James Bernard

James Bernard(drums, keyboards, weirdness, reason refills)

James Bernard has a long and critically well received career in music, he works for Propellerhead Software (makers of Reason) as in-house artist relations and all round Reason expert, he is the goto person for a lot of the artist’s when they get stuck, even at 2am. Just ask A Guy Called Gerald or DJ Pierre. He creates Re-Fills for Reason under his own name, and music for them to showcase what is possible with the software, as he travels around the world performing, giving demos and training seminars on Propellerhead products. Check out his Reason Refills at the propellerheads.

James has released many records since 1993. As Influx on Sapho records, a sister label of UK label Rising High. His first ambient album, Atmospherics was released in 1994 on well respected label Rising High. He also releases on Isophlux Records (as Influx and Protocol), Analog Records (as Influx), BML Records (as Influx) and now on Three Sixty Records. In 1997 he teamed up with DJ Ed Weingarten (aka Displacer) and formed the 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 moive "Blade" and used on the multi gold selling soundtrack CD from the film. Please see discogs.com for his complete discography.

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James Bernard
Flashback - Out October 2007

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