Steve Loeb

American producer, engineer, keyboardist, songwriter & record label/studio owner.

Loeb started a record company ([l269301], aka [l251402]) and purchased a recording studio in New York ([l1645483]) with [a965511]. After some money battles with a third partner, the studio was renamed [l287007] and became a partnership between Loeb and Philip Glass music director [a275925]. In 1983 Loeb bought out Riesman and became the sole owner of the studio which was renamed [l270444].

The forerunner of synthesizing the genres of heavy metal and hip-hop, Loeb produced chart records for 13 albums for heavy metal icons Riot and the Top 10 pop single "Amityville" for rapper Lovebug Starski which Loeb wrote with rapper Kurtis Blow.