From Eric Frans Sent Sat, Mar 21st 1998, 21:11
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 xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx [subvox music] http://www.azstarnet.com/~subvox [cellular] http://ns1.internetconnect.net/~kdkates/epf