Technoirs Info 

Julia Beyer
(vocals, lyrics)

Steffen Gehring
(music, production)

Stephan Altengarten
(additional live keys)

- Websites -

technoir.de

alfa-matrix

MySpace

Note:Technoir Have not released any official music videos.

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After some initial hard industrial solo recordings, it was together with members of PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE that the talented and classically trained German musician Steffen Gehring took his giant step onto the electronic scene. And it was in the vocal talents of Julia Beyer that he found the perfect female singer for his project after she had left the band INSIDE (side-project of Darrin Huss of PSYCHE). TECHNOIRs' club invasion was imminent. After a few high profile compilation appearances, the duo released their debut MCD "Requiem" and album "Groundlevel" on the German Bloodline label, and were immediately invited to play at big festivals like Eurorock and Wave-Gotik-Treffen.In 2002 Sony also published their major hit "Love Like Blood", a very danceable cover version of Killing Joke that was produced by Olaf Wollschlager. Steffen then took the road again as the live keyboardist for PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE while Julia contributed vocals to the comeback album and tour of THE ETERNAL AFFLICT. After some remixing duties for Steffen (Psyche, Eternal Afflict, PNE, OVNI, etc.) and several special guest vocal contributions for Julia (Melotron, Distorted Reality, Rotersand...), TECHNOIR have now put their focus on the recordings of their much anticipated new album that will be entitled "Deliberately Fragile". With a harder edge and a darker touch, Steffens new songs feature that special melodic touch that perfectly suits Julias' impressive vocal range. Watch out their forthcoming "Manifesto" EP. A guaranteed club hit and a must-have release for fans of noir danceable electronic music with lush female vox.

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The bandname "technoir" came into Steffens mind while watching the film "Terminator", in which a club with this name played a role. In the following time he produced the album "Sea Level" in his homestudio. "Sea Level" features dark, almost frigthening hard electro-sounds, but has never been released. Together with Stephan Kalwa from Plastic Noise Experience the very atmospheric instrumental album "Eigenspace" was recorded, also unreleased. Knowing not to create something new with hard electro and dark and distorted male voices, Steffen started looking around for a female singer which he found in Julia Beyer that he learned to know in '99 on a concert of the band Inside (no longer existing project of Psyche-singer Darrin Huss) where Julia was singing background vocals. With a lot of both musical and live experience made prior to Technoir, Steffen and Julia began developing new songs as a team. The first song they recorded was "Last Tears". Julia had been singing in several bands before joining technoir (e.g. Inside) where she could make use of what she learnt from many years in a professional choir. Steffen is not a newcomer on the scene either: He has been live-keyboarder for electro-heroes Plastic Noise Experience and comes from a real musicians family in which a classical piano education is both obligatory and cherished. Shortly after sending out the first demos, they found a partner in the German label Bloodline. The first releases "Requiem" (MCD 27.08.2001) and "Groundlevel" (CD 15.10.2001) hit the German alternative charts immediately, also the press showed themselve impressed. This also attracted the attention of bigger companies and so in 2002 Sony published a very danceable Coverversion of the Killing Joke-Song "Love Like Blood" which has been produced by Olaf Wollschlager under the project name Blacklight feat. Technoir. The Single was released on vinyl and is featured on the well-known and very popular Dream Dance-Compilation 25. In the same year the duo could present themselves on bigger festivals like the Eurorock Indoor and the Wave-Gotik-Treffen. In 2003, Julia joined the reborn Eternal Afflict and contributed vocals to the album "Katharsis" whereas Steffen supports again the Band Plastic Noise Experience at live gigs after a long break. After the appearance of Eternal Afflict on the Pluswelt Festival in 2004, Julia left the band to fully concentrate on Technoir. Besides writing new songs, Steffen also proved his remixing skills with providing intriuging Technoir-versions of songs from bands like Psyche, Eternal Afflict, O.V.N.I. (Seize side-project) and Agonised By Love. Julia instead has been in demand as a guest singer with adding some soaring vocals to Melotron's "Folge mir ins Licht" that soon became a proper single and club hit. Furthermore, she delivered guest vocals to releases of In Strict Confidence, Rotersand and Distorted Reality. After the release of the "Manifesto EP" in August 2006, the band has now in stock their second album "Deliberately Fragile"!