Manakin Moon

About Me

This is the trailer to "The Midnight Meat Train" which features a Justin Lassen remix of the Manakin Moon song Blue Hands.MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN Trailer
You can buy the Midnight Meat Train Soundtrack album featuring Manakin Moon from July 22nd 2008 worldwide here
I'm Ben Broughton. Manakin Moon is my solo project.
I'm still finding my sound just trying out different things and learning as I go along. Nothing is set in stone yet and i like having no idea what direction i'm going in next.
Tell me what you like, what you don't like and i will soak it up and see what happens.
I will be playing some live shows later in the year and will keep you posted on this one when i have some more details.
Im also working on an informal project with 'The Good War'. If you haven't heard of this guy before go and check him out too!
If anyone else out there is interested in collaborating on a musical project or remixes of some kind get in touch- im usually up for it.
Also im looking for a film person to collaborate with on some pretty/ugly pictures to accompany some of my music. If you can help me then please get in touch!
Final Fantasy Sound Design by Ben Broughton

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/10/2006
Band Members: Ben Broughton - Vocals, Piano, Synths, Guitars, Drum Programming, Kitchen Sink
Influences: Sigur Ros, Mum, Bjork, Atlisaegu, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, The Good War, Massive Attack, Efterklang, Under Byen, Tidy Kid, Rice Boy Sleeps, Parachutes, Ensemble, Fennesz, Ylid, Ecce, Dead Waiter, Clark, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Beck, Aphex Twin, Jackson and his Computer Band, Ochre, Marilyn Manson, DJ Shadow, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Air, Angelo Badalementi,Nobukazu Takemura, Lullatone, Frakkur, Matmos, Po, Explosions In the Sky, ElectRick, Martin Grech, Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, Portishead, The Prodigy, Rufus Wainwright, Anthony and the Johnsons, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Streets, Tool, Tori Amos, TV on the Radio, U.N.K.L.E, Ulrich Schnauss, The Velvet Underground, Worm is Green, A Perfect Circle, Cat Power, The Cure, David Bowie, The Dandy Warhols, Depeche Mode, Elbow, Gary Numan, Goldfrapp, A Silver Mount Zion, Gorillaz, Interpol, Mercury Rev, Nirvana, Orgy, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Primal Scream, REM,
Fashion Photographer Tamara Rogers

Sounds Like: Sigur Ros, Mum, Bjork, Atlisaegu, Boards of Canada, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, The Good War, Massive Attack, Efterklang, Under Byen, Tidy Kid, Rice Boy Sleeps, Parachutes, Ensemble, Fennesz, Ylid, Ecce, Dead Waiter, Clark, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Beck, Aphex Twin, Jackson and his Computer Band, Ochre, Marilyn Manson, DJ Shadow, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Air, Angelo Badalementi, Nobukazu Takemura, Lullatone, Martin Grech, Frakkur, Matmos, Po, Explosions In The Sky, Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, Portishead, The Prodigy, Rufus Wainwright, Anthony and the Johnsons, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Streets, Tool, Tori Amos, TV on the Radio, U.N.K.L.E, Ulrich Schnauss, The Velvet Underground, Worm is Green, A Perfect Circle, Cat Power, The Cure, David Bowie, The Dandy Warhols, Depeche Mode, Elbow, Gary Numan, Goldfrapp, A Silver Mount Zion, Gorillaz, Interpol, Mercury Rev, Nirvana, Orgy, Outkast, Pink Floyd, Primal Scream, REM,(Depends on what mood i'm in...)
Record Label: Lakeshore Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Midnight Meat Train Soundtrack featuring Manakin Moon

The MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN Soundtrack featuring Manakin Moon is now out on iTunes 01 Strange, Strange Dark Star (Justin Lassen Remix) - Iconcrash 02 Whenever We Come Back (Justin Lassen Rem...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:38:00 GMT

The Midnight Meat Train

A Justin Lassen remix of Manakin Moon's song Blue Hands is featured on the soundtrack to the movie "The Midnight Meat Train" (staring Vinnie Jones and Brooke Shields). It hits U.S cinemas on 1st Augus...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:23:00 GMT

Violet Dolly

Manakin Moon is now previewing a song from the soon to be released debut e.p called "Uphill Applecart". The 2 minute preview you can listen to is from the opening song on the record called "Violet Dol...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:06:00 GMT

radiohead sampled me !!!?

i got the new Radiohead album yesterday called In Rainbows. No suprises - its really good. More of a suprise- they appear to have sampled my song Barcode Babies in their first song - 15 step! Y...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:43:00 GMT

The artist name my magic noise now lives in is MANAKIN MOON.The change is mainly because i am getting really bored of receiving spam from death metal bands who see the word 'fury' and completely get t...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:45:00 GMT

music video

Video maker wanted! Yes - I am looking to get some visuals to accompany my music. If anyone out there has some suggestions please get in touch because I am very interested but don't have the tim...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:12:00 GMT

I.D.M

I.D.M - i have seen this term thrown round a lot recently and until 2 days ago i had no idea what genre of music it was referring to, but now i know- its 'intelligent dance music' appa...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:24:00 GMT

what im listeing to mostly

i've been listening to a lot of 'Jackson and his Computer Band' recently. The album is called 'smash' and the song 'utopia' is on an o2 advert. Really really cool, i think that guy was dropped on...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:15:00 GMT

my songs

ok so im being really slow getting my songs put on this site but they r getting there! they should be up by end of january 2007... im not lazy just self critical and vain. Forgive me.
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:01:00 GMT