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The Beyonder is a fictional character in Marvel Comics Universe. Created by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck, the immensely powerful Beyonder first appeared in Secret Wars vol. 1 #1 (May 1984) as an unseen force. He reappears in Secret Wars II #1 (July 1985), which was created by Jim Shooter and Al Milgrom.

Fictional character biography[link]

Secret Wars[link]

The Beyonder is the sum total of a parallel reality called the Beyond-Realm or simply "Beyond", hence the name "Beyonder". This dimension is accidentally accessed by nebbishy lab technician Owen Reece. Part of the energy from the dimension escapes and imbues Reece with near-infinite powers, which he wields as the villainous Molecule Man - potentially one of the most powerful villains in the Marvel Universe. The remaining energy of the pocket dimension apparently gains sentience and curiosity. Using its vast powers, the Beyonder creates a planet called "Battleworld" out of pieces of various planets (one such piece being a suburb of Denver) and abducts a number of superheroes and supervillains from Earth so that he can observe the never-ending battle between good and evil that rages within humanity at large.

Initially explaining the nature of the experiment to the involuntary participants, the entity identifies itself only as "I am from beyond." The name "Beyonder" is quickly applied by Galactus and adopted by all others present. Galactus, sensing that the Beyonder could alleviate his perpetual hunger, immediately and aggressively charges into the Beyond-Realm through a dimensional rift, followed by Doctor Doom, who seeks power for his own purposes. Both are repelled, but the information gathered by Doom later enables him to use the body of the sound-based villain Klaw as a medium to steal the energies of Galactus' Worldship and then the power of the Beyonder itself. With the Beyonder's power, Doom constructs a 200-mile (320 km) high tower of golden stone as temporary quarters, and then states that he has given up his ambitions for conquest, instead simply being content with freeing his mother's soul from Mephisto. The Beyonder's consciousness then possesses Klaw's damaged mind and manipulates Doom into unconsciously squandering his power against the superheroes, distracting him enough for the Beyonder to steal his power back.^[1]

This story formed the basis of the first Secret Wars twelve-issue limited series. The series sold incredibly well, with circulation reaching up to 750,000 copies per issue, numbers reminiscent of the height of comic book sales during the Golden Age of the 1940s.^{[citation needed]}

Secret Wars II[link]

Due to the high sales of the first series, a second Secret Wars series, the nine-issue Secret Wars II miniseries, was published. This series crossed over into almost every comic that Marvel was publishing at the time.

Intrigued by what he has witnessed during the first Secret Wars, the Beyonder comes to Earth to walk among humans and study them and learn of human desire firsthand. He creates a human body for himself; originally, this body resembles Molecule Man. He also transforms a human into Thundersword.^[2] Finally the Beyonder creates a form based on that of Captain America.

At first, the Beyonder has a complete lack of understanding of human biology and society, which leads to numerous difficult situations, some serious and some humorous. For instance, he needs to learn by example the difference between edible objects and non-edible ones, and needs to be toilet-trained by Spider-Man. When he learns about the monetary system from Luke Cage, the Hero for Hire, he transforms the Manhattan Heroes for Hire office building into gold as thanks for their assistance.^[3] He later comes under the influence of a criminal named Vinnie and becomes the head of a criminal cartel; he then uses mind control to assume control over the entire Earth, only to relinquish control when he grows restless and frustrated with the lack of free will that the world now displays.^[4] He then transforms the elf Algrim into Kurse. The Beyonder became enamored with the beauty and power potential within singing superheroine Dazzler, resulting in a brief love affair.^[5] On a train to New York, the Beyonder meets the mutant Tabitha Smith, also known as Boom Boom. Thinking he is a mutant, Boom Boom accompanies him. The Beyonder abandons her but returns and takes her to Xavier's school. At the school, Tabitha is terrified when the teams of the X-Men and the New Mutants fight the Beyonder. The Beyonder takes her to a planet where the Celestials are located. There, threatening to destroy the universe, the Beyonder fights and seemingly defeats a number of Celestials. Fearful of a further battle taking place between the Beyonder and the Celestials, Tabitha demands to be returned to Earth. Back on Earth, Boom Boom alerts the Avengers about the Beyonder. Summoning the Beyonder, Boom Boom thereby leads him into an ambush by the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and other costumed champions. The Beyonder, who had regarded Boom Boom as his only friend, allows the Avengers to defeat him, but then leaves. Boom Boom leaves during the battle.^[6]

