Ben Nevile
Open Land
Ben Nevile (b. 1975, Canada)
Open Land, 2020
EP / 22:00 / stereo
12’’ / Digital
Release Date: June, 2020
P&C Logistic Records, 2020
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Open Land
2020
Ben Nevile is our longtime favourite Canadian artist/sound engineer, previously based in Vancouver but now making his home in the creative hotbed of Montréal. His music is colourful with generous, thick groove and melody evolving from minimal house music to dub techno. Ben’s appearances are truly rare whether for productions or concerts. Indeed it’s been almost 20 years since Ben first produced music for Telegraph. With Open Land Ben delivers an outstanding record showing the 3 dimension of his skills. The A side Politics is a true hit! A sweet rave track capable of exploding any dancefloor – combining strength, elegance and melancholy. The B1, I Don’t Feel That Way, hypnotically thumps with an arrangement that will feed it perfectly into everyone’s DJ sets this summer. The eponymous B2 track, a tribute, is fully restrained with deep atmosphere. Both B tracks are perfect dj tools to give the dancefloor the right energy and mood. Here is a timeless record. Do not miss.
About the artist
Ben Nevile
Born in 1975, Canada
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada
Ben is a guy from Canada. He's a music person, positioning himself daily to receive the hazy, magic moments that we're all chasing every time we go to a show. Ben is technical, the most technical maybe. He contributed to the signal processing algorithms that run in zillions of DAWs. But despite these digital chops, or maybe because of them, his studio process is intentionally fuzzy. A handful of synths and samplers. Instruments that you play with your fingers. Microphones. Tape. Records. Ben is friends with other music people you may have heard of, friends from Canada, friends from America, friends from Paris and Berlin and all the other places. Making and listening to music is about other people, maybe soon to be friends, moments where we experience the same air pushing around us. The process of discovering and designing and sharing sounds. The wordless communication between players in a band, athletes in a game, dancers in a dark room. Good techno stops time.