STEVE JOHANSON

His real name is Santi Serrate and He was born in Terrassa ( an industrial city very near to Barcelona ) in 1979. Santi Serrate is a young dj and producer that contacts with the world of dj and at night in 1993. The same year decides to buy his first equipment and his first vinyls without doubting it. Year 1995 arrives, after buying his first vinyl of Jeff Mills, he contacted with electronic music. As of that moment, and in spite of his precarious economic situation due to his youth, his money goes destined to buy vinyls of different styles of electronic music. References of Disko B, Kurbel, Purpose Maker, Tresor, Transmat. they begin to fill his suitcases and begins a time of experimentation with different styles and sounds. A time later, techno already comprises his life and the electronic music in general is his devotion. His sessions are based on techno and hard-techno, style that will maintain during several years. In 2000, his desire to experiment with new sounds take him to approach styles like the minimal and electro, very moved away of the forceful techno that during several years has accompanied him. Finally, his suitcases drain again, to open the way to these new sounds that accompany him until today. The same year and together with his best friend Deck Larsson (Roger Salmerón ). They decide to create the group Orange Noise to present his form to understand electronic music. Through this group Santi has expressed his philosophy with residences in several clubs, where also he has been in charge of the programming, to organize several events with more or less fortune, to participate in big events In 2004, Santi was marked like primary target, to be able to initiate his own label Properproud Label together with Roger. A label with a musical philosophy similar to Gigolo, where take place electro-techno and electro-house productions in the wave of Goodlife, Datapunk, Citizen, Hot Banana, Ozone, DanceFloorKillers, Turbo, Kitsune In this label has confirmed their participation producers of here and there like Millimetric (Goodlife), Human Body (Goodlife). Delon&Dalcan (Scandium/Boxer Recordings), Miss Yetti (Gold&Liebe), STAMBA (Hemisphere/A-Traction), Robert Calvin (Turbo Recordings), Projekto Hombre (UMF/Regular), HD_Substance (Shareware/Atlas), Crew Balance (Dona-li Record)..... And Steve Johanson and Deck Larsson too!!! At the moment Properproud already counts with four references in the market: VV.AA / I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT (PROPERPROUD 001) VV.AA / MINIMALÜSCULO CEREBRO (PROPERPROUD 002) MILLIMETRIC / ENGRENAGE E.P. (PROPERPROUD 003) HUMAN BODY / DIGITAL WAR E.P. (PROPERPROUD 004). Harvesting great success of critics in prestigious magazines as TRAX, DE:BUG, Raveline, Elegy, D-Side, etc.... And these references are played and charted by international dj' s like Dave Clarke, Miss Kittin, Ángel Molina, The Hacker, Alexander Robotnick, David Carretta, KIKO, etc Steve Johanson has played @:- Moog - Ciclik - Code Club - Zentrik - L' Eix Club - Backroom - Shock! @ Carib - Dob Club (Residence) - La Quadra - Warm Up Room (Residence) - Dodo Beach Club - Jolie Cosmonaute - El Ninot De La Ninet - Festival de Curts Baumann 2004 and 2005 - Loops - Loops Terrazza - Op Art among other clubs and big events. And He has played with Delon & Dalcan, Iñaky Marín, Jaümetic, STAMBA, Robert Calvin, Projekto Hombre, Sergei, HD Substance, etcAt the moment Santi begins to separate the minimal and electro of his sessions and productions. Using the name of Steve Johanson for the electro, EBM and electro-techno sessions and productions that more identify his label. And the alter ego of Santiago, for the productions and sessions based on minimal-techno and minimal-house. Santi has played with his alter ego @ Dodo Beach Club and Jolie Cosmonaute this last summer. His closest project is the production and publication of his first EP together with Deck Larsson, Miss Yetti and Christopher Kah in his own label Properproud, that will be the fifth reference of the label. VV.AA - PROPERPROUD 005.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1