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THN096 >> BENFAY - BORN ON A HOUSEBOAT
      [23.07.2007 | DELICIOUS MINIMAL HOUSE GROOVES]

After an absence of far too long,  Benfay makes a welcome 
return to Thinner. His last appearance on the netlabel was in 
January 2005 when he teamed up Irish singer Alice Mackay on 
the  “Lighthouse EP” [THN068] delivering four tracks of vocal 
minimal house.  Now, two and one-half years later, he’s back 
with “Born on a Houseboat”  where the houseboat is a metaphor 
for a “floating community sharing a love for one style of 
music.”  The style here is nearly a half-an-hour’s worth of 
delicious beat-laden grooves and urbane minimal house 
contained in four tracks.  

Concerning the general flavor of the sounds, you’ll find 
traditional stab chords and pads and danceable beats generated 
with an analog drum machine.  In addition, Benjamin says that 
he’s working with the imperfections of “human microgrooves” 
and blending the “digital domain with warm analogue dirt” 
often running sounds from digital virtual instruments through 
a sequence of analog devices.

“Breaching the Escarp” which means “breaking through the 
precipice” (referring to Ben’s hobby of climbing) begins with 
a staccato melody which Benjamin says sounds like a “doggerel.” 
But when the high hat enters and the stab chords and drum 
machine beats come in the groove on this piece takes off and 
there‘s no going back.  The sound of a tire rolling on sand 
initiates “Phlegmatic Face” tinting it with some scratchy 
vinyl warmth.  A melancholic dub ambiance coupled with a 
steady beat and a continuous bass line speckled with watery 
droplets of melody give the piece an overall carefree, 
“rolling through life” mood.  The sad tone of “Phlegmatic 
Face”  is quickly overtaken by the sugary summertime grooves 
of “Nimiety of Energy.”  Wavering pads and a solid high hat 
impart the feeling of a warm summer breeze while simple 
melodies played on miniature Carl Orff instruments bring a 
touch childlike playfulness.  Benjamin’s personal favorite is 
“Quick Drifter” - a slow-moving piece of minimal house loaded 
with stab chords, hot synthesized bass lines, catchy rhythms, 
and clever breaks. 

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:: 4 tracks :: 26min 35sec :: 37.436 MB ::

01: Benfay - Breaching The Escarp
02: Benfay - Phlegmatic Face
03: Benfay - Nimiety Of Energy
04: Benfay - Quick Drifter

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[THINNER.RELEASES]

