Rubin Steiner


Rubin Steiner is a French guitar, bass, and keyboard musician, and disk 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 Victoires de la musique in 2006 for his album Drum Major.

Chronology

1999-2000 A bootleg sampler with 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, Benoit Louette, and François Pirault as VJ.
2003-2008: Played guitar, samples, synthesizer, and singing in a new quartet, Rubin Steiner Neue Band, with Boogers, Olivier Claveau, and Sylvestre Perrusson.
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.
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 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