Though trumpeter/composer/producer Ben Neill has been deeply influenced by both the electronic "Fourth World" music of Jon Hassell (who also re-emerged in 2009) and Miles Davis' dark voodoo groove science of the 1970s, the student has taken his findings further than his aesthetic mentors. The difference is in how completely Neill has steeped himself in electronic music -- period. His "mutantrumptet" is named so because it is actually a hybrid between a trumpet, a sampler, and a drum machine;...   [ read more ]

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