I’m not sure you’ve been soaking your musical brain–buds into an appropriate amount of weird unless you’ve been tripping to the twisted beats of the Twisted Records tripster family. Shpongle, Younger Brother, Hallucinogen, Prometheus, The Zap!—these are, without a marginal doubt, the trippiest possible music-group configurations of this music generation. Involving three pillar-like shamanic figures of the psychedelic trance community, Simon Posford, Benji Vaughan and Raja Ram are continuously producing, and in so doing, proving, their alchemical sound-scape prominence.
Two of the three maestros, Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan, (the Younger Brother puppet masters) are looking to shoot their fans up with a suspicious-sounding musical vaccine this March. The name of this vaccination? Vaccine. (Their latest music album.) Now, you may be scratching your head wondering why they would name their album Vaccine; because I admit, I couldn’t follow their Shpongle-y logic either. In all actuality, I was kind of repulsed by their new album’s moniker. The word “vaccine”, in-and-of-itself, gives off a phonetically unappealing type of vibe; I didn’t understand what they were going for with this overly-sanitized medical title. I remember thinking: what kind of weird shit are these psychos getting themselves into, this time?
The repulsion grew when I noticed they were forming some sort of guitar-based, singer-led band. It seemed as if they were undergoing a repugnant alien transformation; going from the truest form of unclassifiably psyched-out, Goa-rooted trance to an electronically popped-out, vocal-based sham. Then when I first saw their video, “Night Lead Me Astray,” I began to lose all hope. It seemed as if Simon and Benji were both recklessly balance beaming over washed-up land. My first impression might’ve been wrong, but check out the video below.
Two of the three maestros, Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan, (the Younger Brother puppet masters) are looking to shoot their fans up with a suspicious-sounding musical vaccine this March. The name of this vaccination? Vaccine. (Their latest music album.) Now, you may be scratching your head wondering why they would name their album Vaccine; because I admit, I couldn’t follow their Shpongle-y logic either. In all actuality, I was kind of repulsed by their new album’s moniker. The word “vaccine”, in-and-of-itself, gives off a phonetically unappealing type of vibe; I didn’t understand what they were going for with this overly-sanitized medical title. I remember thinking: what kind of weird shit are these psychos getting themselves into, this time?
The repulsion grew when I noticed they were forming some sort of guitar-based, singer-led band. It seemed as if they were undergoing a repugnant alien transformation; going from the truest form of unclassifiably psyched-out, Goa-rooted trance to an electronically popped-out, vocal-based sham. Then when I first saw their video, “Night Lead Me Astray,” I began to lose all hope. It seemed as if Simon and Benji were both recklessly balance beaming over washed-up land. My first impression might’ve been wrong, but check out the video below.
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