The Beyonder then acts in an attempt to "preserve life" throughout the universe by seemingly eliminating and then resurrecting the manifestation of Death.^[7] Throughout the course of the series, the demon Mephisto seeks to steal his powers or to destroy him to win the favor of Death. Mephisto sends an army of supervillains to attack the Beyonder , who is saved by the Thing.^[8] The Beyonder then fights the Puma, believing that the only purpose left in his life is to help the Puma find his by allowing Puma to become one with the universe and allow Puma to slay him- Puma having been convinced of the Beyonder's nature as a malicious threat-, but a casual comment by Spider-Man about the Beyonder's manipulations causes Puma to lose faith in himself at the crucial moment, and the Beyonder survives unscratched.^[9]

The Beyonder then feels the futility of all his efforts and decides to destroy the entire multiverse.^[10] He starts by killing the New Mutants.^[11] He then battles Phoenix.^[12]

The Beyonder reconsiders destroying the multiverse, and resurrects the New Mutants. Realizing that he can never truly understand what its like to be mortal as long as he has his powers as a safety net, he constructs a machine to leech and contain his powers, turning him mortal. Amazed with his new found "limitations", he quickly becomes fearful of being without his power and takes his power back from the machine. Intrigued by this new experience, the Beyonder tries to create for himself a mortal human infant body that can retain his omnipotence, but will allow him to grow and learn at a normal rate. Although he is on the verge of succeeding, he is killed in the process by the Molecule Man. The Beyonder's near-limitless power is returned to the now-empty "Beyond-Realm", where it forms a Big Bang and created a new universe.^[13]

Deadpool Team-Up[link]

Long after the Secret Wars II crossover had ended, a Deadpool special featured the "Secret Wars II continues in this issue" corner tag that was used during that original storyline. In this issue, a younger, less-experienced Deadpool is hired by the Kingpin to kill the Beyonder. The flashback sequence ends with Deadpool chasing him into a portal with a footnote saying "to be continued in Secret Wars III."^[14] This storyline has yet to be followed up on.

Kosmos and Maker[link]

The tale of the Beyonder continues several years later when it is revealed that the energy which comprises the Beyonder and the energy that gives the Molecule Man his powers needs to be combined in order to create the basis for a mentally stable, mature, nigh-omnipotent being to be born. The Beyonder then merges with the Molecule Man.^[15] This being, called Kosmos, expels the Molecule Man from its form, and returns him to Earth. Kosmos takes on a female form and is tutored by Kubik, touring the universe with him.^[16] When the Molecule Man's lover, Volcana, leaves him, Owen Reece gets angry, extracts the Beyonder from Kosmos, and proceeds to attack him until Kubik intervenes.^{[volume & issue needed]}

At some unknown point, Kosmos goes mad and assumes a mortal form, now calling itself the Maker. After the now amnesiac Maker destroys a Shi'ar colony, the Imperial Guard manage to imprison it in the interstellar prison called the Kyln. The Maker's madness takes control of several inmates, but is finally subdued by the nihilist Thanos and several of his allies among the prisoners. Thanos confronts the Maker, and, by refusing to reveal its origins at a critical juncture, manipulates it to psychically shut down its own mind. Thanos instructs the Shi'ar that the body should be kept alive but brain-dead, or the Beyonder essence would go free again.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Apparently, Thanos had encountered the Beyonder in the past, but this has never been explained, as Thanos was dead at the time of Secret Wars II. Thanos' flashback showed Thanos as a youngster.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Beyond! and Annihilation[link]

The Beyonder returned in the series named after him, Beyond!.^[17] This being was called The Beyonder in the second issue. This "Beyonder" is once again in command of the patchwork Battleworld, where it is revealed that he has been collecting various superhumans and pitting them in combat with one another. Eventually, the pool of heroes and villains featured in the mini-series discovers that this Beyonder is actually the Stranger, who has been conducting studies of super-humanity through re-creations of the original Secret War.

