Benestrophe

Benestrophe was the first band of brothers Gary and Dwayne Dassing, formed in San Antonio, Texas, with vocalist Richard Mendez. Their first song, "Pig Butcher", was recorded in the summer of 1988, with Gary and Dwayne writing the music on synthesizers and samplers and Mendez writing and singing the lyrics.

The band went quiet around 1990 when the brothers moved to Austin, and Gary carried on under a new name: Mentallo & The Fixer. Benestrophe returned in the mid-1990s on Ras Dva Records with a limited CD edition of Sensory Deprivation (1994) and Auric Fires (1997). Turner's All Night Drugstore, a collection of rare and unreleased material from 1987 to 1997, followed in 2018.