abbey Road, the story behind his plugin MicDrop, and closing with advice for aspiring music makers/technologists.
