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| members | Benji Vaughan, Simon Posford, Ruu Campbell |
| manager | Jeni Raskin; Marc Sheinman; Jon Bailey |













| members | Benji Vaughan, Simon Posford, Ruu Campbell |
| manager | Jeni Raskin; Marc Sheinman; Jon Bailey |
Younger Brother are quite possibly the biggest band in the world that you HAVEN’T heard of – unless, that is, you are one of the 70,000 subscribers to their online mailing list, which is only the more committed fraction of their spiralling global fanbase.
The core duo of Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan are royalty on the international trance scene, revered for their mindbending solo DJ-ing, as well as various offshoot projects, but most of all for the bold, progressive music they make together as Younger Brother. With their new album, ‘Vaccine’, they’re all set to cross over into the mainstream, with a collection of expansive, anthemic songs – real songs, moulded according to their own unique digital process – which warrant radio airplay just as much as dancefloor action.
The story of Younger Brother is one of flagrant rule-breaking, restless creativity and phenomenal success – the latter achieved entirely without the support of the mainstream music industry. At their first ever conventional London gig in ’08, they almost filled Brixton Academy, while Posford’s Shpongle sideline recently shifted an astonishing 6,500 tickets across two nights at the Roundhouse – all without a booking agent, PR, media advertising, label support or any of that nonsense, instead just building up their own fiercely DIY independent/underground infrastructure.
Younger Brother’s third album is the boldest chapter in their story to date: ‘Vaccine’ sounds like no other record ever made, marrying top-quality, stadium-size songcraft to pulsing beats and sound palette of full-tilt psychedelic trance. It’s a remarkable album, which variously may echo Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Kraftwerk, or even Coldplay, but never sounds like anything but itself.

