Future Music

“It makes it possible to inhabit a space and also somebody else’s mental state.”

Both as a solo artist under his Blanck Mass alias, and as one half one half of influential noise rock outfit Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power has spent nearly two decades creating forward-thinking music that skirts around the peripheries of techno, noise rock and ambient. Throughout that time, Power has built up a catalogue of field recordings, captured throughout years of traveling and touring, which formed a library of sounds that has finally made its way into his recorded output, providing much of the source material for his latest album, In Ferneaux.

“Coming from a ‘noise’ background I do still love guitar pedals”

Marking a slight break from the more techno-adjacent sound of his previous albums, is presented as two continuous sides of music, each of which seamlessly transitions from noisy,

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