Justin Bennett - Demolitions

You may not have heard of Justin Bennett, but his story might sound familiar. Started out in an industrial band in Sheffield UK, then left to pursue very abstract tape music, finally producing brilliantly evocative albums of pure field recordings. You were thinking of Chris Watson, yes? Well, Bennett came up in the same milieu. His band Hula recorded its first albums at Cabaret Voltaire's Western Works studio. Like Watson's move to The Hafler Trio, Bennett left Hula to live in the Netherlands are perform with the incredible group BMB Con. Unlike Watson's later dedication to natural sounds and animals, Bennett's field recordings tend to be of urban environments. "Demolitions" was one of his first solo albums, self-released on Spore Records as a CD in an edition of 400 copies.

Justin Bennett - Demolitions