Steve Stoll (born 1967, as ''Stephen Stollmeyer'') is an American

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...

musician and label owner. Stoll also produces under monikers such as Acid Farm, Ausgang, The Blunted Boy Wonder, Cobalt, Critical Mass, Dark Man, Datacloud, Floating Point, Mr. Proper, The Operator, Storm, Systematic, Test Tones and Time Attack.

Life

Stoll was born in

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, and raised in

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, where he learned to play drums.Q&A session with Steve Stoll
, elektraxmusic.com, retrieved 1 April 2014 He had three siblings, a brother named Glen, and two sisters, Dorothy and Maria. In the late 1980s he became interested in electronic music while he was drumming for the independent label

Wax Trax! Records Wax Trax! Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago. It began as a record shop in Denver, Colorado, opened by life partners Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, who sold the store in 1978 and moved to Chicago. In November of that y ...

. After high school he joined the US Army and served for five years, most notably in the

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. After his release he played drums for

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, studied Jazz music and later started to produce techno music. He was signed by

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's label ''Probe'' in 1992, where his first solo release ''Datacloud'' was released in 1993.Steve Stoll Bio
audiobase.com, retrieved 1 April 2014 Since the mid 1990s he produced a string of

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and

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releases. He also collaborated with musicians such as

Pete Namlook Pete Namlook (born 25 November 1960 as Peter Kuhlmann in Frankfurt, West Germany – 8 November 2012) was an ambient and electronic music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversaw. He ...

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, Damon Wild and Patrick Codenys of

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.Steve Stoll: Return of the Locked-Groove Monster
ableton.com, retrieved 1 April 2014 Besides releases for novamute, Music Man and Djax-Up-Beats he also runs his own label Proper NYC. Steve left the public eye around 2017 with his final live performance. He does not maintain any social media and prefers to work in solitude producing under multiple aliases.

Selected discography

* 1994: Storm – ''The Art Of Sync'' (Djax-Up-Beats) * 1995: Acid Farm – ''The Silver Spiral'' (Proper N.Y.C.) * 1996: The Operator – ''Zero Divide'' ( Play It Again Sam) * 1997: Steve Stoll – ''Damn Analog Technology'' (Sm:)e Communications) * 1998: Steve Stoll – ''The Big Apple Bites Back'' (Mirakkle Records) * 1998: Steve Stoll – ''The Blunted Boy Wonder'' (NovaMute) * 1999: Steve Stoll – ''Supernatural'' (Proper N.Y.C.) * 2000: Steve Stoll presents The Blunted Boy Wonder – ''Innuendo'' (Music Man Records) * 2002: Steve Stoll – ''Public Address Live'' (Proper N.Y.C.) * 2003: Steve Stoll – ''Was Here'' (

FAX +49-69/450464 FAX +49-69/450464 (also known as simply Fax or Fax Label) was a German record label founded in Frankfurt in 1992 by ambient musician Peter Kuhlmann (who recorded as Pete Namlook, a phonetic inversion of his surname). It was originally devoted t ...

) * 2005: Steve Stoll – ''Exiled'' (FAX +49-69/450464) * 2008: Steve Stoll – ''Locate'' (Locate) * 2008: Steve Stoll – ''Zero Point Crossings'' (FAX +49-69/450464) * 2009: Jeff Green & Steve Stoll – ''Tangled'' (Databloem) * 2014: Steve Stoll – ''Praxis'' (Psychonavigation Records)

External links

* *
Steve Stoll
at

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Steve Stoll
at Kompaktkiste.de

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stoll, Steve 1967 births Living people Record producers from New York (state) American techno musicians Musicians from Brooklyn Musicians from Staten Island United States Army soldiers