Well, Ben is only me! but the Pest boys are never far away..
Influences
in no particular order and to name but a very few indeed.. Sly Stone, Johnny Guitar Watson, Kraftwerk, Tipper, Duke Ellington, System of a Down, Hermeto Pascoal, Beach Boys, Pantera, Paul Johnson, Sun Ra, ESG, Ian Dury, Joni Mitchell, Cristian Vogel, Steely Dan, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Michael Forshaw, Eric Dolphy, Roland Kirk, Oscar Peterson, James Brown, Outkast, ACDC, Luke Vibert, Tim Exile, Jiri Ceiver, Kool Keith, Tribe Called Quest, Prince, Si Begg, Aphex Twin, Frank Zappa, Bella Bartok, Edgard Varese, Soft Machine, Daze Maxim
Sounds Like
Shiny wrong things, galvanized gristle, freshly shaved robots hitting tuning forks, a plasma-based god wiping its arse, floppy disk overtures, gargling acid rain and the Giraffe Auxiliary Tracheotomy Ensemble (G.A.T.E.)
BONUSROUND 04: BEN PEST - GLITTERATI FASHOINISTA is OUT NOW!!
Its always been about music, as a nipper I tried various instruments but landed on the Keyboard. My interest in electronic music production began at school, which must have been one of the only at the time (circa 1989) to have an Atari running Cubase in their music dept. Wasn't much cop at sports so you can guess where I spent my lunchtimes! I eventually went on to study a Music Production in Newcastle, and have since worked variously as a sound engineer and as a music teacher fo money.
I've been rocking my Korg Electribe-based live techno show around, including a slammin' set at this years Glade festival ... Dj-ed variously, and gigged with my band Pest for the last 6 years and completed a handful of UK / Europian tours in both capacities.
Keyboard player and long-time collaborator with Pest (Ninja Tune) we are currently in development of their 3rd album, my other collaborative arm is Black 'E' - a truly LIVE 'techno' project with Cristian Vogel, we have released on both Sleep Debt and Seed Records, and established notoriety as exponents of jacking noise in the few shows we have done together....
and here is an ALL NEW NINTENDO DS SET PERFORMED ON ILL FM: http://www.dirtyspinach.com/ill
