Benjamin Vaughan, better known as Benji Vaughan, is a British psychedelic trance musician. He has released music under many names, of which most well known is his solo project, Prometheus, and his collaboration with Twisted Records label colleague, Simon Posford, under the moniker Younger Brother.[1] His music is characterized by distinct basslines, high production quality, intense thematic development and unique or alternative approaches to the psytrance genre. He frequently combines diatonic melodic content with metallic or “glitchy” percussive polyphonic elements to form thick contrapuntal tapestries of sound. Although much of his music sounds like it was composed using equipment at the forefront of technology, it is not uncommon for him to use equipment now considered antique, such as the 1971 Korg micro synth that he used for portions of the second Prometheus album, Corridor of Mirrors.
He has released three albums as Prometheus; Robot.O.Chan (2004), Corridor of Mirrors (2007), and Spike (2010). The albums have been well received by the trance community for their innovation, dancefloor appeal, and their incorporation of non-traditional influences. Robot.O.Chan features two downtempo tracks whereas Corridor of Mirrors maintains a consistent trance bent. Benji is currently working on a new album which will feature all downtempo tracks (probably under his own name).
Younger Brother have released three albums to date, A Flock of Bleeps (2003), The Last Days of Gravity which was released on October 15, 2007 and Vaccine which was released in 2011. Younger Brother’s musical output is much more varied than that of Prometheus, with tracks ranging from the psychedelic french ballad, “The Receptive,” to progressive breakbeats such as “Weird on a Monday Night”, to sounds reminiscent of Pink Floyd on their recent album.