With a career spanning three decades as a DJ and producer, James Dean Brown has more than one story to tell. Growing up in Frankfurt in the early 1980s, he formed a small group of aspiring electronic musicians alongside now established names such as Uwe Schmidt (atomTM), Tobias Freund (Tobias) and Martin Schopf (Dandy Jack). At a time when Techno was yet to be created, they produced and released their precursory experiments in pure DIY fashion, armed with nothing but all sorts of drum machines, cassette decks and unrestrained creativity. Through his Hypnobeat alias, founded with Pietro Insipido in 1983, James Dean Brown produced a handful of self-released cassettes that integrated early elements of contemporary club music, following the ethos of reducing electronics to the hypnotic rhythm core.

Some years later in 1996, James Dean Brown formed a new project called Narcotic Syntax, as an evolution from Hypnobeat. Through mutual friends he happened to meet Thomas Franzmann and Markus Nikolai at the same time, who went on to found the highly influential Perlon imprint in 1997. The immediate result of this new friendship was Narcotic Syntax’s debut EP “Ultravolta”, one of Perlon’s first releases, co-produced by James Dean Brown and Zip. This record, among a few others from the label’s early output, would pave the way to the sound Perlon is known for today. Narcotic Syntax evolved further when Yapacc joined the project in 2003, leading to a string of releases on Perlon and other labels, including genre-bending collaborations with singer Robert Conroy and guitarist Achim Treu.

James Dean Brown is also an incredible DJ with a wide musical knowledge, who learned his craft from some of the very best in the field, such as Ricardo Villalobos. Mixing genres with flawless precision, his sets are a unique blend of obscurities from his ever-expanding vinyl collection. His storytelling skills are beautifully showcased in the mix he sent us for the first of our series, recorded live at Club der Visionaere in Berlin. And to dig a bit deeper while listening to his set, we asked James Dean Brown a few questions about his creative vision, his relationship with music and the defining moments of his career…

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"Forever"

I've been thinking about this artist mix for a while and settled down to it following the release of Dimensional Space.    This mix follows an interpretation of more 'beatless & ambient' soundscapes, "Ice Stars Sunlight" recorded about 5 years ago using CDj's.  

https://soundcloud.com/verdant-recordings/ice-stars-sunlight

Since then I've learned to mix with vinyl and here have focussed on more techno based flavours.   Enjoy, share and leave a comment if you like.  And for the audiophiles this is a WAV download.

Starlight (Intrusion Dub)
Bronze
First Point Of Aries
Vantage Isle (Space Echo Dub)
Beyond Starlit Skies (Reimagined)
Red Lantern
Tonality Of Light (Spiral 1)
Sailing Stars
Infinit-1 (Intrusion’s Lost Dub)
Lisbon
Spatial Dimension (Intrusion Dub)
M-3
Untitled
Prana
Groovelock (Detroit Mix One)
Aquatic
For Convextion
Forever Feeling 
Outro

Records, CDJ, Pioneer DJM 800,  Apogee and Logix X.
verdant recordings,  November 2014

Forever - Echospace [ M i X ]

HOWLONGISNOW #8 - Daniel[i] & Lukas Freisem

Recorded live at the first Rebloom on Saturday 11th May, a party series in London that celebrates deeper minded music. The first instalment was hosted at Avalon in South Bermondsey on a scorcher of a sunny day. 

This set was recorded quite early on in the programming, and an opportunity to transition from the ambient soundscapes played by the ever charming Tolly Odd, and try to lay a foundation for Shoal, Laura BCR and Ario who played later on in the evening. 

As always, made with love. 

Hope you enjoy xxx

BLOOMLOOPS 005 | JJ @ Rebloom London - May 2024

DJ set recorded live at Drugstore Garden takeover of club Karmakoma with Luigi Tozzi, Belgrade, RS, 26.07.2024.

