Michael Beinhorn
James Michael Beinhorn is an American musician and music producer.
Life
Michael Beinhorn started his musical career in the late '70s in New York City. While he attended high school, he earned a synthesizer with the aim to play in a band. Together with drummer Fred Maher, the sound engineer Martin Bisi and bassist Bill Laswell, he founded in 1978 at the age of 17 years to the band, which was renamed a year later material. The band's style was a fusion of jazz, funk, punk, hip -hop and world music. In 1979, the debut EP Temporary Music appeared; 1981, after the resignation Bisis, the eponymous debut album. Without college education and formal training began Beinhorn addition to his work as a musician to work as a graphic artist in the early 80s.
After Laswell and Beinhorn jointly produced an album for Nona Hendryx and Patti LaBelle, Laswell was established in 1983 engaged in the production of Herbie Hancock 's fifth studio album Future Shock. Beinhorn worked with this production as co-producer, and together they wrote, among other pieces of the dance hit Rockit. Rockit was one of the first commercially successful songs, which included elements of hip-hop such as scratching.
1985 Beinhorn separated by Laswell and material and began working as an independent record producer. He produced, inter alia, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soul Asylum, Ozzy Osbourne and Soundgarden. In 2004 he was nominated for his work on the album Natural Selection of the band Fuel for a Grammy. Throughout his career, he also developed the recording format Ultra Analog, which particularly emphasizes low frequencies.