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Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is a musician who records under the stage name BT. Classically trained from the age of thirteen, he attended Berklee School of Music in Bost

Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is a musician who records under the stage name BT. Classically trained from the age of thirteen, he attended Berklee School of Music in Boston for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, California, and then back to Washington, D.C..

Transeau's music was not very well received in the United States, and he moved temporarily to Europe where his music was discovered by Sasha, a British DJ who introduced BT's music into the club circuit. Instantly popular, BT's 1996 album Ima helped shape the future of the burgeoning progressive house scene as it merged with, and later came to define, the trance music style. However, unlike so many artists of the trance genre, BT has lost neither his momentum nor his edge. While Ima was comprised solely of the "progressive" sound, 1997's ESCM was more experimental (although it still produced several big records for the electronic dance music scene). BT's 1999 album Movement in Still Life continued his experimentation outside of the trance genre he helped to define through an interesting dichotomy emerged between his more adventurous work and the more structured, commercially viable tracks. This album also featured a strong element of nu skool breaks, a genre he helped define with the classic Hip-Hop Phenomenon, in collaboration with Tsunami One. 2003 saw the release of Emotional Technology featuring more vocal tracks than usual, including six with vocals by Transeau. He also provided vocals on the DJ Tiësto single "Love Comes Again", and recently worked together with David Bowie on the song "(She Can) Do That", recorded for the movie Stealth (2005), which BT also composed the score for.