James Bernard has a long and critically well received career in music, he works for Propellerhead Software (makers of Reason) as in-house artist relations and all round Reason expert, he is the goto person for a lot of the artist’s when they get stuck, even at 2am. Just ask A Guy Called Gerald or DJ Pierre. He creates Re-Fills for Reason under his own name, and music for them to showcase what is possible with the software, as he travels around the world performing, giving demos and training seminars on Propellerhead products.

James has released many records since 1993. As Influx on Sapho records, a sister label of the well respected UK label Rising High. His first ambient album, Atmospherics was released in 1994 on Rising High. He also releases on Isophlux Records (as Influx and Protocol), Analog Records (as Influx), BML Records (as Influx) and many others..See Discogs.com

James spent many years as the face of Korg, doing demos for the Electribe series and also as part of the Korg Sound Design team, where he created sounds and patterns for many of their synths including… EA-1/ER-1/ES-1/EMX1, MS2000, microKorg, The Legacy Collection and many others. 

In 1997 he teamed up with DJ Ed Weingarten (aka Displacer) and formed the breakbeat act Expansion Union, releasing music on Wax Trax!/TVT records. The song “Playing with Lightning” from the album “World Wide Funk” was featured in the hit moive “Blade” and used on the gold selling soundtrack CD for the film.

These days when James is not being daddy to his three beautiful girls, he still composes music and also works for Propellerhead Software (makers of Reason, www.propellerheads.se) as the Artist Relations person, creates sounds and music for them and also travels around the world doing gigs, demos and training seminars on Propellerhead products. 

Musical Influences….more than I can list…. but here are ones that have always influenced me. Brian Eno, Philip Glass, David Bowie, Chopin, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, Plaid, The Black Dog, Bochum Welt, everything released on the Wax Trax! label, This Mortal Coil and electronic music from the 80′s. Some more recent ones… Herbert, Murcof, Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert.