Colin Benders (born 5 November 1986 in Utrecht, The Netherlands) is an Utrecht-based Dutch techno musician, or perhaps 'experimental electronic musician' would be a more appropriate description. From 2009 onwards Benders gained prominence in the Dutch music scene as Kyteman, band leader of the 18-strong live hip hop and jazz orchestra, The Kyteman Orchestra, in which Benders himself played the trumpet. From 2020 onwards, however, Benders started focusing on techno and electronic improv under his own name. He is a sole (but far-from-lonely) emperor of a monster 243-module rack, a genre-unbound sound explorer, a modular mad scientist to the bone. Colin Benders defies the conventions of so easily tag-slapped electronics as much as his music confronts gravity itself. Untamed and unshackled from today’s main line of tepid production behaviourism, striving in an artistic lane truly his own, Benders has completely veered off the grand street's accepted modus operandi to operate his gear and imagination in utterly innovative fashion. Having garnered a more than solid experience of the first-hand musician-to-listener experience, Benders keeps on cutting new trails for live electronics, away from drowsy standards and mimetic attitudes. Instead, the Dutch performer pledges to rethink our whole consumption and digestive process of music through lengthy, free-jazz-like momentums to lose your mind and body to. Benders first brace of albums under his own name saw the light of day in 2020 and 2021: Floaty Things and Rigmarole.