THN001 VA - "Thinnerism.01"
THN002 deleted*
THN003 Karsten Hammer Hansen - "Elektric.01 EP"
THN004 Curse - "Resolved EP"
THN005 Rktic - "Northern Lights LP"
THN006 Nulleins - "Cyclism EP"
THN007 Benfay - "Carbon EP"
THN008 Dolby - "Dub Expo EP"
THN009 deleted*
THN010 VA - "Thinnerism.02"
THN011 Rktic - "Northern Lights Remixed" 150 Copies CDR!
THN012 Benfay - "Nitron EP"
THN013 Blamstrain - Kavel EP"
THN014 Digitalverein - "Zu Hause²"
THN015 Dolby - "Midnight EP"
THN016 PVO - "Protolith EP"
THN017 Digitalverein - "Zu Hause² Remixes"
THN018 Digitalverein - "Zu Hause² Variationen"
THN019 deleted*
THN020 Nulleins - "Freeway EP"
THN021 Falter - "Taumelflug EP"
THN022 Digitalis - "Sin:Ergy EP"
THN023 Selffish - "Eenas LP"
THN024 Danny Kreutzfeldt - "Re:Core 2CD"
THN025 Pete Larsen - "Berlin Calling EP"
THN026 Benfay - "Bergflanke EP"
THN027 Christian Bloch - "Young American LP"
THN028 Niels Jensen - "77 LP"
THN029 Kazooo - "Palermo Beats EP"
THN030 VA - "Montrealers"
THN031 Marko Fürstenberg - "Option EP"
THN032 deleted*
THN033 Digitalverein - "Internal Course LP"
THN034 Curse - "Wet Springtime Sessions EP"
THN035 Breitbannt - "Back from Exile EP"
THN036 And.Id - "After 5 EP"
THN037 Lufth - "Tendenzen EP"
THN038 krill.minima - "Zwischen Zwei Und Einer Sekunde"
THN039 VA - "Silent Season Dub"
THN040 Surphase & Rktic - "Norddeutsch EP"
THN041 Chronolux - "The Manila Context EP"
THN042 Eloi Brunelle - "Montréal Night Grooves EP"
THN043 Pheek - "Tabisuru Kokoro LP"
THN044 Mateo Murphy - "The Rising EP"
THN045 Dick Richards - "Costa Daurada EP"
THN046 Sectorchestra - "Fault n'Roll EP"
THN047 Marko Fürstenberg - "Gesamtlaufzeit LP"
THN048 Paul Keeley - "Sussex Blue EP"
THN049 Baier/Box - "Boxing/Unboxing EP"
THN050 VA - "I Like To Listen!"
THN051 deluge - "Departure In Affection And New Noise LP"
THN052 Paul Keeley & Dennis DeSantis - "Transatlantic Nightclub EP"
THN053 Holger Flinsch - "The Watcher And The Tower EP"
THN054 Benfay - "One Touch Button Music LP"
THN055 Selffish - "Ena LP"
THN056 Brian Kage - "Eight Ways EP"
THN057 Jason Corder - "Microcosmos LP"
THN058 Mikkel Metal - "Cassini Pieces MLP"
THN059 Theodor Zox - "Pastels 1-4 EP"
THN060 VA - "One Touch Button Remixes"
THN061 Johan Skugge - "Skyddsnisch EP"
THN062 T-Polar - "Tonal Soul EP"
THN063 Jeff Bennett - "Lowdown EP"
THN064 Swat Squad - "Lunática EP"
THN065 Holger Flinsch - "Discovery EP"
THN066 Vladislav Delay - "Demo(n) Cuts EP"
THN067 Digitalverein - "Changes LP"
THN068 Alice Mackay & Benfay - "Lighthouse EP"
THN069 deluge - "The Metapop complex LP"
THN070 VA - "Crossways 3LP"
THN071 Lomov - "Mounting Stags"
THN072 Veer - "Where Nothing Ever Happened"
THN073 Timm Kawohl - "Cascades"
THN074 VA - "Thinnergy"
THN075 Christian Bloch - "New Age"
THN076 Pheek - "Consortium"
THN077 T-Polar - "Red Machine"
THN078 Marko Fürstenberg - "Classics"
THN079 Digitalis - "Zeitraum"
THN080 Bern - "Just Married"
THN081 Sectorchestra - "No Morchestra"
THN082 Thinner & Epsilonlab  - "Silence Is Presence"
THN083 Alta Infidelidad - "Cactus Y Volcanes"
THN084 Nulleins - "Seven Spaces"
THN085 Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - "Eingang Nach Draußen"
THN086 Gate Zero - "Radio overBoard"
THN087 Unit 21 - "September-October"
THN088 Ben Businovski - "Simulacraic Wonderland"
THN089 T-Polar - "Procession"
THN090 Philipp Weigl - "Monsters"
THN091 VA - "Demo Tracks"
THN092 Christian Dittmann - Emporio
THN093 Sensual Physics - The Thin Girl
THN094 Sans Soleil - Boreal
THN095 Laura Palmer - Background
THN096 Benfay - Born On A Houseboat

* for deleted releases check if you can find them in SoulSeek 
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[THINNER]

Sebastian.Redenz..................................[organizing]
Ole.Schulte........................................[marketing]
Neeme.Oja..........................................[webmaster]
Marc.Schütz.........................................[coverart]
Chris.Bethge.......................................[mastering]
John.McCaig........................................[mastering]

[GUESTS]

