Zeus B Held is a versatile producer and multi instrumentalist. He made six albums with German group “Birth Control” and has worked as producer, and session musician, with some of the most influential artists of the last two decades

After writing and producing the groundbreaking album by the Gina X Performance “Nice Mover”, his first UK production credits were with Fashion and Dead or Alive he produced Pete Wylie`s ”Sinful” album and an LP by Men Without Hats for Polygram US which yielded a number one in many European countries and a US Top 20 hit with ”Pop Goes The World”. This was followed by two albums with Transvision Vamp on MCA with a top five single and a Number one album. Zeus went on to write and produce successful albums with Nina Hagen, Udo Lindenberg, Win, National Velvet, Spear Of Destiny and Mark Parrot.

Zeus produced, co-wrote and arranged albums with Nina Hagen and Fashion. He also wrote and recorded the music for the 1993 advertising campaign for Swatch. His mix of Gary Numan`s ”Cars” hit the British charts again in March `96 and provided samples that would later be used by Armand Van Helden in his hugely successful 2000 remix. In 1999 he co-wrote Nina Hagen’s single “Der Poetenclub” which also features the voice of Falco (of “Rock me Amadeus” fame).

in 2000 he produced an album with South African group “Shikisha” for Toshiba-EMI Japan, an EP with Victoria Wilson-James and recorded and produced a live album with rock legends “Hawkwind” at the London Brixton Academy.

His production and collaboration with Coventry group “Bulletproof Electric Revue” led to intensive work on audio-visuals and the complete soundtrack of one of the British films shown at Cannes 2001 festival “Mad Dogs”.

Zeus` long standing collaboration with American Chapman Stick player Jim Lampi led to the formation of The Held Lampi Project, a virtual band, based around the creative nucleus of Jim and Zeus, featuring collaborations with artists from around the world.

Their first album for Kissing Fish Music, Digital Dreaming was released in October 2004, together with The Colour of Compassion from Zeus` own band The Spiritual Traders. They are currently writing material for a new collaboration with musicians from Japan and South East Asia.