AlienSteppa

Nickname: AlienSteppa Year: 1978 Location: Europe, Lithuania.AlienSteppa - an ideological founder and a head of CYBERNAUGHT alliance – is an organizer, DJ, producer, poet, writer and scriptwriter. He has been interested in music all his conscious life. The roots of his musical way can be found in his mother’s collection, which included the tunes of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Glen Miller, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Abba, etc. That was the basis which helped AlienSteppa to grow, filled him with intellectual vibrations and developed his love to the most beautiful art – the music. The above-mentioned performers made an important contribution to music, not to mention their financial success; their creative work brought the qualitative aspect into AlienSteppa’s choice of preferences in music: even though being 5 or 6 at that time, he never chose the music which was ‘cheap’ in terms of quality and popularity. Drifting in the sea of melodies and getting older, AlienSteppa started searching for his own side of the music, the one that sounded inside of him. As a result, his one true love – the electronic music. In the beginning of 1990’s it was Enigma that sounded most often at AlienSteppa’s home. To be more precise, it was a remixed album – Enigma & Other Gregorian Mysteries, the remixes created by techno DJs who were to become popular in the near future - Jens Lissat, Equinox, etc. These were the first steps made by AlienSteppa into the world of electronic music; by the end of 1991, when the compilation called Welcome to Technology got into his hands, he was already more confident. Having heard many styles of contemporary music, in Welcome to Technology he finally found what he longed for in music. Then he started to look for any compilation which had the word techno in the title. After about a year of searching, he came across some compilations in which heavier rhythms dominated. As a result, he found the whole spectrum of the contemporary music, which at that time was associated with the underground: European and British hardcore. Lenny Dee, Dj Dano, The Prophet, Gizmo, Laurent Ho, Technohead were common in AlienSteppa’s playlist. This period lasted until 1994, when the heaviness of hardcore was little by little taken over by something that changed AlienSteppa into a man presently known in Lithuania and the neighboring countries. This ‘something’ was the early stage of a universal style, now known as Drum’n’Bass, which was just coming to Lithuania and was called Jungle at that time. It began with a track from the Rave City compilation, called BassFace Sascha – Deep In Da Groove. Enormous amounts of positive energy, fast rhythm, depth and transparency of this composition radically changed AlienSteppa’s world. Then came LTJ Bukem – Demon’s Theme, Goldie – Inner City Life and two compilations mixed by BassFace Sascha – Jungle Fever 1–2 The Junglistic Revolution – that became the drum’n’bass Bible for AlienSteppa. He was carried away by that style; gradually compiling his collection of music and reading all sorts of music literature, AlienSteppa was getting more conscious about the whole spectrum of electronic music. 1997 saw the next stage of AlienSteppa’s musical development – he started a DJ’s career. For about half a year he played in a café Kavine prie Gedimino Kalno every Friday and Saturday. That is where he formed his views about DJs as artists. AlienSteppa was a self-taught DJ, but the quality of his music was getting better each time he played – the knowledge he got reading the music literature and the understanding of DJ’s work over turntables helped him in that. He played such underground drum’n’bass compositions as Lemon D. – This Is Los Angeles, Dillinja – You Don’t Know / Armoured D / The Angel’s Fell, Goldie – Kemistry, Ganja Kru – No Fear / Plague That never Ends, J. Majik – Your Sound, Source Direct – Enemy Lines / Capital D, Photek – Ni – Ten – Ichi – Ryu, Asylum – Da Base II Dark, etc. People attending these events liked such a selection and AlienSteppa was getting more popular. During the next few years he played at the private parties, getting more experienced. The beginning of 2002 saw the birth of a new massive stage in AlienSteppa’s career. Due to the well-organized parties in the Intro club, his name became famous in Lithuania as well as in some neighboring countries. He organized a series of weekly parties called DnB Eve in the Intro club, a series of events with Lithuanian and foreign DJs taking part in them and numerous parties in Lithuania as well as outside the country. From 2002 AlienSteppa tried working as a producer and succeeded writing his own music and making tracks. Practice showed that his tracks were popular among the d’n’b fans. In the end of 2002 he created a team of DJs naming it Artificial Dreaddaz, with Intakz (ex Capsulle), Babilan, and Roof in it, and analyzed the possibilities of launching a webpage that would include the information about the team and the history of contemporary electronic music. Nevertheless, in the beginning of 2004 the disagreements among the members resulted in breakup. AlienSteppa strived to achieve his goals and by the end of the year he launched a massive project called CYBERNAUGHT (The Eastern Europe Art Alliance). Such people as Magnetique, MC Psyooze and Nekyia joined the project together with Monte - the ‘computer brain’ of the CYBERNAUGHT webpage who was working with AlienSteppa to launch it. In 2006 the official webpage of CYBERNAUGHT (The Eastern Europe Art Alliance) appeared. 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