Cover photo taken by myself on 35mm Konica Big Mini in 2017 in Guangzhou, China.

mdngt DJ set | Drugstore x Karmakoma, July 2024

Integration EP [The Bunker New York BK048]

Sarah Wreath - Mala

Naks - Intergalactic FM Festival 2024

01. FLML - Parking Shadows [Alley Version]
02. Roy Of The Ravers - Bomber [Winthorpe Electronics]
03. The Kid N Cliff - Don't B Alarmed [Dirty Blends]
04. Robert Bergman - Flight [Brew]
05. Hank Jackson - Shave [Mister Saturday Night Records]
06. Bill Converse - 303 Up And Down [Acid Camp Records]
07. Ricky Smith - Phone System [Chicago Bad Boys Records]
08. Hot Hanas Hula - 70th & King Drive [Serious Records]
09. M Parent - Low End Loser [Unimatrix Zero]
10. Armando - Down Fall Houz' Mon Remix [Beatboys Records]
11. Noleian Reusse - Beet Juice [Bio Rhythm]
12. Kenny K. Collins - Beat My House [Rockin' House]
13. Deep Concentration - Presence Of The Past [L.A. Club Resource]
14. Valaree - I Love To Love [Diablo Records]

Intergalactic FM Festival 2024
Pip Den Haag

www.intergalactic.fm

Intergalactic FM Festival 2024

Hier gehts zum Talk :

https://soundcloud.com/papiertigerinterview/talk-september-24-streamfield-artisans

Vor allem seit den letzten zwei Jahren haben wir regelmäßig verschiedene Gäste in unserer Sendung und nutzen die wunderbaren Möglichkeiten hier im Radio X um uns mit anderen Musiker_innen zu verbinden, sich kennenzulernen und zusammen zu grooven. 
Für uns ist es eine totale Bereicherung damit immer wieder neue Musik, neue Techniken, neue Blickrichtungen aufs DJing kennenzulernen.

In dieser Sendung kommen wir mit David aka p.limnique zusammen - ein Musiker der gar nicht aus dem DJing, sondern aus Live Performances, Produktion und Band-Kontext kommt.
Damit entdecken wir (Aaron und Jens aka animadu & black elmekx) als DJs - und wir alle drei zusammen nochmal eine völlig neue Art und Weise zu Spielen; unsere Turntables, CDJ's und Tapedeck als Instrumente mit Davids Effektgeräten, Mischern und Sythesizern zu verbinden 
- wir spielen Locked Grooves von Vinyl, legen ein Tape mit Fieldrecordings ein, spielen Percussions und Flächen vom digitalen Player, drehen an vielen verschiedenen Reglern, spielen eine Melodie auf dem Keyboard, lassen den Sound Schleifen drehen, verformen die Klanghaptik - und verlieren irgendwann selbst den Überblick über das was da gerade alles passiert. 
Aber genau das ist ein magischer und spannender Moment 
- im Jam ankommen, den Groove verfolgen, Kommunizieren ohne Worte.
Wir sind streamfield artisans

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Especially since the last two years, we have regularly had various guests on our show and use the wonderful opportunities here on Radio X to connect with other musicians, get to know each other and groove together.
For us it is a total enrichment to always get to know new music, new techniques and new perspectives on DJing.

In this show we meet David aka p.limnique - a musician who doesn't come from DJing at all, but from live performances, production and band contexts.
With this we (Aaron and Jens aka animadu & black elmekx) as DJs - and all three of us together - discover a completely new way to play; to connect our turntables, CDJ's and tape decks as instruments with David's effects devices, mixers and synthesizers
- we play locked grooves from vinyl, insert a tape with field recordings, play percussions and pads from the digital player, turn many different controls, play a melody on the keyboard, let the sound loop, deform the feel of the sound - and at some point we lose ourselves an overview of what is currently happening.
But that is exactly a magical and exciting moment
- arrive in the jam, follow the groove, communicate without words.
We are streamfield artisans

X-Fade September 24 : streamfield artisans

##3rdbd #3600 {3600 x Zxvlzlvy3r} Kos Awakened x MiiZxKvnn - FVNVTIK {Prod. Kos}

Live modular jam with DIY synth system KSS

Rayleigh scattering

ELEKTRON vs EMX

Music heads who are not necessarily heard in clubs and who are really keen to make music together .

House, Techno, Acid, Disco, Elektro, Krudo, Ambient, Rave, Freetekno, Dub, PostPunk, Downtempo, Dancehall, Breakbeat, Bubbling, Jazz, Trap, Gqom, Jungle, Illbient, Singeli .. 
what interests us right in time and where our music search leads us
– we play Vinyl, CD, Files...
we don't care what a real DiskJokey should be !

For the free association of free individuals in cooperation .
Against fascism and exploitation in capitalist production .

Run by black elmekx , animadu , buschi

Radio broadcast on www.radiox.de: 
every 4. Saturday of the month 
11pm - 2am
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Kontakt: papiertigerensemble [ät] posteo.de

started 2017 by 
* K Blanka & Black Elmekx *

X-Fade September 24 : streamfield artisans

Papiertiger|Ensemble

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