James Dean Brown
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Biografía
- James Dean Brown, living/working in Berlin, Frankfurt/Main and Paris, is deeply rooted in the adventuresome Perlon family and a DJ regular in the line-up of their monthly, celebrated "Get Perlonized" parties at Panorama Bar since 2001.Producing and DJing for more than 20 years, and crossing a wide field of genres, James Dean Brown is an experienced story-teller. A crate digger, influenced by Soul, Funk, Prog and Exotica since his early teens, he keeps on living out his passion for music, the primary carrier of emotions. Still, his comprehensive experience and ever-expanding vinyl collection are steadily charged with wondrous music of diversified origin. Consequently, he merges an exciting variety of styles in his club, lounge and radio sets. His versatile, musical roller coaster rides are passionate, vinyl-based, of timeless quality and designed for gaining "The Emotional Maximum". They follow an approach of serious deepness, psychedelic vibration and voodoo magic, driven by a cordial punch. Filling and killing a floor, JDB's trips welcome the crowd back to the adventurous aspect of partying. Minimalism means the reduction of conformity here. JDB is known for living up to calculated extravagant licentiousness. While he sets a club on fire by igniting a brew of effective dance propellants, his DJ manoeuvres produce a flow of inspiring surprises. A smart feel for progression and sound design finds expression in elegant fades and well-rounded resolutions. Lowering the floor down to the groundwater of euphoria, home of the bass, JDB arouses a swarm of sophisticated rhythms from there. Ranging from soulful and tribal vibes via West Coast House to all sorts of Club Funk, the space in between fills with sensuality, lascivious energy, temptation, and blasts of heat. The crowd's destination is collective freakability. JDB played places and events in Germany, Europe and the world: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Cologne, Corfu, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kassel (Documenta X), Kiev (Closer), Krakow, Kyoto (Star Festival), London (Fabric), Lyon, Mannheim (Time Warp), Milano, Moscow (Arma), Munich, Nantes, Nice, Offenbach (Robert Johnson), Osaka, Paris (Concrete, Rex), Rabat, Santiago de Chile, Sofia, St. Petersburg (Present Perfect), Tbilisi, Tokyo, Toronto, Valparaíso, Vienna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zurich. People rave about James Dean Brown's "oeuvre of massive dancefloor destruction", his "auditive tsunami" and his "exciting mix sessions (that) can manage your body in a way you didn't expect", while others, who have "seen him absolutely kill a dancefloor", even claim "…it was religious…". → JDB@Concrete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxbdBqu3Efs 2006-08, JDB was involved in A&R activities for Cologne-based Treibstoff Recordings, provider of high-energy club fuels, and participated in forming the musical profile of the associated WIR label. Evolving from the seminal "Prototech" project Hypnobeat which he had founded in 1983, James Dean Brown formed Narcotic Syntax in 1995, a band he reboosted together with Yapacc in 2003. Narcotic Syntax collaborate with chanteuse Robert Conroy from NYC, released on Perlon, WIR, Prospector and play rare hardware live sets, occasionally joined by Pit Spector from Paris to convey the Narcopit Syntax trio experience. In 2013, Hypnobeat retransformed from its successor Narcotic Syntax, with Helena Hauff joining James Dean Brown on stage. The duo's live performances are completely based on improvisation, exhausting the power of an untamed Roland horde which is unique on stage: 1 x TR-707 + 3 x TR-808 + 2x TB-303 + an array of effects = provocative percussion, voodoo passion, tribal ecstasy, hypnodelic temptation, psycho-exotic magic, universal resonance, and a quantum of danger under a crypto-bohemian approach.̸Narcotic Syntax Narcotic Syntax & Pit Spector – Prospector #4, 12"EP, 10/2016 Provocative Percussion (WIR 005), 2x12"EP, 2006 Reptile Sweat Accelerator EP (Perlon Perl45), 2005 Calculated Extravagant Licentiousness EP (Perlon Perl39), 2004 Ultravolta / Megadieselizer (Perlon 04), 12"EP, 1998 remixes The Thanatonautes (Narcodrive) (remix of "The Thanatonautes" by Sang Sattawood), unreleased Sir Breiss (remix of "Edo Breiss" by Italoboyz), Bla Bla Bla Remixed (Mothership MSHIP030), 2010 Komodo Dragons (narcotic boost) (remix of "Komodo Dragons" by Misty Roses), Narcotic Syntax – Reptile Sweat Accelerator EP (Perlon Perl45), 2005 Excerpt from Mastodon Dinozord (Nothing But rmx) (remix of "Nothing but Anything" by Pile), Pile – Modern (Sony Music/Epic), CD/2x12"EP, 1996+97 compilations + mixes V.A. – Superlongevity Six (Perlon Perl114), 4x12"EP, 2017 V.A. – Superlongevity Five (Perlon Perl84), 7x12"EP/2CD, 2010 V.A. – Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka: Porn Music for the Masses Vol. 2 (WM WM076), mp3, 2008 Gabriel Ananda / Pascal Feos & Domenic D'Agnelli – Rave on Snow 15 (LNZ 0032), 2CD, 2006 V.A, – c/o Pop Festival Compilation (c/o pop cop 05 CD), 2CD, 2006 Perlon Allstars – Superloooongevity (Perlon Perl56), 4x12"EP/2CD, 2006 V.A. – Superlongevity 3 (Perlon Perl36), 3x12"EP/CD, 2003 V.A. – hallo.01 Audio/Video Comp. (hallo.01), CD, 2003 V.A. – Two Zombies Later (Comfort Stand CSR001), mp3, 2003 Richie Hawtin – DE9: Closer to the Edit (M_nus8LP/CD / Novamute nomu 90), 2x12"EP/CD, 2001 Zip – Superlongevity 2 (Perlon23CD), 2CD, 2001 V.A. – Superlongevity 2 (Perlon Perl 23), 2x12"EP/2CD, 2001 Manu le Malin – Il Était une Fois (Astropolis human-07), CD, 2001 Julian Smith – Deep and Dirty (Neuton neujscd), CD, 2000 V.A. – Superlongevity (Perlon 10), 2x12"EP, 1999 forthcoming Exorcism of the Mini-Demon, 12"EP Last Burst of Beauty, 12"EP Hypnobeat Prototech (Dark Entries DE-180/Serendip Lab SERLP 007), 2x12"EP, 09/2017 Les Siestes Électroniques (Pluie/Noir Experimental Media PNEM03), 10"EP, 02/2017 Shinoby vs. Hypnobeat – All Things Pass into the Night (ISTHEWAY ITW004), s/sided 12"EP, 11/2016 Ritual Fire Dance (Arma ARMA 014), 12"EP + C60 Cassette, 09/2016 Specials/Spatials (Monochrome Tapes HYP 0310), C60 Cassette, 1986 Huggables (Monochrome Tapes HYP 0105/0206), 2xC90 Cassette, 1985 compilations V.A. – MDM B (MMODEMM), 5xC10 Cassette, 2015 V.A. – Dark Matters Too (Light Sounds Dark LSD010), LP, 2013
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