A dynamic duo, bound by a mutual love of badass beats, Jean acques Perry,melodic loopiness and John Carpenter - this is 7 Hurtz. They´re probably best known for their anthemic club tracks
"Beatbox" and "Stokers Motor" which tore up dancefloors on release in 2000. Killer riffs, electro stylings and sinister beats have made them classics of the Electro genre.

It´s not surprising that 7 Hurtz´ work is of such quality when you take a peep at the pair´s artistic pedigrees - Ben Cowan was a dancer with contemporary dance outfits such as Ricochet and Bedlam, with whom he had
travelled the European festival circuit. In addition to this, he was also a member of the LoWilliams Band, which you may not have heard of, but ended up
supporting George Clinton at the Phoenix Festival.

The LoWilliams Band were signed to a small indie label, Orange Egg. The boss was a dapper young-man-about-town, Brand New Heavies founder Lascelles Gordon. When not administering his fledgling label, Gordon kept himself busy
as a session musician for the likes of The Sandals, Beth Orton and the notorious Campag Velocet. His club night "Helter Stupid" was the destination of choice for Londoners seeking "offal sewage for the ears". Amazingly, he
managed to squeeze in a solo music career into this hectic lifestyle, a project called "Rock Oil". It was for the aforementioned project that
Lascelles requested Ben´s help with a couple of tracks. The experiment proved successful - and before long, our two chums were soon making music,
experimenting with a flood of ideas, theories and notions which came together to create the unique sound of 7 Hurtz.

When the pair initialised the collaboration, they had some definite ideas on what they were trying to achieve, as Ben explains "we were interested in
doing electronic music that involved improvisation, found sound, semi-generative, visually stimulated work that moved away from the music we had been doing. We also wanted to make the music in a way that meant the processes of writing, playing and recording converged so that we could do it
ourselves."

A tape made its way to a graphic designer Lascelles knew. The designer had recently set up Output and was enthused enough by the pairs´ ideas to release "Beatbox". Nice one, Trevor!

"Audiophiliac", a dark propulsive journey through funk/electro/hip hop and 303/808 cultures, received unanimous critical acclaim, with tracks such as
"Beatbox" and "Stokers Motor" landing like grenades on the listening public.
The bands myriad influences - the retro-futuristic sounds, the John
Carpenter "Assault On Precinct 13" obsessions and Hashim-style bleakness all contributed to a sound that revitalized and redefined the Electro scene.

7-Hurtz enthusiastically set to work on the follow up, due out soon.
Meanwhile, Lascelles is continuing his session work, cameos with old muckers
like Velocet and Beth Orton. He also runs a monthly night at Hoxton hotspot Herbal, unambiguously named "Warm Leatherette". Meanwhile, Ben´s not staying in watching Brookside. He´s just completed a Masters degree, is looking
forward to doing 7 Hurtz live, and is plotting
"generative/heuristic
performances and projects". Go, boy! Whatever happens next, you can bet your granny 7 Hurtz will take you on a fucked-up twisted trip to the heart of the
beat...and beyond