In the "Annihilation" crossover, the former Herald of Galactus, the Fallen One, now under the control of Thanos,^[18] is sent to investigate the aftermath of the Kyln's destruction by the Annihilation Wave and ascertain the Beyonder's fate. The Fallen One soon finds the lifeless form of Kosmos in the rubble.^[19]

New Avengers: The Illuminati[link]

In New Avengers: The Illuminati #3, featuring a retcon of past events, Charles Xavier reveals that in the original Secret War, he had initially planned to use his powers to make everyone fall asleep and thus buy him and Reed Richards time to formulate an escape plan, but feared the Beyonder's wrath. However, he immediately sensed a strange mental presence and attempted to mind-scan the Beyonder, revealing him as one of the Inhumans previously ruled over by fellow Illuminati member Black Bolt. Xavier also deduced the apparent secret behind the Beyonder's seemingly godlike abilities, which was that the Beyonder was not only an Inhuman but also a mutant, like Xavier and his own team of X-Men, and the exposure of his mutant genes to Terrigen Mists had created an unprecedented reaction, bestowing upon him more amazing power and knowledge than all other Inhumans of his time.^[20]

This revelation leads to a confrontation with the Beyonder during the events of the second Secret War, wherein Black Bolt expresses his extreme displeasure toward the Beyonder's activities. When encountered, the Beyonder is dwelling in a simulacrum of Manhattan Island on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. The scene playing out is one from the Secret Wars II series (the destruction of Power Man and Iron Fist's headquarters). At the 2007 Philadelphia Comic-Con, writer Brian Michael Bendis admitted the asteroid scene was deliberately vague, allowing readers to draw their own connections to Secret Wars II.^{[citation needed]} He also claimed he did not receive enough credit for maintaining the character's 1987 jheri curl.^{[citation needed]}

The story itself is deliberately ambiguous; Black Bolt, for example, does not remember the mutant Inhuman who vanished, making it possible the Beyonder arranged all this as a mind game, as he had when he lived as a Human and a Mutant, trying to find a purpose in his existence.^{[original research?]} Iron Man also says that he remembers the Beyonder, though Jim Rhodes was Iron Man at the time of the original Secret Wars. Tony Stark was Iron Man for most of Secret Wars II.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Powers and abilities[link]

Although not native to this dimension, the Beyonder was one of the most powerful beings ever to exist in the Marvel Universe. In the original Secret Wars storyline, he was the be-all and end-all of the Marvel universe^[21] that took human form to better understand the nature of human beings. After his creator, Jim Shooter, left Marvel, writer-editor Tom DeFalco, displeased with Shooter's tenure at Marvel, re-tooled the Beyonder and altered his origin. He was no longer omnipotent as many initially believed, being an incomplete Cosmic Cube, with less raw power and the same limitations of a complete cube. Nonetheless, he possessed vast psionic abilities allowing him to manipulate matter and energy at a cosmic level beyond all but the most powerful of cosmic entities.

He was shown and described to repel Galactus "like a bug",^[22] and even greatly exceeded the collected energy of the latter's World-Ship.^[23] He once destroyed a galaxy on a whim to meet his needs during the first Secret Wars,^[22] and later, by using his entire energies, created a universe out of his own being.^[24] When the Molecule Man extracted the Beyonder from Kosmos, their battle took place in more than three dimensions, and threatened vast portions of reality.^[25] In Kosmos' 'Maker' incarnation, she was stated as capable of reversing The Crunch itself, essentially collapsing the entire universe.^[26] The Beyonder could endow himself with a corporeal form of practically limitless strength and endurance. However, his scale of power has been stated as below that of the Living Tribunal and Eternity,^[24] the Celestials,^[27] or the Molecule Man (when unfettered from his emotional weaknesses).^[25]

Other versions[link]

Guardians of the Galaxy[link]

In the Earth-691 timeline, the Beyonder provides Vance Astro of the Guardians of the Galaxy with a costume resembling a Symbiote.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Mutant X[link]

In the alternate Earth of Mutant X, the Beyonder allies with Dracula, to wage war on Earth's forces and to confront the entity known as the 'Goblyn Queen'. Many of the Mutant X heroes are killed in this confrontation. The battle ends up threatening all realities.^{[volume & issue needed]}

In other media[link]

Television[link]

