James Dean Brown | Club

James Dean Brown is deeply rooted in the adventuresome Perlon family (Markus Nikolai, Dimbiman, Pantytec, Ricardo Villalobos, Dandy Jack etc.) already since the times before the label has been launched. In 1996 he founded the emotronic Club Funk project Narcotic Syntax (releases on Perlon and WIR), which he re-boosted together with his meanwhile steady companion yapacc in April 2003.

Furthermore, regarded as the San Narciso liaison of the notorious Chile connection, JDB is closely associated with the multiColor Recordings community, including artists who are not only long-time friends (Sieg über die Sonne, Señor Coconut, Mambotur), but also acclaimed live acts he supported as a DJ from time to time. Since 2006 he is involved in activities for the Cologne-based Treibstoff and WIR platforms, having been designated to deal with A&R matters for these labels.

DJing officially for more than 15 years, James Dean Brown has gathered incredible musical experience and developed unconditional love and passion for the essence of music as primary carrier for emotions. Thus he combines an exciting variety of styles within his sets, which are designed for gaining the emotional maximum. A DJ colleague from Tokyo commented: "Listening to his set is like listening to music history." File under "Potpourri Flow" – purists weep miserably.

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 accumulate substantial matters the flow of which often takes deliberately unexpected turns. Following the inner impulse of lowering the club down to the boiling ground water of euphoria, at the same time placing the levelling rule higher, he rouses a swarming mass of fidgety grooves with an insidiously pounding punch in the gut. On this occasion, the space that's created in between is filled up with lascivious rhythms and sophisticated arrangements, with tightness, shuffle and blasts of Funk. The result is always a sparkling cocktail of sensuality, imagination, self-irony, physically impressing quality, sultry metaphorics and surprise factors.

JDB not only played many popular clubs in Germany but also performed in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Gdansk, Genève, Krakow, Milano, Paris, Porto Cervo/Sardinia (spinning at a billionaires' gala!), Torun/PL, Warszaw, Wroclaw, Zurich, Buenos Aires, Osaka (1|2), Tokyo (1|2), Toronto, Valparaíso/CHL and other global points of interest. In the summer seasons of 1997-2000 he held a winter residency in Santiago de Chile.

His performance doesn't aim at the attainment of a single musical climax but rather pursues the permanent condition of excitement for the whole night. The musical furnishings may be equipped with rough edges, indeed, which require the crowd's greatest possible flexibility in motion. The mix draws on plentiful resources, the guests decide on the dosage. JDB's versatile electronic dance sets are strictly sensual, deep, dope, funky, percussive, progressive, pumping, uplifting and stroking. They rock! The prodigal rhythm becomes sensually entangled with the syncopated body of love…

Lounge

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

They marry "pyche" to "delicacy" during a splendid, never-ending megatrip. Their charm is generated by interweaving music from five decades – whether acoustic or electronic, binary or orchestal – in such a manner that the different styles, all of which promise well-being or diversion, perfectly merge with each other. JDB established a series of so-called "Dope Exotica", conveying music from most different sources of escapism to an intoxicating, tropical flow. This enchanting mix from behind the mirrors and other dimensions, capable of breaking every stylistic sound barrier, suggests an exotic ambience that resembles the feeling of being stoned without having dropped any psychoactive substances:

Mysteries in melodies, harmonies and arrangements reflect cathartic laid-back signals having been sent out from the silver nail fixing the Southern Cross. They excavate the aural catechism of an ancient smart community. They represent the black hole devouring every kind of sonic matter to spit it out again in a wildstyle frenzy. They surf the merged waves of future Loungecore, exotic sexuality, intelligent silliness and complex absurdity. They reintroduce metamorphing lifeforms to the wild. They reveal tightness in highest perfection while discharging themselves passionately. They define the next logical step in maladjusted contemporary Jazz.

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