Jinsang is Benjamin (Ben) Tran, an independent, California-based beatmaker and one of the best-known names of the 2010s lo-fi hip-hop wave. He started making beats at fifteen, in his first year of high school, and he makes hazy, sample-based instrumentals. solitude., his fourth solo project, is 26 short, warm instrumentals that took about half a year of 'digging samples and crafting'. He produced, mixed and mastered it himself, and 'reminisce.' is one of its miniatures. It came out digitally on 16 January 2016, with a cassette on DirtyBeauty that August. His 42-track album Perspective, beats made between 2020 and 2025, came out on 27 June 2025 with a limited vinyl run.
From the notes for Episode 11 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
