Born in Zurich and grown up in Italy, he took his first steps into the techno world in the late ’90s, taking inspiration from his idols Jeff Mills and Dave Clarke. His artistic career achieved his first major achievements in 2001 when he debuted with his first Zool EP vinyl on Underground Media Records by Mauro Picotto and landed at the legendary Italian techno club Matrix in Brescia, where he has been regular resident for five years. Since 2005, Stephan has continued his musical growth by playing in some of the best Italian techno clubs and festivals such as Nature Beat Festival, Phase2 Afrobar, Shame, Ex Dogana, Rashomon, The Room, Amnesia, Mantra, Timeshift, Electrique, Il Muretto, Alterego. He also includes countries such as Poland, Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia, Switzerland and Malta, as well as clubs like Sfinks700, Liquid Club, MTW, Sub Club, Depo Klub, Bollwerk, Sugar Factory, Space Monki, Trax Club. Since 2013, he has been resident at HYPER’s events in Italy (near Venice), which became the stage for international techno legends. The tracks from EP’s like “Runaway Giant” EP on Decoy, and latest on Jack! Who?’s DEAD CERT. Records, SK Black (includes the hypnotic remixes of XHEI and ViL), Naked Lunch, Vegim’s TMM, Adroit, District4 (with two remixes for DJ Emerson), Northern Parallels, were played and appreciated by Dave Clarke, Ben Sims, Rebekah, Jeroen Search, Submerge, Nocturnal Sunshine, Nicole Moudaber and many more.