Real name: Frédérick Landier

Effective period / Period of releases: 1999 - 2023

Rubin Steiner (born Frédérick Landier, Tours, 30 October 1974) is a French guitar, bass, and keyboard musician, and disk jockey specialising in electronica. He worked as a radio presenter between 1992 and 2002 for Radio béton in Tours, with a programme of free jazz, electro, punk, and experimental music. He organized concerts in Tours, edited a music fanzine, and was a guitarist in the group Merz from 1996 to 1998. His main influences are jazz, hip hop, punk rock, 1980s American music and pop, which he arranges into albums of electro-jazz, electronica, krautrock, pop, punk disco, post-punk, house music, and techno. He was nominated for the Victoires de la musique in 2006 for his album Drum Major.