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With the album recorded, Steve was excited to be heading to Headroom studios in L.A to mix it. After one of the mixing sessions however, something clicked. "By the time I got back, I had this unavoidable inspiration to do a vocal, Rock album". Steve returned to Melbourne with a whole new plan.

"Right at this time, Steve met Hans Ebert in Melbourne, who, at the time, was EMI Music's Executive Director (Asia)." Hans had heard demos of songs I was trying to shop to other artists and asked why I was only working on instrumentals when he felt I should be a singer-songwriter. This kinda sealed my vision after mixing the instrumental album"

A few months later, the opportunity came for Steve to head back to Los Angeles to attend Musicians Institute. Bags packed, the journey to this point today, would be the beginning of his debut album "Human Uniform". Steve says, "This album took so many different turns. Ups and downs. It got to the point where I was like, f**k it, this is the album, no more changing. Looking back, I learned a lot as a songwriter and producer and am a lot more confident now as I work on my next one..."

This period also saw Steve work on other music projects both in the U.S and Asia. Some of the highlights was writing music for Emmy-Award winning TV and teaming up with his idol Richie Kotzen to write "Beautiful Life" for Richie's Wilson Hawk album.

"Human Uniform" is a mix of Rock, Funk and Pop. Written and Produced by Steve, the album also has Steve playing and performing all vocals and instruments on it. The album sees release in August 2009! This is followed by his first tour of Japan.

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