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About Me

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Music-related somethings about me:
Based in Brentford, West London, Douglas Benford has been releasing his digital music under the alias SI-CUT.DB since 1991. As well as the SI-CUT.DB moniker, with seven albums released under this guise, Benford has also recorded as Radial Blend, Pantunes Music, Phoenix Jig and Media Form. Benford has collaborated with Scanner, Tonne, Rechenzentrum, St Etienne, Andrew Weatherall, Add N to x's Ann Shenton, Iris Garrelfs, Stephan Mathieu, Granny'Ark, Rod Thomas and Benge [as Tennis]. Ranging from microsound and electronica to dub, Benford has released music on Realjoker, Fällt, Warp, Mutek Rec, 12x50, Bip Hop, BackGround, Highpoint Lowlife, Spa.rk, Suburbs of Hell, Sprawl, Ministry of Sound, Loaf, Expanding, Pantunes Music and 12K. He is also co-founder and curator of Sprawl events (& label) in London for over 12 years, see http://www.sprawl.org.uk , and has performed at Mutek, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Synch, Sintesi, New Forms and at other venues internationally.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/16/2005
Band Website: http://www.douglasbenford.co.uk
Band Members: Douglas John Benford
Influences:

Art, Love and Science. And: agf, mitchell akiyama, am/pm, oren ambarchi, paul auster, j g ballard, basic channel, benge, steve beresford, bjork, the bohman brothers, frank bretschneider, richard chartier, kit clayton, douglas coupland, vladislav delay, taylor deupree, brian eno, thomas fehlmann, fennesz, burnt friedmann, iris garrelfs, granny'ark, alfred hitchcock, jan jelenik, franz kafka, kraftwerk, leafcutter john, billy mackenzie, mapstation, stephan mathieu, kaffe matthews, mileece, minit, motion, murcof, new scientist, octex, ost, rosy parlane, john peel, pimmon, pole, portable, christopher priest, radian, christopher rainbow, rechenzentrum, rem, resonance fm, rhythm & sound, sebastien roux, st etienne, scanner, janek schaefer, bryan singer, snd, sogar, sparks, art spiegelman, stereolab, sushi, sutekh, tennis, thai food, tigrics, twerk, michael winterbottom, andrei tarkovsky, francois truffaut, lars von trier, chris ware
Sounds Like: All the above.
Record Label: Bip_Hop, HighpointLowlife, Fallt, 12x50 etc
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

fragments

My piano-based music set-up at Cafe Oto, from late last year.* The [60] Project CD album was recently released on the Canadian DIGTALes label. Compiled by Matt Atkins, the album was constructed out ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:52:00 GMT

album +

* There is a new Douglas Benford CD album'In The Footsteps Of The Princess'on http://12x50.com/ [Carbon series], out now.[analog mastering by Stephan Mathieu].press release HERE.upcoming performances*...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:49:00 GMT

Outsides and insides

Some images from the Laban centre, where I performed last week with Janek Schaefer, Alex Wendt and Jasper Leyland. A nice review of the evening is just HERE.
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:23:00 GMT

here is some new(s)

photo by Iris Garrelfs* Furthernoise webzine and net label released a free download compilation recently, 'Explorations in Sound Vol 3 - Music of Sound' with a live track from 2007's Interplay by myse...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:21:00 GMT

weekend ephemera

* My Twitter updates now feed onto my Facebook page. So there. What a world we live in.* On obscure releases, from a 2001, the si-cut.db 12" 'Public EP' is just available on itunes next to the si-cut....
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 07:36:00 GMT

being brief

* This must be my briefest recent blog. Just to say this i am going to see Antonelli Electr tonight, the preview i did of it is HERE.current listening* Chris Watson & BJ Nilson - Storm (Touch, CD)* Si...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:44:00 GMT

new release, and some more

* ’Makeshift’, an unreleased exclusive si-cut.db track from the ’From Tears: Beach Archive’ session vaults, is now available for free on Chile’s Epa_sonidos net label, o...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:54:00 GMT

Trumpets, some listening, and classic Ray Kurzweil

* I recently finished a short collaborative track with Italian trumpet player Georgio Li Calzi, and you can now hear it on my myspace player. The title is ’Homo Zentropicus’ - a tribute to...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:02:00 GMT

some pop music on Itunes

* Its very unusual for me to get involved with pop music nowadays, but I was commissioned to work with Rod Thomas - a talented and very hard working young songsmith - to create some works, for perform...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:05:00 GMT

some trash - and what to do with it

* I’ve updated the sonicecycler page now, a fab line up; more things coming to this page and it’s blogsome music on dvd/tv I’ve been listening to and watching. The Scott Walker is th...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:38:00 GMT