Joey Beltram

Joey Beltram (born November 6, 1971) is an American DJ and record producer, best-known for the pioneering house music recordings Energy Flash and Mentasm.
Mentasm, coproduced 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. It was pre-empted to an extent by Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva in their Cybersonik project; although Hawtin, in response, made sure to answer Beltram's seminal Energy Flash (1990) in return with Substance Abuse (1991). Beltram and the "mentasm riff" are strongly associated with Drum & Bass, the Belgian techno scene, and the R&S record label, as well as hardcore/hard house in their various permutations since 1991.

Album discography
Mixmag Live!, Vol. 6, 1992
Aonox, 1994
Places, 1995
Close Grind, 1996
"Beltram Classics", 1996
Live Mix, March 25, 1997
The Sound of 2 AM , June 1, 1999
Form and Control, 2002
The Rising Sun, May 31, 2005
"Live @ Womb", Feb 1, 2005
Joey Beltram, TRAX Classics, March 8, 2005

 

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