Benjamin Mount, also known as Verse, Ben the Verse, The Verse and Pendulum Man, is an
English
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rapper
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,
MC,
record producer
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and record label owner best known as the former
MC in Australian/British
drum and bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
group
Pendulum
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.
Biography
Pendulum
Since 2006 and up until 2012 Ben has been the MC for Pendulum's Live Tours, remained their MC at DJ set events until mid 2017. In 2010, he made his studio debut on the band's album
Immersion
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as the vocals to the song "The Vulture".
Ben left the Pendulum Live shows to focus on creating his own songs and running his own label. As of late 2017 he has also ceased to appear on DJ sets.
Producer
Verse is also a known
drum and bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
and
dubstep
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producer. He had several drum and bass releases on his own label
Crunch Recordings alongside other artists such as
SP:MC,
dBridge
dBridge, also known as Velvit (born Darren White), is an English drum and bass record producer whose career began during the genre's conception in the early 1990s.IMO Records"dBridge Biography", ''IMO Records'', 17 October 2011. Retrieved 27 Oc ...
and others.
He also has several releases on
N-Type's dubstep-label
Wheel&Deal.
References
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English male rappers
Living people
1977 births
Pendulum (drum and bass band) members
Rappers from London