Alice.Mackay..........................................[THN068]
And.Id................................................[THN036]
Andrey.Kirichenko.....................................[THN011]
Baier/Box.............................................[THN049]
Benfay......................................[too.much.to.list]
Ben.Businovski........................................[THN088]
Bern...........................................[THN074+THN080]
Blamstrain..............................[THN011+THN013+THN070]
Boris.Heizmann........................................[THN070]
Breitbannt............................................[THN035]
Brian.Kage..............................[THN056+THN070+THN073]
C*Rock................................................[THN049]
Christian.Bloch.........................[THN027+THN034+THN075]
Christian.Dittmann.............................[THN083+THN092]
Chronolux......................................[THN039+THN041]
Curse.....................[THN004+THN011+THN024+THN032+THN034]
Daniel.Blomqvist......................................[THN091]
Daniel.Zax............................................[THN070]
Danny.Kreutzfeldt...........................[too.much.to.list]
Das.Kraftfuttermischwerk.......................[THN085+THN091]
Deadbone..............................................[THN075]
deluge....................[THN051+THN064+THN069+THN074+THN082]
Dennis.DeSantis.............................[too.much.to.list]
Dialogue..............................................[THN050]
Dick.Richards.........................................[THN045]
Digitalis..........[THN022+THN024+THN039+THN050+THN070+THN079]
Digitalverein...............................[too.much.to.list]
Eloi.Brunelle.............[THN030+THN042+THN050+THN073+THN082]
Frank.Martiniq........................................[THN049]
Funzion...............................................[THN074]
Gate.Zero......................................[THN070+THN086]
Geoff.White...........................................[THN072]
Ghislain.Poirier......................................[THN030]
Gurtz.................................................[THN074]
Gustavo.Lamas.........................................[THN070]
Hieronymus............................................[THN070]
Holger.Flinsch...................[THN053+THN065+THN070+THN079]
Igor.O.Vlasov.........................................[THN091]
Jacek.Sienkiewicz.....................................[THN072]
James.Ulibarri........................................[THN091]
Jason.Corder..............[THN050+THN057+THN060+THN070+THN082]
Jean.Michel...........................................[THN070]
Jeff.Bennett...................................[THN043+THN063]
Johan.Fotmeijer.......................................[THN050]
Johan.Skugge...................................[THN050+THN061]
Karsten.Hammer.Hansen.................................[THN003]
Kazooo.........................................[THN024+THN029]
Kenneth.Kirschner.....................................[THN070]
Kevin.Krebs...........................................[THN024]
L.O.D.................................................[THN074]
Laura.Palmer..........................................[THN095]
Liquid.Level..........................................[THN091]
Lomov.................................................[THN071]
Lowfour...............................................[THN072]
Lufth.....................[THN037+THN039+THN058+THN060+THN070]
Marko.Fürstenberg...........................[too.much.to.list]
Martin.Jarl....................................[THN050+THN070]
Mateo.Murphy..............[THN030+THN043+THN044+THN060+THN073]
Mikkel.Metal............................[THN058+THN060+THN070]
Mondfabrik............................................[THN070]
Mossa.................................................[THN082]
Niels.Jensen..............[THN024+THN028+THN030+THN060+THN068]
Nulleins................................[THN006+THN020+THN084]
Off.The.Sky....................................[THN039+THN058]
Organon...............................................[THN091]
Pat.Cantin............................................[THN030]
Paul.Keeley........[THN048+THN052+THN056+THN060+THN073+THN082]
Pete.Larsen...........................................[THN025]
Pheek.......................................[too.much.to.list]
Philipp.Weigl.........................................[THN090]
Rasmus.Møbius...........................[THN017+THN024+THN039]
Receptor.......................................[THN083+THN092]
Rktic.....................[THN005+THN018+THN024+THN040+THN091]
Ruben.Andersen........................................[THN075]
Rx....................................................[THN017]
Sans.Soleil...........................................[THN094]
Sean.Byrd.............................................[THN050]
Selffish....[THN010+THN023+THN039+THN050+THN055+THN060+THN070]
Sensual.Physics.........................[THN050+THN071+THN093]
Si-Cut.DB.............................................[THN070]
Sounds.Of.Belovodye...................................[THN091]
Swat.Squad............................................[THN064]
Sub.q.vs.Th0ke........................................[THN010]
Taho...............[THN034+THN039+THN043+THN049+THN056+THN073]
Theodor.Zox....................................[THN058+THN059]
Timm.Kawohl...........................................[THN073]
Tlon...........................................[THN069+THN070]
Transient......................................[THN070+THN085]
T-Polar............[THN050+THN060+THN062+THN076+THN077+THN089]
Tsaikkonen............................................[THN010]
Unit.21...............................................[THN087]
Veer..................................................[THN072]
Vladislav.Delay.......................................[THN066]
Undacova..............................................[THN024]
Xoki..................................................[THN070]
Zen.Savauge...........................................[THN070]

[THINNER HALL OF FAME]

Martin.Juhls.......................................[2002-2006]
Thomas.Jaldemark...................................[1998-2002]
Ronny.Pries...........................................[mentor]
        
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