Strongly dedicated to education, Steve serves as adjunct instructor at both Wichita State University and Butler County Community College. Steve also maintains an active performing and recording schedule with The Elemental Trio, Nikki Moddlemog, Music Theatre Wichita, and the aptly named, Steve Hatfield’s Band. He has shared the stage with artists such as Joe Williams, Martina McBride, Allan Vizzutti, Glenn Alexander, Bob Florence, and Jerry Hahn, among others. Since then, Steve has gone on to become one of the most in demand drummers in the Midwest. He has also studied with Ed Soph, Steve Houtghton, Bruce Chaffin, and Rod Fetter. Steve studied percussion at Wichita State University with Dr. We started the Promusic foundation to help people do more with music then only bedroom performances.Steve Hatfield is drummer/educator based in Wichita, KS. Within a short period of time my cooperation with DJ Thorin and Roelie van Lingen joined the MTR concept. In the year 2000 in my own studio Raymond Heg and I made the EPs Dub U Always and Dark Dub for Wally’s Grooveworld and Babe Records.
Eventually the youth centre was closed in 1994 and everyone went their separate ways. We also did some productions for among others DJ Raymond Heg and Sander Kleinenberg (Wonka). Rick and I had worked together for Stealth Records Dance (h)all night EP. In 1993 our team was reinforced by a dj from Rotterdam named Ricky the Dragon. Later on I worked together with him on several productions including some work for Top Sound studio and the Harrow studio. I started working together with a computer freak who could do things on a Atari 24 ST that at that time amazed people. From 1986 until 1993 electronic music became increasingly popular and important and the studio joined this digital revolution in 1991. I also composed music for some pop and reggae bands. Eventually I started producing in an 8-track studio in a youth centre (Poort van Kleef, working together with Sander Kleinenberg) and I joined many reggae bands as a mixer when they performed live. Dub engineers like King Tubby, Scientist and other founders of the dub, gave me the feeling you needed very little equipment to achieve a lot. In those days I listened to producers like Lee Perry, Henry Junjo Lawes, Chris Blackwell, Steve Hillage and more. We used a 2-track recorder en pingponged all overdubs. In that studio he had some drum boxes, a Korg MS-20 synthesizer, guitars, percussion and some microphones. In 1980 I met Rasta Robert with his home studio. During this period I got interested in fx-equipment and synthesizers. After that I had classical guitar lessons until I was twelve years old. I had never played guitar before but could play Fur Elise instantly. In 1973, after my mother passed away, I held my first guitar.
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