Ensemble 1

Recorded live at ://about blank, Berlin, 2014
James Dean Brown + Helena Hauff – Provocative Percussion (1x TR-707, 3x TR-808)

Driven by the common DIY-attitude, James Dean Brown founded Hypnobeat with Pietro Insipido in 1983. Making noise with a Boss DR-55 rhythm machine, 2nd hand gear and household utensils, it was not before JDB’s encounter with Victor Sol and Tobias Freund a year later that Hypnobeat became a proper, fully electronic outfit.

The main goal was to follow a "neo-tribal" approach by reducing electronics to the hypnotic rhythm core. Affected by the emotional impact of polyrhythmic energy, the collective's live sets were often based on machine improvisations. In the studio, machine expert Victor Sol was the one who shifted the Hypnobeat sound to the desired level of technological sophistication.

Apart from a TB-303, the wide range of analog studio/live gear included up to six synchronized rhythm machines – always with a focus on the inimitable sound of the Roland TR-808. Accordingly, Hypnobeat conceived an early form of contemporary club music, somewhere within the scope of classical Electro Funk and prototype Techno, and with a proto-Acid flavour – on "the front-line of sonic innovation before Techno was even a thing."

In 1996, evolving from Hypnobeat, James Dean Brown formed Narcotic Syntax, a project he boosted together with Yapacc in 2003, with releases on Perlon, WIR and Prospector.

And after all, Hypnobeat retransformed from Narcotic Syntax. What was supposed to be a one-off solo live appearance by James Dean Brown at Serendip Festival, Paris in 2012 became the exciting new evolution of Hypnobeat with Helena Hauff joining the project a year later.

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 + a formidable 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.

Hypnoweb
http://www.hypnobeat.net
Booking
hypnobeat@hypnobeat.net

Past live shows:
•	Festival Serendip, Paris
•	CTM, Berghain, Berlin
•	Grundlos Glücklich, ://about blank, Berlin
•	Les Siestes Électroniques, Toulouse
•	Écoutes au Vert, Motel Campo, Geneva
•	Insomnia, Tromsø, Norway
•	Bleak Future, Petit Bain, Paris
•	SAVE, Moscow
•	Intonal, Malmö, Sweden
•	Rural, Mountain Park Tsunan, Niigata, Japan
•	Krake, Urban Spree, Berlin
•	Arma Labelnight, OHM, Berlin
•	Atonal, Berlin
•	Kaiku, Helsinki
•	Boiler Room, Vienna
•	Dark Entries, Säule/Berghain, Berlin (JDB solo)
•	Mmodemmnight, Frankfurt a.M. (JDB solo)
•	Arma X, Funkhaus, Berlin (JDB solo)

Hypnobeat features:

The whole story
https://www.electronicbeats.net/frankfurt-diy-history
Techno Cadeau (08/2017)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220625101310/https://technocadeau.fr
Resident Advisor (01/2015)
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2359

Hypnoweb
http://www.hypnobeat.net

Interview with Early Reflections, Paris (03/2023)
https://early-reflections.com/mixes/james-dean-brown

Interview with Fabric. London (03/2013)
www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/in-conversation-with-james-dean-brown

www.empire-of-passion.com

Hypnobeat - Solace for Those Who Sold Their Soul to a Metronome (2014)

Wicked "end of summer" vibe remix by Scott Thorough!

Available on "Summer Knowledge" LP by Jake Vest. Out October 2nd on American Grapefruit.

Background vocals by Luke White and Kait Lawson. 

Art by St. Francis Elevator Ride

Jake Vest - Cloud Binge [Scott Thorough Battles the Pink Robots Remix]

The RAW + UNCut version of my 2017 BBC Essential Mix. 

Celebrating 30 years of ACID. The first TB-303 squelch to hit da planet n cause sonic acid trips on the dance floor came with the introduction of PHUTURE - ACID TRACKS in 1987. Acid Tracks is what kicks off this mix. Phuture was founded by myself, DJ Spank Spank (RIP) and Herb J.

Check the official edited broadcast here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/BBCEssentialMix/dj-pierre-essential-mix-07012017/

DJ Pierre || 2017 BBC Essential MIX :: UNCUT :: 30 years of ACiD

(161). BoM - 80`s Soviet Union Electronic Mix (Special for KXLU)

(Mix) 161. BoM - 80`s Soviet Union Electronic Mix(Special for KXLU FM)(Russian, SynthPop, New Wave)

Live Set from my rehearsing session for the verbos electronics superbooth afterparty.

The Sound Of Space

The Swedish composer turns in a collection of patient music meant to make you focus on "timbre, texture, and tuning."

Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neaxvd/ellen-arkbro-noisey-mix-interview

Tracklist:
Oren Ambarchi, Jim O’Rourke, U-zhaan - Hence One
Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS for guitar
Marcus Pal & Isak Edberg - λ
Charlemagne Palestine - Interrvallissphereee (Tuesday)
Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS for organ
Catherine Lamb - Muto Infinitas (for quarter-tone bass flute and double bass, performed by Rebecca Lane and Jon Heilbron)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Equal Temperament Fender Mix
Charles Curtis - Ultra White Violet Light/Sleep, Vol.1, A
Marc Sabat - Jean-Phillipe Rameau (performed by JACK quartet)

Noisey Mix: Ellen Arkbro

Rinse FM Podcast

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JASSS with Caterina Barbieri - 21 August 2019

I was extremely honored to be featured on the legendary Essential Mix show this summer...  When I was in college, my teacher used to play us Essential Mixes in class, and on the 20th anniversary of the show,  Pete Tong was hosting James Zabiela and Sasha at the Warehouse Project in Manchester. I was the first one in the queue and the last one to leave the club! I will never forget that night. This year I had the honor of meeting Pete Tong at IMS Ibiza, and I think you can imagine how overwhelming it was to be invited to record a set for the show.  Here is my Essential Mix. I hope you enjoy it

SAMA' - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix - 2019.07.06

For the full track listing and @caterinabarbieri's album of the year click here: bleep.com/bleep-mix-88--caterina-barbieri

To celebrate Bleeps album of the year 2019 Ecstatic Computation released via @editionsmego - we have this incredible mix put together by Italy's Caterina Barbieri. Featuring contemporary electronic luminaries such as @carlomaria and Copenhagen’s Astrid Sonne (@a_sonne), visceral sonics from Burial and Lena Raine(@lena-chappelle), classic Colundi material from @aleksiperala as well as a collaborative project between Caterina and Carlo Maria under the @punctum_music moniker.

Bleep Mix #88 - Caterina Barbieri

andie's 30th birthday ~MEGAmix ~

Releases from the label -- new, old, and un-.

Jake Vest - Cloud Binge [Scott Thorough Battles the Pink Robots Remix]

American Grapefruit

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