• The Beyonder makes an appearance in the Spider-Man cartoon voiced by Earl Boen. However, his appearance in the cartoon greatly differs from his normal comics, featuring the brief "super hero" costume the Beyonder wore in Secret Wars II along with a new haircut and a goatee as opposed to having a clean-shaven face with a disco outfit. He is also more of a neutral force than a villain. The Beyonder first appeared in the episode "Arrival" of Season 5, the first chapter of that Secret Wars in the series. The Beyonder worked with Madame Web to prepare Spider-Man for the Secret Wars, supposedly to see whether good was more powerful than evil. He put Spider-Man and a small group of heroes selected by the web-slinger (Fantastic Four, Captain America, Iron Man, Storm, and the Black Cat) on a planet and pit them against a band of villains (Doctor Octopus, Doctor Doom, Alistair Smythe, the Lizard, and the Red Skull). During this time, Doctor Doom stole the Beyonder's powers in "Doom" (the third and last chapter to the Secret Wars), but he was defeated, and it was implied that he had planned the whole ordeal out before it began. The Beyonder had all the heroes Spider-Man had summoned to assist him forget their actions, and sent them home. Spider-Man, however, was needed for something bigger, so he was the only one whose memory was untouched. It was revealed that the evil Spider-Carnage had destroyed the entire multiverse with a giant bomb. However, when the destruction reached the Beyonder's own reality, he used all of his powers to roll back time, but since his powers were unlimited only in his own universe he would be unable to permanently undo Spider-Carnage's actions himself. Though it tested him to the extreme, he sent his servant, Madame Web, into the past to train Spider-Men from many different realities to find out which one would be worthy enough to lead the others against Spider-Carnage.

Parodies[link]

• Mister Mxyzptlk parodied the Beyonder in his first appearance in current continuity by assuming a form and identity that was similar in clothing and appearance to the Beyonder. He called himself "Ben Deroy", an anagram of "Beyonder." When asked by Lois Lane where he came from, he answers by saying, "Oh...here and there. Yonder, let's say. Yes. Yonder."^{[volume & issue needed]}

• In the Spider-Ham universe, "The Bee-Yonder" briefly appears to give Spider-Ham a version of the black uniform, stating that the familiar red-and-blue uniform was out of style.^{[volume & issue needed]}

[edit] Bibliography

• Secret Wars #1-12
• Secret Wars II #1-9

See also[link]

• Secret Wars
• Secret Wars II
• Kosmos
• Kubik
• Shaper of Worlds
• Cosmic entities (Marvel Comics)
• Marvel Universe
• Multiverse

References[link]

External links[link]

• Beyonder at Marvel.com
• Beyonder at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe

Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American session drummer, and is considered an influential and innovative exponent of funk.^[1] He is known for his strict musical time keeping^[2] and "The Purdie Shuffle".^[3]

Purdie recorded Soul Drums (1968) as a band leader and although he went on to record Alexander's Ragtime Band, the album remained unreleased until Soul Drums was reissued on CD in 2009 with the Alexander's Ragtime Band sessions. Other solo albums include Purdie Good (1971),Soul Is...Pretty Purdie (1972) and the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film Lialeh (1973).

Purdie was credited on the sound track album for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and more recently he was the drummer for the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair and appeared on the associated Broadway cast recording.^[4] In 2010, he had his portrait painted by Jane Moorhouse, an artist based in London.^[5]

Biography[link]

At an early age Purdie began hitting cans with sticks and learned the elements of drumming techniques from overhearing lessons being given by Leonard Heywood. He later took lessons from Heywood and played in Heywood's big band. Purdie's other influences at that time were Papa Jo Jones, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Joe Marshall and Art Blakey.^[6]

In 1961 he moved from his home town of Elkton, Maryland, to New York. There he played sessions with Mickey and Sylvia and regularly visited the Turf Club on 50th and Broadway, where musicians, agents, and promoters met and touted for business. It was during this period that he played for the saxophonist Buddy Lucas, who nicknamed him 'Mississippi Bigfoot'. Eventually Barney Richmond contracted him to play session work.^[6] Later Bernard Purdie added drum overdubs to tracks from these sessions,^[7] including "Ain't She Sweet", "Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby" and "Sweet Georgia Brown".^[8] The main reason for this was to give them a punchier sound for the US market. These tracks were eventually released on January 31, 1964 by Polydor.^[9] Ringo Starr's physical approach to drumming was probably influenced by Purdie's Motown style.^[10]

Purdie was contracted by arranger Sammy Lowe to play a session with James Brown in 1965 and recording session records also show that Purdie played on "Ain't That A Groove"^[11] at the same session.^[6] This was one of several sessions he played with Brown and the track "Kansas City" from Brown's album Cold Sweat (1967), displays one of the most sophisticated and driving shuffles recorded for Brown's catalogue. Purdie is also credited on the albums Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud (1969)^[12] and Get on the Good Foot (1972) on which "Ain't That A Groove" appeared.^[13]

