Ben Benjamin
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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