Okay, after thoroughly scouring the web I am in need of assistance.
Just yesterday I bought a CD from '94 by the artist Radial Blend called
_Abandon Time_ on the Suburbs of Hell label. After listening to it completely,
I was amazed with the CD. It is very reminsiscent of early Black Dog and
Autechre, but still puts a unique twist on things. After looking in the
credits, I saw the person behind the creation is a "D. Benford".
That name sounded very familiar and I realized that this person is also
responsible for the Si-{cut}.db guise. I own the Si-{cut}.db _Nuisance_ CD,
which is also on the SOH label. The CD is a different beast altogether and
leaves me a bit more cold in the way Phoenecia or recent Autechre does at times
-- not a bad thing, just a different feeling. I personally like the Radial
Blend CD a lot more, though, which is honestly one of the strongest releases
I've bought in months.
Anyway, after looking at the inserts from both CDs I noticed that D. Benford
goes under quite a few names: Phoenix Jig, Media form, Radial Blend, Strobe
Flower and Si-{cut}.db. These aliases appear on the SOH and Pan labels. With
so many contributions to SOH, I'm wondering if D. Benford owns the label?
There used to be a SOH page on Hyperreal apparently, but it no longer exists
as far as I can tell. Also can anyone tell me about Pan?
After searching the web, I was only able to come up with the following URLs:
http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/page/benford.html
This page has some soundbites from Media Form.
Also:
http://www.dfuse.com/charts/djsprawl12.htm
which lists a Dec. chart of music from Douglas Benford (now we know what the
"D" stands for). So he's a DJ at Sprawl in England on top of everything. I'm
guessing some of you UK IDMers must be more familiar with Douglas Benford then?
I can't believe there is not a page somewhere dovoted to the works of Douglas
Benford with so many releases out there. I know Sean Cooper posted a glowing
review of _Behind You_ on SOH from Si-{cut}.db awhile ago and he was also in
search of more information about this mystery person.
I'll stop blathering now, but you get the idea... help. Thanks!
E r i c F r a n s
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