Howard Simon Bernstein[1] (born 18 April 1963,[2] Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish musician, producer and DJ who has worked with artists including Björk, U2, Tricky, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soul II Soul, Robbie Robertson, Elisa, Mukul Deora, Marlene Kuntz and the Gift.

Born into a Jewish family amidst the Catholic-Protestant sectarianism of Glasgow,[3] Bernstein attended socialist Jewish youth clubs in the city while finding a musical education in John Peel's radio shows, recording tracks from the show on a two-track tape recorder and making rudimentary mixes from them.

[4] Later, he spent a year in Israel working on a kibbutz as part of Jewish cultural youth movement Habonim[5] before living for a period in the United States.

The bands he liked the most at the time were "Siouxsie and the Banshees - of which I was a big fan - but also Santana, John McLaughlin, Sly & Robbie, a lot of reggae, and Brian Eno".

[18] In 2021, Italian duo Pinhdar released the album Parallel, produced by Howie B and including his significant musical contributions.

He told ondarock that “this is one of the records I’m most proud of.”[19] He has been releasing music under his own name since the early 1990s, as well as under other various monikers and as part of groups including ambient/electronica Skylab.

He has produced, co-produced, composed and written a number of scores and soundtracks for full-length feature and short films alike, including The End of Violence with Ry Cooder, Dollhouse, How To Sell A Banksy, Double Xposure, Lost in Thailand, Brick, Dr. Chan Cheng, Made in China and Rabbit.

[24] His TV work includes creating music for BBC One's Imagine documentary on The Royal Ballet's principal guest artist Carlos Acosta, for a Dazed & Confused short film project Stop for a Minute[25] and for a Dazed series on Channel 4.

[26] His work for advertising campaigns includes creating music for Maserati,[27] Hyundai,[28] Range Rover, Hugo Boss and BUPA.

[29] He also collaborated with Argentine theatre group De La Guarda on an album produced by one of their members, Gaby Kerpel, who he also mentored.

Howie's upcoming composition work can be seen in the new documentary 'Kiss The Future' which tells a story of defiance amid the 1990s's siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.