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ben parsons

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About Me

at worst, he’s a complete ass, at best he’s bludgeoning his creativity in to submission in the form of 2 to 20 minute audio sculptures.CLICK HERE FOR BEN PARSONS’ BLOG!

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Member Since: 9/26/2005
Band Members: I-5, my bikes (the Viaduct, Clint Eastwood, and Nacho), zombie movies.
Influences: Bob Marley, mewithoutYou , Smashing Pumpkins, Amon Tobin, Zeppelin, India, Circle Square, the blues, Chevelle, Sigur Ros, Beck, Stavesacre /Mark Solomon, mercir ,the Dust Brothers, AC/DC, Yorkband, the White Stripes, Johnny Cash, the Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, the Streets, Rage Against the Machine, the Police, Ninja Tune... Oh, and of course, corporate Americaalso, my pal DJ Dread. (yeah, that's him)He has a punkrawk gourmet cooking site called DIY gourmet that you NEED to check out by clicking RIGHT HERE
Sounds Like: abandonment, paradox, anxiety, hope and a fire. space, geometry, synthetics, and velcro. ==triphop, sci-fi, funk, and filmscore, with a chaser of depression.== too slow to dance, to fast to sleep.also- this.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

VAIN magazine

The editors of Vain, a new art zine featuring west coast artists, asked me to produce a track for the beautiful first edition of their mag. I GOT MINE IN THE MAIL TODAY, AND IT IS UNREAL. I LOVE THE...
Posted by ben parsons on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:02:00 PST

the alley remix

so- aaron mason, who you can find on my "top friends", produced a chilling minimalist remix of my track "the alley". i dig it, seriously. and i think this makes me open to having some others remix m...
Posted by ben parsons on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:01:00 PST

this orange remix

In January, UK band This Morning Call (see my "top friends") asked me if i'd like to produce a remix for them. This is pretty great since I had no idea who they were. I had a listen to their tracks,...
Posted by ben parsons on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:26:00 PST

it's cool

thru the podsafe network i have now been played on two different podcasts. one in Hebrew out of Israel, and one in Spanish out of who knows where... it's cool. you know what that means? i'm huge i...
Posted by ben parsons on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:50:00 PST

ben parsons has been featured on

"well made music" has featured my track "teach me" on "podcast number six". http://www.wellmademusic.co.uk/ click on "pod" to hear the podcast. my track is the fourth of five.(check out the host's ...
Posted by ben parsons on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:36:00 PST