Steve Albini is a musician of Rock, principal member of the old group of Punk hardcore Big Black and current producing Shellac, critical musical and . Its inventiveness, its intransigence and its technique of the sound do of them one of the most interesting characters of the Rock independent of the end of the 20th century. Its musical influence extends from Nine Inch Nails to the many artists of which it produced albums, among which one can quote the Pixies, Nirvana, or PJ Harvey.

Big Black

See also: Big Black

Steve Albini gives rise to Big black in 1982 with the album Lungs which it only records, by ensuring the Guitare, the low , and the management of the Boîte at rates/rhythms. The music of Big Black is of an extreme aggressiveness, as much by the sound of the instruments that by the song. The box at rates/rhythms gives a hypnotic and linear screen, while the guitar delivers a very acute and metal sound, evoking that of large a Circular saw. The texts, paintings with the scalpel of the atrocities of our time (racism, rapes, murder), are stated of a cold and dogmatic voice, responsible for a destroying rage at certain times. The music of Big Black can be close to the industrial line , but especially a kind of result in the line noisy constitutes some. The east group dissolves in 1987.

Rapeman

See also: Rapeman

Rapeman corresponds, in the hardcore, so that one called a Supergroupe in the years 1970. Rapeman is formed in 1988 with members of the group Scratch Acid, which brings like fundamental modification the presence of a Batteur in the group. Steve Albini is with the guitar and with the song, Rey Washam is with the battery and David W. Sims is with low. The group separates in 1990. Steve Albini forms Shellac then, David W. Sims turns over with his partners of Scratch Acid to form Jesus Lizard, and Rey Washam enlists in Ministry.

Shellac

See also: Shellac

This formation began in 1992 in Chicago. If the treated topics are in the same vein that with Big Black, the music is less hardcore and generally slower. Sound violence is replaced by atrophied melodies, a voice contained and rates/rhythms hypnotic and throbbing. Three albums were elaborate, like various participations in compilations until 2000, with the album 1000 Hurts . A fourth album entitled Excellent Italian Greyhound left in June 2007.

Productions

See also: List of projects recorded by Steve Albini

Steve Albini defends a typical position of the movement hardcore, while working exclusively in a creative direction and without objective of profitability. It is known to have a capacity of exceptional listening, and asserts a work of production consisting in bringing its competences to the groups which it produces without influencing the artistic contents their works: it is the mention " recorded by Steve Albini" ( recorded by Steve Albini ) and not " product by Steve Albini" who is reproduced on the albums in question.

Some productions: