Hypno5ive

Hypno5ive is a south Florida alternative dance music dj and designer. He founded the historic Edge in Kendall, Florida in 1990 and helped give rise to the fledgling South Beach dance club scene of the time while promoting EBM and industrial music. Additional club work over the last decade includes: the Church, Red Room, Another World, Hell's Kitchen, Noise Unit, The Catacombs at Power Studios, Thrashcan, DarkWave Club, and Marsbar.

Hypno5ive produced extensive promotional work for radio, video and club appearances as well as concert support for Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, Ramones, My Life with the Thrillkill Kult, Gene Loves Jezebel, Front 242, Pankow, Skinny Puppy, Cat Rapes Dog, Vomito Negro, and local Miami industrial music bands such as Vociferous Mutes and Another Nation which helped develop alternative music popularity in the region as well as draw national and international attention to the underground music environment in Miami. In addition to being a frequent contributor to the many alternative press publications, he wrote and published his own alternative music reviews, including the music publication "220 Volts" while living in Stockholm, Sweden.

Additional work include studio remixes of Front 242 hits for Miami distributors as well as conceptual artwork on various alternative and industrial band albums.

In the mid 90's, one of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids first self made promo tapes was discovered among his collection. This find was disputed by some fans as never existing. After an extensive debate by members of the web community and fans the "Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat" was sold to a collector from Japan.

Today Hypno5ive resides in Miami and works in the graphic design industry, does web development, flash animation, and video editing.

Continuing to work on mixing music, a new series of EBM and industrial music mixes, labeled "psychosis101", were started in 2007. "Pychosis101" to date includes Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Rotterdam, and Los Angeles mixes.

Early Years, Nice & Nasty / Double Duce

The first exposure to being DJ was in the late 70's and early 80's spinning Punk Rock and New Wave records at parties taking inspiration from the University of Miami's WVUM 90.5 FM radio station before being attracted to early hip-hop.

Attracted to new styles of music Hypno5ive worked under the name Nice & Nasty during the mid to late 80's, first as part of a duo with another DJ from New York then on his own playing a role in a different style of emerging music, the Miami hip-hop / electro / Miami Bass movement. During the developmental years of hip-hop and bass in Miami, Nice & Nasty played at numerous events including jams at local parks, Video Powerhouse, Dade County Youth Fair, Calle Ocho festival, live mixes on air, and brought DJ battles and hip-hop shows to Key West, Florida showcasing local South Florida talent such as DJ Laz, MC Mighty Rock, MC Flex and Beatmaster Clay-D.

Nice & Nasty was member DJ of the group Double Duce, he performed with MC Mighty Rock and recorded scratching effects at Henry Stone's (of TK Records fame) studio in Miami for Amos Larkins production of "School Breakdown" and later on "Fresh Out the Box" today considered among the early titles categorized as Proto-Bass contributing to the development of Miami Bass.

Working with Henry Stone, Paul Klein, and Larry Davis (Instant Funk) at Hot Productions, he continued promoting the studio's Miami bass and rap music acts including Gucci Crew II, L'Trimm, Bose, and comedy rap duo 2 Live Jews.

Nice & Nasty's exposure as a DJ occurred at Miami's Skylight Express alongside Mohamed Moretta and then independently on weekly radio broadcasts live from the club at the height of the Miami bass popularity in the mid 80's.

External links

* The Miami Herald (July 12, 1990) Kendall Nightclub on the Cutting Edge.
* The Miami New Times (June 29, 1994) Swelter 11.
* Wikipedia The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat.
* Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (1998) Marilyn Manson: the Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Plexus Publishing. ISBN 0-85965-277-7
* The Miami Herald (December 14, 1984) Club Scene Gives Teens Everything But Booze
* The Miami Herald (February 22, 1984) Break Your Booty
* Papawheelie. "Miami Bass: The Primer" http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/miami-bass-the-primer.htm
* Joe, [http://www.electroempire.com/miami.htm Miami Gets Put on the Musical Map] , 2003