Hammondbeat

Hammondbeat Records, (founded 2002) is an American record label dedicated to bands and fans of the organ sound. Hammondbeat finds its origins in 1997 as the fan website JTQgroove for the Hammond organ led Acid Jazz band (James Taylor Quartet). Over the first five years, JTQgroove grew as a fan collective that moved well beyond the constraints of one artist, and soon attracted many next-generation organ-centric bands, leading to a recording project with The Link Quartet (Piacenza, Italy). The Link Quartet were greatly influenced by the sound established by JTQ 15 years earlier. "Beat.It" was the project, and while JTQ influences can be heard, The Link Quartet found themselves leaders with 10 years or more professional experience from each founding member, and a young genius on keys, Paolo Negri, to super-charge the recording.

Unlike most labels, Hammondbeat doesn't involve a particular genre in the traditional sense, but rather embraces all genres of music which the organ sound has influenced — virtually all of them! As such, Hammondbeat's range is ever-expanding. Strategically, Hammondbeat's projects are intended to facilitate a multi-tiered media onslaught, with all opportunities both artistic and overtly commercial being fair game. Hammondbeat controls most of its catalog to be both entertainment and content for the marketing and synchronization world. With an untamed cross-genre agenda, Hammondbeat is primed to meet nearly any licensing need, while working to expand the listener experience with brand-guaranteed productions from bands never heard of, but soon never forgotten.

In addition to operating as record label, Hammondbeat is also an online community connecting fans to a hundreds of organ bands and the indie labels that support them. Including discographies, downloads, web radio, forum, and its mailing list, Hammondbeat serves it original mission while putting its money where its mouth is.

Hammondbeat is A Funk And Groove Music Revolution!

Discography

Catalog Titles

*2002 HBR-001 "Beat.it" CD (The Link Quartet)
*2003 HBR-002 "Wilson Chance: The Sound of Danger" CD (Various Artists)
*2004 HBR-003 "Italian Playboys" CD (The Link Quartet)
*2006 HBR-004 "Bulletproof Beat" CD (The Special Agents)
*2006 HBR-005 "Wit" CD (The Yards)
*2006 HBR-006 "Evolution: 1997-2001" CD (The Link Quartet)
*2006 HBR-007 "The Living Eye" CD (The Men From S.P.E.C.T.R.E.)
*2006 HBR-008 "Don't Spoil The Soup!" CD (Phat Fred)
*2007 HBR-009 "A Bigger Tomorrow" CD (Paolo 'Apollo' Negri)
*2008 HBR-010 "The Origin of Captain Hammond" CD (Captain Hammond)
*2008 HBR-011 "Fat Lip" CD/LP (Fred Leslie's missing Link)

Limited Edition Titles

*2005 HBL-001 "Oh My! EP" CD (The Dansettes)
*2005 HBL-002 "Stinky Stinky EP" CD (Fil Lorenz Soul-tet)
*2006 HBL-003 "Scream On!" CD (Screamin' Retro)
*2006 HBL-004 "Feed A Fever" CD (Baron Samedi Ecstatic Soul Quintet)
*2006 HBL-005 "Decade EP" CD (The Link Quartet)
*2006 HBL-006 "On The Outset" CD (Nick Rossi Set)
*2007 HBL-007 "...with the Hammond, in the Beauty EP" CD (Leslie Overdrive)
*2007 HBL-008 "Applecore EP" UNRELEASED CD / DIGITAL ONLY (Paolo 'Apollo' Negri)
*2007 HBL-009 "Building A Bigger Tomorrow" BONUS CD (Paolo 'Apollo' Negri)
*2008 HBL-010 "Searching For A Bit Of Popularity" CD (Low Fidelity Jet-Set Orchestra)
*2008 HBL-011 "Sounds From The Kitten Casion" CD (Modus)

45 RPM

*2007 HB7-01 "A Tad Askew b/w Oily" 7" (Leslie Overdrive)
*2007 HB7-02 "Bahia Soul b/w Jazz Rocker" 7" (Low Fidelity Jet-Set Orchestra)
*2008 HB7-03 "Origin b/w Mercury Wonderland" 7" (Captain Hammond vs The Futuro Seven)
*2008 HB7-04 "Lady Day and John Coltrane b/w Hey Bulldog" 7" (Tony Face Big Roll Band)
*2008 HB7-05 "Yu Nou Rili (live) b/w Memphis Train (live)" 7" (Phat Fred)
*2008 HB7-06 "Paparazzi b/w A Blues For Me" 7" (Paolo "Apollo" Negri & Teresa Reeves-Gilmer)

Digital Only & Fan Editions CD's

*2004 HBB.001 "Pole Position" CD-R (Fast 3)
*2004 HBB.002 "Italian Playboys International EP" CD-R (The Link Quartet)
*2004 HBB.003 "Strudel Girl VS. The New Acid Wave" CD-R (The Link Quartet)
*2005 HBB.004 "Mile High Mayhem" CD (The Link Quartet)
*2006 HBB-005 "Evolution: 1997-2001 (part 1)" (The Link Quartet)
*2006 HBB-006 "Evolution: 1997-2001 (part 2)" (The Link Quartet)
*2007 HBB.007 "With the Finger on the Trigger" (Men From S.P.E.C.T.R.E.)
*2007 HBB.008 "Sugartown" (Men From S.P.E.C.T.R.E.)
*2007 HBB.009 "Never Enough" UNRELEASED (Ondrej Pivec Organic Quartet)
*2007 HBB.010 "The Grifter" (Fast 3)
*2007 HBB.011 "Entering The Timesphere" [EP] (Nice Price featuring Paolo 'Apollo' Negri)
*2007 HBB-012 "Long Live The Link" (The Link Quartet)
*2007 HBB-013 "Soundsational Movements" (Modulo5)
*2005 HBB.014 "Cosmic Candy" CD (Captain Hammond)
*2007 HBB.014 "Cosmic Cantina" (Captain Hammond)
*2008 HBB.015 "Getup & Groove" (The Getup)
*2008 HBB.016 "Stack em High" (Max Paparella)
*2008 HBB.017 "Phat Fred Live In Denmark" (Phat Fred)
*2008 HBB.018 "The Oppenheimer Transmissions" (The Futuro Seven)
*2008 HBB.019 "(I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind (EP)" (Fred Leslie's missing Link)
*2008 HBB.020 "Going Down Slowly (EP)" (Fred Leslie's missing Link)

Links

* [http://www.hammondbeat.com Hammondbeat Records]
* [http://www.linkquartet.com The Link Quartet]
* [http://www.thedansettes.com The Dansettes]
* [http://www.thespecialagents.co.uk The Special Agents]
* [http://www.collectivewestjazz.com Fil Lorenz]
* [http://www.myspace.com/dontspoilthesoup Phat Fred]
* [http://www.myspace.com/fastthree Fast3]