Kurt Stephens

I've been making music since I started playing drums in 1985.

Here's a list of bands I've played with over the years:

• Jesus and the Meat Cleavers (first band, bad name)
• The Disturbed (playing punk rock drums w/ local metal heads)
• Chia Pet (white trash boogie)
• No Empathy (melodic punk rock)
• Robespierre (Chia Pet off-shoot)
• The Baltimores (circus/improv rock)

No Empathy did a couple US tours in the winters of 1995 and 1996. The Baltimores did a short winter tour in 1997(?). I also spent about one year playing drumset with DJs in the basement of Chicago's one-and-only Smart Bar; which is where I met my wife Robin!

I started DJing in Chicago around 1996 and (finally) started working on some of my own music. Started building up a MIDI/digital audio studio that I'm still lugging around. Since I don't have much time to do music production anymore, I'm in the process of liquidating it all for something smaller (PC based).