Ben has been playing live electronic music and DJing since 1999 - his style brings dark electro with twisted cutting edge sounds and rhythms to the dancefloor. Ben's music has been compared to "Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin colliding in Miami".
"If Autechre made electro for the dancefloor, this is what it would sound like."
Ben has performed alongside artists such as: Tipper, Richard Devine, EVAC, Ion Driver, Phoenecia, Monolake, L'usine, Proem, Transparent Sound, Deru, Anthony Rother, Single Cell Orchestra, Andrea Parker, Funkstorung, and ADJ to name just a few. He is a veteran of the Southern California desert party scene and has played at countless indoor and outdoor venues up and down both coasts of the United States and throughout the UK.
In August of 2017 Ben performed to popular acclaim at the Tipper and Friends 4321 Eclipse Festival in Astral Valley, Missouri.
Ben's original music (with several releases under the alias 'Doctor Evil') has been released in both vinyl and digital formats by a number of different record labels including Outside Recordings (Charlotte, NC), Touchin' Bass (London, UK), Bot Records (San Francisco, CA), the Designed Disorder (Los Angeles, CA), Buried In Time (Portland, OR), Pyramid Transmissions (London, UK), Acre Recordings (Edinburgh, UK), and Cartesian Binary (Portland, OR).
"Ben Milstein is an electro breaks robot master. My mind was blown wide open and tweaked in many different directions for the entire set. I was subconsciously transplanted with circuitry and turned into a robot."
Selected Discography:
Solo Releases (vinyl and digital):
'Untitled EP' – Buried In Time (Portland, OR) – 2011
'Patience EP' – Bot Records (San Francisco, CA) – 2009
'Doctor Evil – Ritual EP' – Touchin' Bass (UK) – 2004
'Procrastinate EP' – Outside Recordings (Charlotte, NC) – 2004
'Untitled EP' – Outside Recordings (Charlotte, NC) – 2002
Compilation and Remix Appearances (vinyl and digital):
'Con-Fusion EP' – Acre Recordings (UK) – 2014 Remix of C. Mantle's 'Confusion'
'Codex01' – Acre Recordings (UK) – 2011
'Alternative Networks' – Pyramid Transmissions (UK) – 2007
'Subsidence' – Touchin' Bass (UK) – 2005
Record Reviews:
Boomkat.com review
Outside Recordings 006 – Ben Milstein 'untitled EP'
"One of those frightening records that crops up every so often from outta nowhere, clearing the decks and asserting itself as a debut to die for. This record steams off originality and really does make you wonder where on earth Mr. Milstein has been hiding all this time. Brilliantly fresh in the darkest possible sense, an absolute killer 4-tracker."
Overloadmedia.co.uk review
Outside Recordings 007 – Ben Milstein 'Procrastinate EP'
"It's not often that you hear something so fresh and as accomplished as this, which does truly sound as if it was made on a different planet to the other music out there. Milstein manages to eke out the most demented and apocalyptic sounds from his machines that will turn your head inside out. The tracks all have real depth, not merely relying on obvious hooks or loops to keep the listener's interest; just as a groove snags you in, it evolves into something else as everything dissolves into a sea of distortion or is swallowed up by a huge barrage of bass and the track hits you from yet another angle."
Smallfish Records review
Outside Recordings 007 – Ben Milstein 'Procrastinate EP'
"Its electro. But its so much more than electro at the same time. Stunning programming and manipulation combine crispy, crunchy sounds and more traditional electro noises to awesome effect. A killer slice of dancefloor action. Essential."
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