Vic Miranda’s path in techno began with hardware live acts in 1990s Luxembourg and has carried him through Europe and Tokyo over more than thirty years.

A producer, live performer, DJ, and head of the labels stereOOxid and shOO, Vic has roots in Luxembourg and Portugal. As Vic Miranda he works in techno, minimal, and hard tek; as Victor Miranda, he explores deep and melodic house.

The Sound

His music moves from minimal, stripped-back percussion to pounding kicks: hypnotic, sometimes melancholic, shifting from dark to melodic. Rather than following trends, Vic prefers to find his own sound, and that sense of individuality runs through everything he makes.

Chaotic, fractured, and challenging the harmony of the cosmos, his music emanates from a playground of glass shards and a canyon of icy echoes. A sleek, gleaming spacecraft piercing through the somber, sensuous vapor of the factory floors, it is both the creation and the defiance of the machine.

Early Roots & the European Live Circuit

Vic grew up during the new beat era of the late 1980s, recording tracks onto cassettes and dreaming of one day making that kind of music himself. In 1990 he started composing on Cubase with an Atari ST, and his first pieces of gear, a Roland W-30 and an Akai S900, became the heart of a small bedroom studio where everything began.

At first those machines were used for rap beats. Vic was a young kid full of dreams, and he even took part in a few local rap contests. But when the rave era arrived, he shifted toward electronic music, realizing that his strength was in the music rather than the lyrics. As he puts it, it’s easier for him to express his feelings through sound than through words. Hip-hop has stayed with him ever since, and he still listens to it today.

By 1996 his focus had turned to techno, and he began building live sets around synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers. He performed these live acts at clubs across the German, French, and Luxembourg border region, including Club KAEM (Trier), Cesar Palace (St. Avold), and Club No. 1 / Gloria (Saarbrücken). With Claude Kaas (aka MC COY, aka IONIC), he played Luxembourg venues such as Club 58, Melusina, and BLOW UP, and later performed at the e-Lake Festival and the MTV iDance Festival.