A bloke, his voice and some effect pedals. A street musician in one of it’s purest forms. Dub FX just feels good.
I’ve only recently discovered Benjamin Stanford’s work via word of mouth and YouTube and have already found everything I could by this man - bootlegs and official material. It just that good. Really.
I’ve found that the melodies are fantastic, the beats raw and invigorating, the innovation relentless… though I’m not really describing the album titled ‘Everythinks a Ripple’ but the live material found on video all over YouTube (see below). This is a case where the ‘real’ is far superior to the posed, produced, polished and manicured. It’s Benjamin’s performance that seals the deal. I would NEVER throw my copy of ‘Everythink…’ in the trash but I certainly would prefer a quality recording of streetside emotion and honesty over a refined-by-q-tips take any day, any hour, any way… at least for now.
Enjoy the tracks below. Please watch each at least once through to the end. If you don’t choke up while watching any of these videos you have ventured too far from the wall and your emotional self has become unplugged.
Woot! Amon Tobin has released a live recording of The Foley Room - Live in Brussels clocking in at over an hour and fifteen minutes. Those unfamiliar now have a legal, free download that is a worthy listen of his work. Being live, the download is of very high quality w/ many new textures and a sound that actually feels ‘live’, something uncommon w/ electronic music. Things get really fanfuckinfab around the ten minute mark.
From the site:
““F*** visuals we’re sinking every last penny into the sound system!” - Amon Tobin
Back in early 2007 Amon Tobin released his latest full length album titled Foley Room and put together a tour focusing on the sound and the music, rather then thinking too much about lights, projections and stage antics. After all, this is music.
It’s about the sound and the shared experience of being immersed in waves of bass while dissonant collections of rhythm and melody move, confuse, annoy you a bit then move you again. a passionate affair this recording is an attempt to capture not just the music but the atmosphere of the show as a whole.
The long awaited, full-length, official recording of the legendary 2007 Foley Room tour is finally available at www.amontobin.com ! Recorded by Studio Brussels at the world famous AB theatre in Belgium - which arguably has the best sound system in Europe. After months of back and forth and despite everyone’s best efforts the mix was in danger of being edited into the ground to accommodate big labels and publishers. Rather than release a compromised version commercially, the decision was made to give it away for free instead.”
Yeah, they are ‘broken up’ but still, they are fucking fantastic.What better way to re-brand TWX than with a really, really high quality taste of Funkstorung playing live? This file comes from the reliable site known as Live PA and is 20 minutes of broken hip-hop at it’s finest. It’s a shame that this show wasn’t longer than it is.
On a related note, Chris De Luca of said group has since joined in w/ Phon.o aka Carsten Aermes and are soon to realease an album together. I have heard snippets of the album and I must say, I am extremely eager to hear more of what what these two can do with booty-bumpin electronics
honestly fucking fantastic: dub fx
