James Bernard

James has released many records since 1993. Starting out as Influx on Sapho records, a sister label of the well respected UK label Rising High Records. His first ambient album, Atmospherics was released in 1994 on Rising High. He also released records on Isophlux Records (as Influx and Protocol), Analog Records (as Influx), BML Records (as Influx) and many others



James spent many years as the face of Korg, doing demos for the Electribe series and also as part of the Korg Sound Design team, where he created sounds and patterns for many of their synths including. EA-1/ER-1/ES-1/EMX1, MS2000, microKorg, The Legacy Collection and many others.



In 1997 he teamed up with DJ Ed Weingarten (aka Displacer) and formed the breakbeat act Expansion Union, releasing music on Wax Trax!/TVT records. The song "Playing with Lightning" from the album "World Wide Funk" was featured in the hit movie "Blade" and used on the gold selling soundtrack CD for the film.



After many years of legal battles with TVT (still ongoing!), James decided to start his own label for his musical output, James Bernard Music. His album "New Life" is a return to his days of ambient, with his love for the TB-303, IDM and glitch music also inspiring the sounds on the album. His latest release "Flashback" on 360 records is a culmination of his love for ambient, downtempo, acid and IDM music.



These days when James is not being daddy to his three beautiful girls Ava, Chloe and Mia, he still composes music and also works for Propellerhead Software (makers of Reason, www.propellerheads.se) as the Artist Relations person, creates sounds and music for them and also travels around the world doing gigs, demos and training seminars on Propellerhead products.



"Flashback" is out now on 360 Records! Look for it on your favorite download site soon.



You can also go to www.lulu.com/jamesbernard to purchase many more albums not available on iTunes yet!



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James Bernard "Mellowing Out" (mp3) from "New Life" (Three Sixty Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Napster Buy at Rhapsody Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Pure Tracks Buy at Amazon Buy at GroupieTunes Buy at mTraks Download More On This Album



James Bernard "System Shok" (mp3) from "Flashback" (Three Sixty Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Pure Tracks Buy at Amazon Buy at GroupieTunes Buy at mTraks Download More On This Album