Superstar DJs Benji Vaughan

Benji Vaughan produces bubbling trance with a tasty edge under a series of guises. His solo work as Prometheus has turned up some good stuff, including Time Bandit, one of this year's outdoor party anthems. He has also collaborated with Process, Nick Doof and Raja Ram and is now involved in a mouthwatering project with Simon Posford, aka Hallucinogen. PitchAdjust caught up with Benji in between his hectic studio and live schedules...

Hi there - what's up right this minute-
Things are good and the vibes are strong.

Most of us know you as Prometheus - but for those who haven't, what's that project all about-
Prometheus is just me on my own doing my own thing. At the moment I don't get time to do a lot on my own as I'm lucky enough to have some killer collaborations to work on. It's mainly trance and the odd down-tempo job for comps but one day there'll be an album on Twisted.

Prometheus was, though correct me if I am wrong, a mythical figure who rose from the flames to give mankind knowledge or something - was this a motivating factor in choosing the name-
He actually got his eyes picked out by birds for stealing fire from the gods!!!! It was "Prometheus Rising" by author Robert Anton Wilson that made me choose the name...the man's a true visionary.

Your stuff with Nick Doof particularly gets me going - will there be more collaboration with him-
It's difficult to track Nick down as he's always on the move with his laptop full of gadgets in exotic places...but here will be further stuff from Citizen Kaned.

You seem to collaborate quite a lot - do you prefer working with another person, or is it the Twisted-stable thing that all the producers seem to bounce a lot of energy off each other when they team up-
I love working with other people, everybody I do stuff with is totally different and inspiring. When the right two people get together the net output should always far exceed the sum of the parts... beautiful musical mental synergy... it's not just like doubling the power of a computer!

I hear you have had some success with the Junk 12" - what's all that about-
Junk is me and Joe Williams from The light and Pfn. He comes from a totally differnt angle from me... more house and breaks and club style music. But he two of us have found a really interesting sound… kinda tough tribal house with that little bit of a twisted undercurrent. It's doing really well and getting played by Sasha and Steve Lawler a lot.

What's it like working with Raja Ram-
Raj is a inspirational artist, always hungry to create and always willing to co-pilot me into some pretty weird places... he's made so much killer music I fell I can always trust his judgment.

And lately you have been working with Simon Posford on Younger Brother (the first single is due out soon on Twisted), what can you tell us about this project - are you going for a full throttle dancefloor attack or a deeper dubbier affair-
The Younger Brother project is going to be my main thing next year, were going to go at it full throttle in the new year and hopefully have an album and live show sorted by kinda summer time. We've got no fixed idea on the vibe it's gonna have but it's gonna be an album not just a compilation of banging techno tracks. So far we've done four tracks and they are all totally different from each other but with a certain underlying consistency.

Do you do much live work- Is this something you think is important in the trance scene-
Doing gigs is important and a lotta fun, I'm off to New York to do a gig with Simon (Hallucinogen) and Raj (Shpongle) on Friday and can't wait. You get to test your tracks to a crowd and to see how they all fit together as one consistent sound. However it is kinda strange...trance is studio music. In the same way some bands discover getting their sound on CD in a studi Tags

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