Ben Russell - Bon.

Ben Russell is okay now! He wasn’t… but now he is! 

Through the power of an OP-1 synthesizer and video clips from Takeshi’s Castle, Ben immediately hypnotized me into a blissful delirium that I never wanted to end. And who can blame someone for narrowing their focus solely onto the things they love?  

The lo-fi beats he produces on the fly begin as delightful underscores to his already very strong material, but they gradually intertwine with his ever shifting rhythm of delivery. Select phrases are delivered with booming reverb, jokes are punctuated with abrupt pauses, and naturally a singular fart noise is presented at just the right moment.

His auto-tuned recollection of his Anglican high school teacher incorrectly stating in an assembly that “wussy” is short for “woman’s pussy” is worth the price of admission alone.