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Benza

About Me

Benza has been making groundbreaking electronic music since 1997. His background in Jazz, Funk, R&B and Rock music have enabled him a unique sound, maintaining critical elements of melody and form, while providing ultra-butt-shaking grooves. His debut self-titled album, released on Demon Tea Recordings in 2003, was met with worldwide critical acclaim, touted as "proper psychedelia with everything you ever needed to fly." (DJ Times Magazine)The first album, coupled with explosive live sets seen through Europe, Japan, the US South America and Russia have truly established Benza on the world's electronic scene. His second album, Retrofuturism (Sonic Dragon Records), drew on the strengths of the first and pushed new sonic horizons. A renewed focus on groove and structure allowed this record the space to explore the depth and width inherent in his production, whilst keeping time for the ebbs and flows that ensured dance-floor appreciation all over the world.Further touring and enhanced studio time has seen a shift of focus towards the phatter and the phunkier. Benza's sound has morphed again. A psychedelic embrace of the new waves of Electro and Tech-House pervade a deep and wide groove in an organic and musical dance floor sound."Schwarze Now, The Defender" - Benza's long awaited 3rd album is on shelves now and is being widely viewed as a very significant work in electronica."An early contender for album of the year... The quality and vision on this album are incredible... 10/10" (psyreviews.com)

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Member Since: 15/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.benzaonline.com
Band Members: Ben Rynderman
Influences: Keith Jarrett, The Mars Volta, Jimi Hendrix, Tiefschwartz, Kaiser Soze, Steve Reich, Chris Lake, Stevie Wonder, Troy Schwarze, Tool, Bjork, John Coltrane, Tyler Durden, Brett Canning.
Sounds Like: A nun, a buddhist and a rabbi walking into a bar while the mythical lost recordings of Sean Connery narrating Prokefiev's "Peter and the Wolf" plays backwards through an amplified coconut jukebox in the men's room.

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Record Label: Sonic Dragon Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Schwarze Now, The Defender: The Exclusive Liner Notes (Part 1)

Benza: Schwarze Now, The Defender Sonic Dragon Records 2007 SDREC-06     Before we get into an analysis of this album on a track-by-track basis, I want say a couple of things.   Firs...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:57:00 GMT

Blog. Blogger. Blogged.

Hi. I've not written here before, but I think I'll start. I think this place offers a unique opportunity. Nowhere in my albeit limited internet experience has there been a space where the pen is situa...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:16:00 GMT