Ben Pest

PANIC BRIDGE 02 IS OUT NOW . FINALLY!!!

After a truly epic journey of nearly 4 years involving bust distributors and lost metalwork Panic Bridge 02 has finally dropped BIG UP VETO!! get your copy at www.veto.co.uk



Its always been about music, as a nipper I tried various instruments but landed on the Keyboard. My interest in electronic music production began at school, which must have been one of the only at the time (circa 1989) to have an Atari running Cubase in their music dept. Wasn't much cop at sports so you can guess where I spent my lunchtimes! I eventually went on to study a Music Production in Newcastle, and have since worked variously as a sound engineer and as a music teacher fo money.



Keyboard player and long-time collaborator with Pest (Ninja Tune) we are currently in development of their 3rd album, another sometime collaboration is Black 'E' - a live 'techno' project with Cristian Vogel, we have released on both Sleep Debt and Seed Records, and established notoriety as exponents of jacking noise in the few shows we have done together



I've been rocking my hardware -based live "wonky techno" show all over including a rather slamming set at this years BLOC weekender . Dj-ed variously, and gigged with my band Pest for the last umpteen years and completed a handful of UK / Europian tours in both capacities.



Kurrent Kit List for my Live shows:

Korg ESX1

Yamaha DX200

Nord Rack

Nintendo DS (x2)