Land of Dreams

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)

If all goes as planned this tape will be available from 13/02/25 in exchange for a small fee
Comes with a 20' live jam recording on the B side
Limited batch - get in touch if you'd like one

Splinters tape - A side snippets

DTM Funk at Dark Skies, Horst Arts & Music 2025

Sweater on Polo (NYC) and Tony Price (Toronto) go head to head for 2 hours for LIVE HARDWARE JACKING MADNESS on WKCR 89.9FM. The show aired LIVE on September 14, from 9-11pm. 

Brought to you by Groove Trackers.

00:00:00 FM Preamble
00:05:00 Sweater on Polo
00:29:20 Caller, Lauren from Toronto
00:40:00 Caller, Brendon from Toronto
00:55:15 Tony Price
01:07:36 Caller, Klauss from Queens
01:27:20 Caller, Ted from UWS
01:46:30 Post-Amble

Final Score: NYC 2 - Toronto 2

Tony Price vs Sweater On Polo (GT HARDWARE WARS 001)

L'artiste: TANS (@tans-1 / @sonsoftraders)
Le mixtape: Stock 092
 L'esthétique: scorching and acidic substances

La sélection:
TANS - Save That Acid 
Fashion Flesh - Brass Heels 
Chaosy - Empty
 CULT MGMT - Deathdreaming  
Mule Driver - I Believe Although I Know Something is Wrong (DJ Nephil Edit)
Piper Loi - JUNKBOX  
TANS - Missing Foundation
 Jesus Dial-Up - TAR$PHERE  
TANS - Sporca Loundry
Takeshi Kauzuki - Electric Language  
DJ Gilb'R - Espece Funk (Drums)
Piper Loi - DRUM MUSIC  
Machinete - Il crimine segreto 
TANS - Growing Concern  
Mr. Fingers - Finger Fuck 
Takeshi Kauzuki - Clap ’N Beat 
TANS - FU$’NK CULT 
MGMT - Xtro 
Hannnibal III - FASHION FLESH (Edit for Stock Series !)

Recorded in Berlin in August 2025.

Stock 092 par TANS

BEAU WANZER 12" (BW07)
NOVEMBER 2025

A1. CATHARTIC CATAPULTS
A2. FUMES ARE FUN
A3. WHISTLE WHEN YOU'RE LOW
A4. KITTY KAULDRON
B1. FU KLAXSON
B2. HAMBURGER HILL
B3. THE DATABASE DEMON

AVAILABLE IN RECORD STORES WORLDWIDE MAY 2025 - DISTRIBUTED BY RUSH HOUR
https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/unititled-1

BEAU WANZER 12" (BW07) snippets

No More Delay (GRTW020)

Prins Regduls - Subsydney Drummy (Haag Tribunal Remix)

Boiler Room w/ Delroy Edwards, Steve Summers, Svenghalisghost & L'estasi Dell'oro & 12 x 12 
[Broadcasted on 2nd April 2013] 
Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Svengalisghost LIVE in the Boiler Room

And a fine ol' Farley JMF mixed found on an old hard drive.. I bet my left shoe it's from somewhere deep in the Deephouse Pages, but oh well, the gospel just needs to be spread.

Splinters tape - A side snippets

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