Suzybee & Steevio (Mindtours, Mindnet - UK)
Suzybee is originally from London and now lives in Wales. With a background in painting and fine art, she has explored the combination of art and music ever since her first experiences of dancing to techno had a powerful effect on her life.
She co-founded the Mindtours record label in 2000 as an outlet for the music of her friends, and became involved in organising dance events, providing backdrops and decor. This led to experimenting in hand-drawn animations, video and effects, and using VJ software to fully explore possibilities in the audio-visual imagination. She now VJs live with Steevio’s music.
Steevio’s involvement in electronic music goes back to the early 80’s Electro/ Breakdance scene, via the Free Festival/Traveller movement, which helped to develop the UK underground dance scene. Since then, he has gone onto concentrate on his ‘Mindtours’ project, first as an artist, then in 2000 as a label.
The fact that he records everything live using complex analogue set-up combined with computer sequencing gives his music it’s live, organic and warm nature resulting in a minimal sound with flavours of deep techno, broken beat & jazz. Whilst experimental, Steevio also believes in accessibility, always keeping the dance floor in mind.