Colin Harman

An artist I’ve come to enjoy recently is Saturday Index. The actual method of how I stumbled across them leaves me at the moment, but I apologize for not sharing them sooner. A melancholy and nature inspired EP from Saturday Index reflects the cooler imagery of early morning skies above tearful trees. Partly Cloudy follows a mellow wavelength capable of inducing deep thought and reasoning. Artist Jedidiah Becker from Denver, Colorado, mirrors the natural sky with crystalline melodies whose fronts progress and converge with one another.

The most exquisite part of this musical glory is the fact that it is not only excellent, but is freely available for download from the artist here. It makes my heart so happy that there are still artists out there who make music for the sake of making music and not just because “there is money to be made if we meet the right people, play the right gigs, and spend an hour in the morning doing our hair so it looks like we just rolled out of bed.”

In addition to the four tracks offered by Saturday Index are three reinterpreted title tracks by Sarin Sunday, Paramnesic, and Milieu.

I’ve included for you a couple samples below, but be sure to get the free EP from the download if you like what you hear.

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Saturday Index – Partly Cloudy

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Saturday Index – Satin Window

Any of you reading this who know me know very well that I love music. The sad part is that I can’t really play music very well, if at all. I can dabble on a keyboard, pretend to play guitar (with the 5 chords I know) or give my best regards to beat boxing. However, I love hunting around for new electronic bands and artists to be the soundtrack to my life and work environment. On that note, I’ve really been digging Ben Benjamin recently. A lot. A whole lot.

Ben Benjamin, whose real name is Ben Mullins, is the solo work of his other musical endeavor “PostPrior Project”. He is currently recording under the label of Ghostly International with the likes of other stellar artists like Tycho, Kiln, Mobius Band, and a plethora of others that you should also fall in love with.

When it comes to Ben Benjamin, I love the simple but intricate parts of his music. So much of “produced music” now-a-days is a few loop tracks layered with a beat underneath it with someone who’s got “a buddy in the biz” using the Smule’s T-Pain app to mask their sorry excuse for vocals and calling themselves an artist. Boring, easy, over it.

I appreciate that the more you listen to Ben’s music the more detail you’re able to pick out of the layers of instrumentation he has in each track. Below you’ll find my favorite track off his album “The Many Moods of Ben Benjamin Vol. 1″, and I am sure you too will appreciate the simple to intricate build that takes place over the 2:48 length of the track. Enjoy and check him out for yourself on iTunes, Amazon, or here.

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