BENI
Beni, releasing his latest CD through Modular Records, is here touring Japan, going from Tokyo all the way to Nagoya.
After years with Bang Gang and multiple releases on Kitsune compilations, tours with everyone from Soul Wax, to MIA, to Justice etc. Beni is back in new form setting the pace once again.
"I'm a very curious motherfucker." ??
Beni's been that way since the beginning, too, from the formidable years spent watching his father perform to the genre-jumping Avalanches gig that inspired the producer to pick up turntables and sharpen his DJ skills on school days.
?"I was horrible at first," he admits, "trying to put rap, disco and funk together without realizing that a 94 BPM track isn't going to go with a 125 one." ??
The crate digger kept at it, though, tightening his sets until they became fluid blends of decade-spanning dance music. The bricks that built the House of Beni, if you will. On the peak hour side of things, there's the tunnel vision techno of "O.P.U.L.E.N.C.E.," the head rush hooks of "Last Night," and the gear-shifting grooves of "Yeah," a telling look at the film score tendencies that lurk beneath Beni's laser-like loops. Or as he puts it quit...
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