DESCRIPTION:
Exclusive solo live performance by James Dean Brown (Narcotic Syntax) under his former alias during the Serendip Festival, Gare XP, Paris on October 14th, 2012.

2x Roland TR-808 + fx

Following a "neo-tribal" approach by reducing electronics to the hypnotic rhythm core, James Dean Brown founded Hypnobeat in 1983. Affected by the emotional impact of polyrhythmic energy, the collective's live sets turned out to become machine improvisations. Apart from a TB-303, their 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.

In 1995, evolving from Hypnobeat, JDB formed Narcotic Syntax, a band he boosted together with Yapacc in 2003, with releases on Perlon, WIR and Prospector. After all, Hypnobeat retransformed from Narcotic Syntax, starting with a solo live performance by James Dean Brown at Serendip Festival, Paris in 2012 before finally, a year later saw the exciting new evolution of Hypnobeat with Helena Hauff joining the project.

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.

2016, the year of releases: 2 retrospective Hypnobeat vinyl albums with tracks from their 80es cassette productions are planned for release on Serendip and Dark Entries. Current productions by the duo James Dean Brown + Helena Hauff will be out on a variety of labels: Arma (Moscow), Perlon (Berlin), Bedouin (Dubai), Return to Disorder (Hamburg), Serendip (Paris), Kashual (Berlin), and others.

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

Releases:
Hypnobeat – Les Siestes Électroniques (Pluie/Noir Experimental Media), 10"EP, May 2016
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2016/04/22/hypnobeat-return-on-pluienoir
V.A. – MDM B (MMODEMM), 5xC10 Cassette, 2015
http://mmodemm.bandcamp.com/album/mdm-b
V.A. – Dark Matters Too (Light Sounds Dark LSD010), LP, 2013

Hypnobeat feature on RA (01/2015)
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2359

Hypnoweb
http://www.hypnobeat.net

Booking
abi@annexagency.co.uk