Skye Ashbrook and John Gomi have been creating music and art under the name Beat Imprint for over 20 years. They have explored dance music and experimental music with equal intensity, combining styles and eschewing genres. They work with beats, bass, and space with influences ranging from Kraftwerk to John Coltrane by way of My Bloody Valentine meets DJ Screw. Beat Imprint owes as much to hip hop as to drone, creating cinematic musical experiences that make you think as well as make you dance. Their self-titled 12” vinyl e.p. is currently in production for release early Spring 2016.

Beat Imprint perform with traditional instrumentation and modern electronics. Their shows include original songs and video as
well as improvisational elements that have never existed outside of that performance. Beat Imprint fully embrace sound and image to create new immersive experiences.

Beat Imprint’s mission statement has always been stated best in the following excerpt from Bill Evans’ “Improvisations in Jazz.”

“There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous.
He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black
water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy
the line or break through the parchment.

Erasures or changes are impossible. These artists must practice a particular
discipline, that of allowing the idea to express itself in communication with
their hands in such direct way that deliberation cannot interfere.

The resulting pictures lack the complex composition and textures of
ordinary painting, but it is said that those who see will find something
captured that escapes explanation.”