Purdie started working with Aretha Franklin as musical director in 1970 and held that position for five years,^[1] as well as drumming for Franklin's opening act, King Curtis and The King Pins. In 1970 he performed with both bands at the Fillmore West; the resulting live recordings were released as Aretha Live at the Fillmore West (1971) and King Curtis's Live at Fillmore West (1971).^[14] His best known track with Franklin was "Rock Steady",^[15] on which he played what he described as "a funky and low down beat". Of his time with Franklin he once commented that "backing her was like floating in seventh heaven".^[6]

Encounter Records[link]

In 1973 Purdie founded Encounter Records and released five albums

• EN 3000: Seldon Powell - Messin' With
• EN 3001: Sands of Time - Profile (with Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown)
• EN 3002: East Coast - East Coast (with Larry Blackmon, Gwen Guthrie)
• EN 3003: Frank Owens - Brown N Serve (with Hugh McCracken) ^[16]
• EN 3004: Harold Vick as "Sir Edward" - The Power of Feeling

Drumming style[link]

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Purdie shuffle variants^[17]  Play (help·info).

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Purdie shuffle variant^[18]  Play (help·info).

Purdie is known as a groove drummer with immaculate timing and makes use of precision half note, backbeats, and grooves.^[2] Purdie's signature sixteenth note hi-hat lick pish-ship, pish-ship, pish-ship is distinct and hard to copy^[6] and he is known for his versatility. He often employs a straight eight groove sometimes fusing several influences such as swing, blues and funk. He created now well-known drum pattern such as the Purdie shuffle, Half-Time Purdie Shuffle,^[18] also the Bernard Purdie half-time feel shuffle^[17][19][20] that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum.^[18] Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain", Death Cab For Cutie's "Grapevine Fires", and Toto's "Rosanna" (Rosanna shuffle).^[18][21] Purdie's shuffle can be heard on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters"^[22] and "Home At Last".^[18]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Soul Drums Direction (1968)
• Stand By Me Mega (1971)
• Purdie Good Prestige (1971)
• Soul Is ... Pretty Purdie Flying Dutchman (1972)
• Lialeh - Bryan (1973)
• Shaft - Prestige (1974)
• Delights of the Garden Celluloid (1975)
• Purdie As a Picture - Kilarnock (1993)
• Tokyo Jazz Groove Sessions - Lexington (1993)
• Coolin' 'n' Groovin' - Lexington/West 47th 1993 (1993)
• After Hours with The 3B's - 3B's (1993)
• The Hudson River Rats - 3B's (1994)
• Kick N Jazz Drum Beat Blocks (1996)
• Soul to Jazz I Act(1997)
• In the Pocket P Vine (1997)
• Soul to Jazz II Act (1998)
• Get It While You Can 3B's (1999)
• Purdie Good Cookin' Own Label (2003)

Contributions[link]

• Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga (1966)
• James Brown - Cold Sweat (1967)
• King Curtis and his Kingpins - Instant Soul (1967)
• The Soul Finders - Sweet Soul Music (1968)
• Albert Ayler - New Grass (1968)
• James Brown - Say It Loud-I'm Black & I'm Proud (1969)
• Al Kooper - You Never Know Who Your Friends Are (1969)
• Gary Burton - Good Vibes (Atlantic, 1969)
• Dizzy Gillespie - Cornucopia (Solid State, 1969)
• Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black (1972)
• James Brown - Get On the Good Foot (1972)
• Larry Coryell - Coryell (1969)
• BB King - Completely Well (1970)
• Robert Palmer's Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night (1970)
• Eddie Palmieri - Harlem River Drive (1970)
• Eddie Harris and Les McCann - Second Movement (Atlantic, 1971)
• Aretha Franklin - Aretha Live at Fillmore West (1971)
• King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West (1971)
• Larry Coryell - Fairyland (1971)
• Herbie Mann - Push, Push (1971)
• Dizzy Gillespie - The Real Thing (1971)
• Hubert Laws - Wild Flower (Atlantic, 1972)
• Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (1972)
• Esther Phillips - Alone Again Naturally (1972)
• Miles Davis - Get Up with It (1972)
• Ronnie Foster - Sweet Revival (1972)
• BB King - Guess Who (1973)
• Cat Stevens - Foreigner (1973)
• Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette (1973)
• Jimmy McGriff - Come Together (1974)
• Joe Cocker - I Can Stand a Little Rain (1974)
• Bama The Village Poet - Ghettos Of The Mind (1974)
• Cornell Dupree - Teasin' (1975)
• Todd Rundgren - Initiation (1975)
• Jorge Dalto - Chevere (1976)
• Hummingbird - We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (1976)
• Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (1976)
• Steely Dan - Aja (1977)^[6]
• Hummingbird - Diamond Nights (1977)
• Pee Wee Ellis - Home in the Country (1977)
• Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - You Can't Make Love Alone (1977)
• Joe Cocker - Luxury You Can Afford (1978)
• Dizzy Gillespie - Digital at Montreux, 1980 (Pablo, 1980)
• Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980)
• Jimmy McGriff - Blue to the Bone (1988)
• Elliott Randall - Still Reelin (2006)
• Hair - Broadway Cast Recording (2009)

