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Tin Soldier

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Tin Soldier is the main recording project of Bristol-based producer Ben Banyard, who has been knocking together top notch beats and other sonic oddments for the past couple of years.

Much of the Tin Soldier output features Bristol-based rapper/producer Truck, who was formerly with Beat Root 38 and who now produces and rhymes with Race The Bus, which in itself is an exciting project in the making.

In August 2007 Ben decided to launch hip hop netlabel RANDOM FLOW which will be used to release Tin Soldier and Phreniq albums (as well as other like-minded artists) entirely for FREE!

The debut Tin Soldier album, DIGITAL DECISIONS was released in November 2007 and is available to download free of charge HERE

Ben also somehow finds time to record under the pseudonym of Phreniq - check out the myspace page , which includes some more top-notch hip-hop shenanigans.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/11/2006
Band Website: http://www.archive.org/details/rfl001
Band Members: Ben Banyard - production/arrangement/big fat nasty beats/offbeat bassbin trickery.
Truck - plenty of cracking rhymes.
Tin Soldier SupaComputa - occasional vocals.
Influences: De La Soul
Roots Manuva
Portishead
Massive Attack
Beck
The Beta Band
Jackie Mittoo
King Tubby
UNKLE
Jurassic 5
Sounds Like: A fat drunken cocktail of beats, rhymes and saveloys....except perhaps not the saveloys.
Record Label: Random Flow
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

10K downloads for Digital Decisions - get it FREE!

Well, with almost zero publicity and a budget of literally nothing, Digital Decisions, the debut Tin Soldier album, has now reached the giddy heights of 10,000 downloads!It's still available for FREE ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:14:00 GMT

DIGITAL DECISIONS - debut Tin Soldier album...RELEASED!

Well - it's finally here! It's taken three years of plugging away and tweaking but the debut Tin Soldier album, Digital Decisions, is finally available for the world to hear! And what's more, it's com...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:25:00 GMT

Bristol Uncovered/BBC Radio Bristol & Random Flow netlabel launch!

Two new important pieces of news: 1) I've just done an interview with BBC Radio Bristol's "Bristol Uncovered" which will be broadcast on the weekend of 24th/25th August on 95.5fm or 94.9fm between 1am...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:21:00 GMT

"Elevator Music" on BCFM 93.2fm!

I'm proud to report that "Elevator Music" was aired on the Radio Mish Mash show last night (Bristol Community Radio - 93.2fm 10pm-11pm Thursdays, fact fans - http://www.bcfm.org.uk)!Not only that, I'l...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:03:00 GMT

FREE! Tin Soldier/Phreniq Podcast - NOW ON I-TUNES!!!

Hi folks,Well, I've finally gotten around to putting together a podcast - it's a 7-track 27-minute mixtape featuring both Tin Soldier and Phreniq tunes. You can download it/subscribe on iTunes - HEREA...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:15:00 GMT

So What aired on WRVU radio in Nashville

Tin Soldier has gatecrashed the home of country music in the USA with a nice slab of airplay on WRVU's Mixdown show - 91.1FM. Check out the playlist/Real Audio archive of the show: http://www.vanderbi...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:12:00 GMT