Michael Beinhorn

Michael James Beinhorn is an American musician and record producer .

Life

Michael Beinhorn began his music career in New York City in the late 1970s . While he was still in high school, he bought a synthesizer with the aim of playing in a band. Together with drummer Fred Maher , sound engineer Martin Bisi and bassist Bill Laswell , he founded the Zu Band in 1978 at the age of 17, which was renamed Material a year later . The band's style was a fusion of jazz , funk , punk, hip-hop and world music . In 1979 the debut EP Temporary Music was released ; 1981, after the departure of Bisis, the debut album of the same name. With no college education or formal training, Beinhorn began working as a graphic designer in the early 80s alongside his work as a musician.

After Laswell and Beinhorn produced an album together for Nona Hendryx and Patti LaBelle , Laswell was hired in 1983 to produce Herbie Hancock's fifth studio album Future Shock . Beinhorn worked as a co-producer on this production, together they wrote the dance hit Rockit, among other pieces . Rockit was one of the first commercially successful songs to include elements from hip hop such as scratching .

In 1985, Beinhorn separated from Laswell and material and began to work as an independent music producer . So he produced u. a. The Parachute Club , the Red Hot Chili Peppers , Soul Asylum , Ozzy Osbourne and Soundgarden . In 2004 he was nominated for a Grammy for his work on the album Natural Selection by the band Fuel . In the course of his work, he also developed the ultra analog recording format , which emphasizes particularly low sound frequencies.

Discography (selection)

• 1981: Material - Memory Serves
• 1983: Herbie Hancock - Future Shock
• 1987: Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
• 1989: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
• 1992: Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
• 1994: Soundgarden - Superunknown
• 1994: Aerosmith - Blind Man and Walk on Water (on the best-of album Big Ones )
• 1995: Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
• 1996: Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
• 1998: Hole - Celebrity Skin
• 1998: Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
• 2002: Korn - Untouchables
• 2005: Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
• 2006: Black Label Society : Shot to Hell
• 2006: The Bronx - The Bronx
• 2010: Hole - Nobody's Daughter

Web links

• Michael Beinhorn at Allmusic (English)
• Michael Beinhorn in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000455515
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.furious.com/perfect/martinbisi.html