Career
Brown produces and plays a variety of genres commonly called rave. Although he is most associated with bouncy techno, his music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to gabber. He was heavily involved in the evolution of the United Kingdom"s hardcore techno scene from the early 1990s, in particular introducing the harder-edged sounds of Belgian and Dutch techno to the United Kingdom, and taking the Scottish sounds to Europe.
He DJs at rave events in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and locations worldwide.
A more detailed background of Brown"s music style is given at bouncy techno. Bonkers His work is featured on Bonkers, to date the best-selling series of hardcore compilations.
His most significant tracks are "Definition of a Bad Boy", "Synthetic Dreams", "Like An Angel" (Q-Tex), "Just Walk Away", "Rock Rock On", "Technophobia", "Fly With You", "Now Is The Time", "Elysium", "Neckbreaker", "Boomstick", "Fuzzy Muff", "Turn Up The Music", "Roll The Track" and "Taking Drugs?". Dancemania Brown has also appeared on the mega-hit compilation albums of Dancemania"s Speed series.
His first appearance on the series was on the third issue of the series in 1999.
Other In May 2006 his song Go Berzerk was exclusively included in the PlayStation 2 release of beatmania IIDX11 – IIDX RED, which was not present on the arcade version or audio releases of the game. In 2008, Brown released a new song, album and Digital Video Disc called Livewired. In 2009, Brown"s song "Commence" was featured on an episode of Top Gear, where Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond replace James May"s classical Civil Defense with a playlist of hardcore techno then superglued the dials and buttons on the stereo.
(Series 13, Episode 2) In 2011 Brown released his landmark 100th release on his label Evolution Records.