Mr. Speed

Mr. Swiftness (aka Benjamin Velocity) started producing music on his family computer in 1998, liberating two EPs — Velocity Presents: Mr Tappin’ New and Velocity Presents: The SPOUSE of Mankind — while generating a qualification in Music Technology from Adelaide University or college. In 2001 he fulfilled DJ Tr!p, aka Tyson Hopprich, and both formed electro/hip-hop group the brand new Pollutants. Velocity rapped aswell, as adding beats and creation for the duo’s two albums, Hygene Atoms in 2002 and Urban Professional Nightmares in 2004. The duo also composed a new rating to accompany the 1927 silent research fiction traditional Metropolis. Their Metropolis Rescore debuted on the Adelaide Film Celebration to important acclaim and Rate started composing for brief films, primarily in colaboration with the People’s Republic of Computer animation, and transferred to Sydney to work at a Experts in Display screen Composing on the Australian Film Tv and Radio College. During this time period, he’d continued producing tracks by himself, seeking a skewed and somewhat surreal geeky hip-hop visual, putting the music on his MySpace web page. Australian label Innovative Vibes uncovered the music and agreed upon him for an archive deal that led to his solo record The Dreamer in 2007. It had been called after Speed’s declare that every one of the music were motivated by alternately prophetic, lucid, and waking dreams. He also continuing composing ratings, including that of the brief animated film Road Angel, predicated on the comic reserve from the same name, in ’09 2009.