Michael Beinhorn

Michael Beinhorn is an American musician and record producer. Beinhorn started his professional career as a musician, playing keyboards in Bill Laswell's Material during the 1980s. He got a chance to work with jazz icon Herbie Hancock, producing Hancock's Future Shock album, which contained the massive hit single "Rockit" (co-written by Beinhorn and a Billboard #1), regarded as one of hip hop's seminal hits. In 1998, Beinhorn received a Grammy Nomination for "Producer Of The Year" for his work on Celebrity Skin by Hole and Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson. Looking for the best way to capture a broad frequency range during the recording process, Beinhorn devised the Ultra Analog Recording format. This process utilizes two inch...