Steve Duda is an
American
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DJ, record producer, audio engineer, manager and software engineer from
Menlo Park, California. He is best known for his mid-2000s collaborative
electronic music projects with Canadian record producer and DJ
deadmau5 under the names "BSOD" and "WTF?" (also with DJ Aero and
Tommy Lee) and owning the
record label and digital music software company Xfer Records. He is also known for creating the
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* Vancouver School of Theology, a theological graduate school in British Columbia, Canada
* VST, Stockholm Västerås Airport in Sweden (IATA airport code)
* Vehicle safety technology
* Virtual Studio Technology, Steinberg's stand ...
plugin Serum.
Career
1990s: Beginnings
Duda studied
music composition at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. He later became a member of the Santa Cruz
rock band
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s named The Brothers of Other and Razorface. He later left the bands, and went on to work for the American
technology company
AVID.
In 1997, Duda left Santa Cruz to become an engineer and programmer for the American
industrial rock band
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band ...
, for which he was a programmer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist on their third studio album ''
The Fragile
''The Fragile'' is the third studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as a double album by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on September 21, 1999. It was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor ...
''.
In 1999, Duda moved to
Los Angeles to further pursue a career in music.
2000s: BSOD, Xfer Records, and WTF?
In 2005, Duda and Canadian record producer
Joel Zimmerman (deadmau5) formed the
electro house group BSOD and released their debut single "This Is The Hook" a year later. The song topped the
Beatport Top 100 chart, and went on to feature on deadmau5's 2008 compilation album ''
At Play
''At Play'' (also known as ''Deadmau5 at Play'' and ''At Play Vol. 1'') is a compilation album by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5. It is the first installment of Play Records' ''At Play'' series. It was released on October 20, 2008.
...
''. Later that year, the group self-released their debut album titled ''Pay Here To Click''.
Earlier that year, Duda also made several uncredited collaborations with deadmau5. Most notably, he performed vocals for "Porcelain" and co-wrote "Bitches" from Zimmerman's 2006 album ''
A Little Oblique
The following is a comprehensive discography of Deadmau5, a Canadian record producer and DJ. His discography most notably comprises eight studio albums, nine compilation albums, one soundtrack album, two video albums, seven mix albums, six exte ...
''.
In 2007, Duda and Zimmerman founded Xfer Records to continue to release music as BSOD, with the releases of ''Played Out EP'' and ''Last Life EP'' on Xfer.
In 2008, Duda, Zimmerman, DJ Aero and
Tommy Lee formed the
electro house group named WTF?. Later that year, they released their debut
EP ''Chicken'' on Xfer Records.
2010s: Serum and Xfer, Inc.
In 2014, Duda programmed, created and release
Serum a
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* Vancouver School of Theology, a theological graduate school in British Columbia, Canada
* VST, Stockholm Västerås Airport in Sweden (IATA airport code)
* Vehicle safety technology
* Virtual Studio Technology, Steinberg's stand ...
plugin to be used by DJs and producers in the
electronic dance music scene. Its
GUI was designed by Lance Thackeray. Serum later won multiple awards.
In 2016, Xfer partnered with
Splice
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Connections
* Rope splicing, joining two pieces of rope or cable by weaving the strands of each into the other
** Eye splice, a method of creating a permanent loop in the end of multi stranded rope by means of rope splicing
* ...
and announced a "rent-to-own" plan for Serum, allowing producers to own the plugin at a monthly cost.
In 2017, Duda announced that Xfer Records would be renamed Xfer, Inc.
Discography
As solo artist
EPs
* ''Fish'' (2011)
* ''Generation'' (2012)
* ''Cell By Cell'' (2013)
Remixes
* BSOD - Milton (Steve Duda Remix)
*
Moguai - ZYVOX (Steve Duda Remix)
*
Boom Jinx - Quadcore (Steve Duda Remix)
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