Club

James Dean Brown, Berlin resident, is deeply rooted in the adventuresome Perlon family since the times before the label has been launched. In 1996, he founded Narcotic Syntax, a band he re-boosted together with his producer companion yapacc in April 2003 (releases on Perlon, WIR, Mothership, Sony/Epic). Since 2001, he is a DJ/live regular in the rotating Perlonoids line-up of the monthly, celebrated "Get Perlonized" parties at Berlin's Panorama Bar.

A music lover and collector with a comprehensive and diversified musical experience, JDB developed an unconditional passion for the essence of music as primary emotion carrier. Consequently, DJing for more than 20 years, he combines an exciting variety of styles in his club, lounge and radio sets which are exclusively designed for gaining "The Emotional Maximum".

JDB is known for living up to calculated extravagant licentiousness. While he sets the floors on fire by igniting a combustible brew of highly effective dance propellants, his exclusively hazardous DJ manoeuvres produce a flow which often takes deliberately unexpected turns. However, a smart feel for progression and sound design finds expression in elegant fades and rounded resolutions. The destination of these adrenalin-powered roller coaster rides for the crowd is a high grade of approved collective freakability.

Lowering the floor deep down to the boiling groundwater of euphoria, home of the bass, JDB arouses a swarm of sophisticated rhythms with a cordial punch from there. The space in between fills with sensuality, lascivious energy, temptation, tightness, and blasts of heat. "Minimalism" means "reduction of conformity" here.

Ranging from the soulful vibes of Casa Profunda via West Coast House to all sorts of Club Funk, his versatile dance sets are strictly intoxicating, percussive, pumping, stimulating, uplifting, hypertonic, vinyl-based, and of timeless quality. They rock. Recent party reviews rave about JDB's "oeuvre of massive dancefloor destruction" with an "auditive tsunami" effect of "pure madness", encouraging to experience his "exciting mix session (that) can manage your body in a way you didn't expect". The prodigal groove becomes sensually entangled with the syncopated body of love…

JDB played many popular places and events in Germany, Europe and the world. A selection: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires (Morocco, Urania), Cologne, Corfu, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva (Weetamix), Hamburg, Kassel (Documenta X, Stammheim), Krakow, Leipzig, Mannheim (Time Warp 9), Milano (Salone Internazionale del Mobile), Munich (Ultraschall), Offenbach (Robert Johnson), Osaka (Club Clapper, Rockets, Saomai), Paris (Batofar, Concrete), Tokyo (Colors Studio, Underground, NU), Toronto (Studio 99), Warszaw, Wroclaw, Zurich (Aera, Dachkantine).

During the winterly German Dec/Jan season, JDB held a summer residency in Santiago de Chile from 1997-2000. Longtime friends with the artists from the notorious Chile connection, he accompanied and supported these acclaimed performers over the years, among them: atom™, Mambotur, Ricardo Villalobos, Señor Coconut, Sieg über die Sonne (Tobias Freund + Dandy Jack).

From 2006-08, JDB was involved in A&R activities for Cologne-based Treibstoff Recordings, provider of high-energy club fuels, and participated in forming the musical profile of the associated WIR label.

A side note from the past: in the 80es, under the alias of Hypnobeat, he conceived an early, seminal form of electronic dance music. Including an array of up to six synchronized rhythm machines, JDB programmed, released and performed tracks with a tribal "Prototech" approach, anticipating a phenomenon that would be denoted Techno a few years later.


Lounge

James Dean Brown's classical Lounge sets give off glamourous vibes with a touch of decadence, characterizing today's extravagant lifestyle.

Asking for the dance of the blue hour on a trip to Lotus Land's Narcôte d'Azur, James Dean Brown concocts a brazenly seductive arrangement of exquisite sounds by exhausting the whole spectrum of secret emotions. A relaxing cocktail of Exotica, Big Band Blues Noir, Loungecore, Mambo, Crime Jazz and other tropicalia from the golden age of coolness conveys an impression of the sophisticated verve that modern nightlife agents display when putting silver golf balls into champagne coolers which are casually lying around. The ladies' romantic looks ignite rainbows through the finely cut cocktail glasses, which burn into PDA monitors. As a result, men's hearts melt like amorous ice cubes on hot bed sheets.

A former resident of Frankfurt's famous (but meanwhile extinct) Coconut Groove bar, restaurant and "metropolitan public living room", and of the award-winning Luna Bar, JDB is now furnishing classy venues like Bar Tausend and Solar in Berlin with made-to-measure music selections. Beyond doubt, one of the highlights in his DJ career was a booking for a billionaires' gala in the garden of the luxury hotel Cala di Volpe in Porto Cervo on the island of Sardinia.

Other peak performances include a live remix of the 'Quiet Club' environmental light installation score by Brian Eno at the Galleria of the Fair and Exhibition Centre, Frankfurt, and providing the musical accompaniment for the exhibition "Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. The Art of Two Cities" at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. In the meantime, JDB continues refining the development and presentation of space and event-related, custom-made music concepts for international clubs, bars, lounges, galleries, art and media spaces, festivals, agencies, stores, and – as close to the spirituality of sound as he could get – even once in a church.


Radio

From 08/1997 to 11/2005, James Dean Brown produced a weekly, 60-minutes live radio broadcast entitled Elektropensturm (Electropical Storm) on Radio X in Frankfurt (thursdays, 22-23h). "In(tro)ducing the Unimaginable", the show presented an amazing variety of musical styles, formats and themes – whether acoustic or electronic, binary or orchestal – by storytelling.

JDB was taking tours of the technological evolution from Magnetopop via Dope Exotica and Stonertronics to Heavy Listening, and other sparkling sources of escapism. In doing so, he brought up the "Strange and Unusual" from all disciplines beyond the peak of electronic freestyle entertainment: favourites, treasures, curiosities, and sounds returned to the wild.

The delight in playing music bears strange fruits sometimes, little musical oddities seek for attention. JDB takes a trip to the machine cellar of the fluid fairy forest. He bypasses the serpentine way to weirdo electronics, to the electrotechnology within the guts of the strangest of all machines. He marries "pyche" to "delicacy" in the lounge that steams with electricity and is concealed behind the mirrors. He decodes noise and silence – the silence before the lull of the program crash. Last outburst of beauty in the eye of the electropical storm…

JDB's shows meandered through the best of all moods, off the beaten paths of mechanical functionality and background noise. The platform of surprises was open for everybody who has not listened to anything, yet, or to everything – and for the dearest friends of small wonders.


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