Ninja Gaijin · jungle & rollers artist

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Ninja Gaijin (Melbourne, Australia) originally began playing guitar in Indie Rock, Improvised Noise & Metal bands in 1997, and was a student of Melbourne's Rock n Roll High School. After falling in love with Jungle in 1995, he later discovered and became equally enraptured with Terrorcore, Speedcore & Breakcore music. For a couple of years he produced as Quantum Nanotech Extinction before settling on his current moniker - a namesake of the video game Ninja Gaiden. His music primarily focuses on expressing deep emotions with juxtapositon of light and dark elements. He also organises events under the name Subterfuge Seminars (primarily the Terrorcore, Breakcore & Hardcore Techno club event Axed, which he co-runs alongside Dutch ex-pat DJ Jor Terror). Ninja has additionally done some rapping (as Tannu Gaijin), a bit of Tuvan & Mongolian style throat-singing, and in the late `90s created and maintained official band websites for acts such as Sea Scouts and Ninetynine under the banner 'The Grey Sea'. He also has dabbled in zine writing, music journalism, music photography and hosting the occasional community radio show.

Biography

Always passionate about music, Ben has worked in organizing and promoting parties, zine writing, music journalism/photography, hosting community radio shows, coding and maintaining band web-sites, band performances, djing, sound engineering, freestyle and written rapping and Tuvan & Mongolian style throat-singing. In 2005 Ben shifted focus from bands to solo work in electronic productions and dj performance. After various projects, he now finds himself performing under the name 'Ninja Gaijin'. Ben's music attempts to juxtapose and fuse as many eclectic tones and rhythms into as short a space of time as possible, allowing a focus on lack of repetition as well as an aim towards unexpected variations.

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