Steve Loeb

American producer, engineer, keyboardist, songwriter & record label/studio owner.
Loeb started a record company (Fire Sign Records, Ltd., aka Fire Sign Records) and purchased a recording studio in New York (112 Greene Street Recording) with Billy Arnell. After some money battles with a third partner, the studio was renamed Big Apple Recording Studios and became a partnership between Loeb and Philip Glass music director Michael Riesman. In 1983 Loeb bought out Riesman and became the sole owner of the studio which was renamed Greene St. Recording.
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.