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Artist: Ben Neill
Label: Six Degrees
Category: Music

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

1 reviews
Sales Rank: 238984

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 657036107724
EAN: 0657036107724
ASIN: B00006HI9X

Release Date: September 3, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Tracks:

•	Shiny Nickel
•	Bouquet
•	Iceman
•	Radio VW
•	Nite Nite
•	Multiplex
•	Showdown
•	Bugfunk
•	The Chase
•	Turbolectro

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Ben Neill has been one of the more overlooked and adventurous exponents of electronica. In the four years since his challenging Goldbug album, he's been creating the edgy electronica music for Volkswagen commercials. In a reverse of the usual trend, Neill has taken those 30-second and one-minute jingles and expanded them into full-on compositions. Neill has a dark and aggressive approach to electronica grooves, with snarling bass lines and juggernaut percussion loops, that are nevertheless exhilarating. But what really sets him apart are the harmonic and melodic overlays he creates, mostly with his Mutant trumpet. It's a custom device with three trumpet bells, six valves, and a mini-trombone slide, but it also triggers synthesizers, samplers, and effects. Neill seamlessly orchestrates them into music that references Miles Davis and lounge music, urban jungle beats, and space music overdrive. Putting Automotive in the CD player is like setting the cruise control on euphoria. --John Diliberto

Album Description
Ben Neill creates a unique musical universe, melding the worlds of electronic dance culture, jazz, art music and visual media. Automotive features expanded arrangements of music Ben has composed for a series of groundbreaking VW television ads.

Critical praise for Ben Neill:

"9 out of 10 rating...Ben Neill is a mad scientist, and he has discovered the formula that breaks musical barriers."-Mixmag

"An artist in every sense of the word...behind every thought are fat beats and extreme passion."-URB

"Art music for the people..."-WIRED Magazine

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

A Catchy Expansion of Previous Gems February 26, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Anyone who is familiar with the Volkswagon commercials is aware of the catchy electronica that envelopes the viewer and aids the visuals. Well, Ben Neill was the guy who composed those, and for this album he takes some of those gems and extends them into entire pieces. Despite what you may think - that stretching a 30-second piece into a full-fledged song is overdoing it - it actually works well as it gives him more time to build up, strip down, and fool around with the sound a bit instead of just exploding within 30 seconds. An interesting and unique album not to be missed.