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Benefit Friends
12+ albums
about
Schuyler Stone, AKA Benefit Friends, is a veteran of more traditional “bands,” but has in the last few years dove full on into the burgeoning electronic auteur scene. Of course, electronic music has since its inception often been a very individualistic genre, because of the control that musicians can have over the piece, as well as the ability of technology to replace band members. But it has been only more recently that former hardcore kids have jumped ship from the repetitive and meathead-istic style of music to the more wide open world of Electronica, a nebulous genre is ever there was one. Benefit Friends is a postmodern mish-mash of the heavy rhythms and tempo changes of modern hardcore, affixed to the tropes of danceable, practically club-friendly, traditional electronic music, with some hip hop and a pop sensibility added on to keep things interesting. Oh, and samples taken from David Lynch films and other equally terrifying sources. The mild-mannered Schuyler Stone operates out of Allston, but often returns to his native Connecticut for shows at, in true DIY hardcore tradition, VFW halls and German Clubs. Schuyler’s set-up is centered around a sequencer that allows him to trigger the layered loops that make up his songs live in real time, making his shows feel more like a true performance than many of the navel gazers in the electronic scene that seem to be hiding behind their PowerBooks through their whole set. Not to mention the hand-soldered and modified children’