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Everett, Walter. The Beatles as musicians: the Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford University Press US (2001). ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4
• Gottfridsson, Hans Olof; Sheridan, Tony and Beatles. The Beatles from Cavern to Star-Club: The Illustrated Chronicle, Discography & Price Guide 1957-1962. Premium Publishing (1997). ISBN 978-91-971894-7-7
• Kernfeld, Barry Dean. The new Grove dictionary of jazz second edition. Grove's Dictionaries Inc. (2002). Digitized 21 Dec (2006). ISBN 978-1-56159-284-5
• Miles, Barry and Badman, Keith. The Beatles Diary: The Beatles years. Omnibus Press (2001) ISBN 978-0-7119-8308-3
• Payne, Jim and Weinger, Harry. The Great Drummers of R&B Funk & Soul. Mel Bay Publications (2007). ISBN 978-0-7866-7303-2
• Rabb, Johnny; Brych, Ray and Lohman, Gregg. Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass for the Acoustic Drum Set: A Guide to Applying Today's Electronic Music to the Drum Set. Alfred Publishing (2001). ISBN 0-7579-9025-8
• Weinberg, Max. The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Greatest Drummers. Hal Leonard Corporation (2004). ISBN 978-0-634-08275-7
• York, William. Who's Who in Rock Music. Atomic Press (1978). Digitized 30 Aug 2007.

External links[link]

• Bernard Pretty Purdie at the Internet Movie Database
• "Official website". bernardpurdie.com. http://www.bernardpurdie.com. 
• Bernard Purdie RBMA lecture

Joey Beltram (born November 6, 1971 in Queens, New York City, United States) is an American DJ and record producer, best known for the pioneering recordings "Energy Flash" and "Mentasm".

Mentasm, co-produced with Mundo Muzique, became iconic within rave culture, as it was the track that gave birth to the "mentasm riff" (also known as the "Hoover sound"): a churning, dirgelike synth pattern that wormed into techno's communal genome and has since been mutated and reused in literally thousands of records.^{[citation needed]} Beltram and the "mentasm riff" are strongly associated with drum and bass, the Belgian techno scene, and the R&S record label, as well as hardcore/hard house in their various permutations since 1994.^{[citation needed]} Beltram was referenced as a pioneer in the late 1990s house music scene by Daft Punk, in their song "Teachers" off their 1997 debut album, Homework and author, Simon Reynolds, credited Beltram with having "revolutionized techno twice before the age of 21,^[1]" when describing both "Energy Flash" and "Mentasm" in his book Generation Ecstasy.

Throughout the years, Beltram has continually toured at major festivals around the globe.^[2] He has also continued releasing techno, with his 1993 and 1994 tracks "Aonox" on Visible and "the Beltram re-releases" on Trax, the "Caliber" EP on Warp, and his 1995 LP Places and 1996 single, "Ball Park" on Tresor counting among his work in the 1990s. He was also invited to release another album, Close Grind, on Daniel Miller's Novamute imprint under the JB³ alias.^[3]

In 1999, he launched his own label STX^[4] with Arena, while he continued to release under Code 6 and JB³, as well as headlining events such as Awakenings, Coachella, Nature One, Mayday and Dance Valley. Returning to Tresor in 2004, he released the album Rising Sun. And he has kept up a busy release schedule ever since, with tracks on Womb, Harthouse, Drumcode, MB Electroniks, and Bush. Perhaps his best-selling single of recent times is his remix of Oliver Huntemann's "Shanghai Spinner," which hit the Beatport Top 10 in 2009.^[5] It was also included in Simian Mobile Disco's Essential Mix at the beginning of 2010.^[6]

See also[link]

• Oldskool hardcore
• Techno
• Transmat
• R&S Records
• Tresor

References[link]

External links[link]

• Joey Beltram discography at Discogs.
• Joey Beltram on Myspace.