DJ Butcher (3)

DJ Butcher (aka Alex Steffan) is a 25 year old Brisbane based deejay. His foundations lay within the hip-hop music and its surrounding culture giving Butcher a good grounding for his movement into the electronic dance music phenomenon. Starting his career as a musician and producer, he swiftly moved into deejaying to accommodate for the lack of in South-East Queensland at the time (2005). He started his live turntablism career on the Gold Coast before quickly moving to Brisbane to take on more serious ventures. After starting Born Fresh Records and Studio in 2010 with good friend Tom Thum (world champion beatboxer) he released an album under the name "Crate Creeps" which featured international and Australian names such as Suffa MC (Hilltop Hoods), Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples - LA), Trials (Funkoars), Mantra (VIC)…etc. Now morphing Born Fresh Records into a group of likeminded people (rather than label) he holds down the 1's and 2's for seven, Mr Hill, Tommy Illfigga, Crate Creeps, Rainman, and helps out various interstate friends such as Tuka, Mantra and Purpose just to name a few. Pushing through his career as a dj for emcees, he was given a lot of opportunity to do club sets supporting some of the worlds most credible acts such as De La Soul, GZA, Pharaoh Monch, Mos Def, Dead Prez, Dilated Peoples…and performing at some of Australia's biggest festivals such as Foreshore Festival, Summafieldayze, ParkLife, Blah Blah Blah, Caxton Seafood Festival….just to name a few. Further to this, as a turntablist and party rocker Dj Butcher found his home in 2012 by winning the Australian Red Bull Thre3style Battle and represented Australia in Chicago USA. Now holding the title for Australia's best party rocking deejay 2012, he recently released his first solo EP called "$werve" which features bass heavy trap beats which have been in rotation on Triple J and featured in many blogs/mixes including the "Best of Trap Vol 6" compilation on YouTube and BBC1xtra's Diplo & Friends (played by Bro Safari).