BEFORE YOU READ ANYTHING ELSE, READ THIS:
What is a producer? What the hell is a DJ? Who knows....everything is decided by connotation. Whether I make original beats, bite beats and samples to mix, I always do something in my own artistic form. My musical goal is simply one thing: to crush connotation in hip-hop music with a sledgehammer. I have many local influences such as Edan, Insight, and the Perceptionists, and I have other influnces such as Jurassic 5 who have all tried to push hip hop's boundries in some way...and got away with it. There are people in hip hop who get slept on like benadryl that aren't defined as "hip hop" by most closed minded people that still are able to get away with their art...whether they are white and from the suburbs like me, or anyone in the middle of the country, my point is that shouldn't matter. Someone out there can still be unique and not be stereotyped as something.

Anyway, forget all of that. My name is Ben A, but you can also call me DJ Benny for all I care. I've been producing and remixing since the summer of 2003, and ocasionally been practicing with turntables since June of 2004. I'm learning piano now for all musical ventures (I also started that in summer of '04), but in hip hop specifically, a hip hop producer that knows some sort of music theory is a DEADLY WEAPON. Please believe it when I say that...look at people like DJ Shadow and RJD2...you dont see them making 3 second loops with MIDI keyboards do you? Anyway, I've been producing and remixing stuff on Acid Pro and Fruityloops 4, and they are some of the most underrated programs out there. People think Acid Pro and FL studio are really ameteur stuff, but you can do the craziest stuff with it if you know what you're doing. I also recently purchased an MPC2000XL (a drum machine, sampler,sequencer - best of the best) , and it is one of the greatest musical purchases I've ever made, despite the cost of it.

I have a remix album out now that I released in the fall of '03 (nov. 4th to be exact). It was made at a time when I was just starting out on Acid Pro and thought I was the best ever at remixing. I was also heavily influenced by the Neptunes/N.E.R.D production at that time, despite the fact if the songs they did carried any real meaning....I still like most of their production to this day, though, regardless. Despite the half and half balance between remixing outdated mainstream music and some decent underground hip hop, some things on there like a remix of Coldplay's "Clocks" made it to #1 on the soundclick alternative charts in November of 03, the month the CD was released. I was also in the top 25 unsigned artists for about a week or two of that month. It did not sell well because it was very hard to advertise to my audience, especially with it being just a remix album and not solo material, and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. However, if you want to buy it anyway, e-mail me and I can send you a track or two off of it that you want to hear since had soundclick caught me twice for posting them myself. I can give you further payment instructions later if you do want to make a purchase. Here is the tracklist of my first remix album "Your eardrums aren't ready no more: The Remixes Vol. 1."

1. Intro
2. Panjabi MC - Jogi
3. Kelis - Milkshake
4. Busta Rhymes & Pharrell - Light Your @$$ on Fire
5. Neptunes, Roscoe P. Goldchain, Clipse, & Boo-Bonic - Hot
6. Snoop Dogg - It Blows My Mind
7. N.E.R.D (The Neptunes) - Things Are Getting Better
8. JS16 - Stomp To My Beat
9. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
10. Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boys - Get Low
11. Afroman - Because I got High
12. Illegal Substance - Step To The Floor
13. Beastie Boys - Paul Revere
14. Jin & Postaboy 106 & Park Interlude
15. Jay Z feat. Eminem - Renegade
16. Missy Elliot feat. Ludacris - Gossip Folks
17. Jurassic 5 - LAUSD
18. K-Os - Heaven Only Knows
19. Daler Mhendi - Tunak Tunak Tun
20. Linkin Park - My December
21. Coldplay - Clocks
All songs copyright their respective artists and labels.

Ordering instructions: Email me at djbenny@rcn.com for further instructions. The price is $5, and if you do not go to my high school (Newton North), the album is an additional $2.50 for shipping.

Oh yeah, if you want to hear a song that isn't on here, let me know and I'll try to post it up for a day or two so you can hear it.