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Bensley Hard Times ft. Emer Dineen

Genre-hopping RAM Records protégé Peter Bennett aka Bensley’s second album Muskoka is a grab-bag of different styles, from wonky breakbeat workouts to soundtrack-like synth soundscapes. Future Music caught up with the cunning Canadian at London’s Dairy Studios to find out how he created one of the album’s highlights, the jazzy, sax-laden DnB roller, Hard Times.

Muskoka is a pretty varied album, but Hard Times has its own vibe.

“That one was written across like the longest span of time and had the most experimentation; I had the most time to explore every avenue and every

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