Steve Albini was famously critical of the direction in which club culture had steered electronic music.
Multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and outspoken provocateur Steve Albini has died at age 61. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to Taylor Hales, an employee of Albini’s recording studio, Electrical Audio.
Albini’s first taste of the spotlight came courtesy of Big Black, the Chicago band he founded as frontman in 1981. He went on to form bands like Rapeman and Shellac, capable of playing every instrument for each if called to do so.
He started his career as an audio engineer in the early ’90s —…
