BK, a.k.a. Ben Keen is recognised the world over as one of the most successful and prolific hard dance producers of all time. He has been voted ‘No.1 Hard Dance Producer’ every year for six years at the ‘Hard Dance Awards’ in London and ‘Best Selling Hard Dance Producer of all time’.
BK’s sound as producer and DJ is ever-changing, always full of energy and renowned for blowing up the dance floor with trance, techno and hard house. His tracks are irresistible to both clubbers and critics but the true measure of his talent is seen in the number of fellow producers and DJs who clamour for a slice of BK’s skills.
Unsurprisingly 2009 has already been a highly successful year for BK. His last five releases are receiving major endorsement from Radio 1’s Judge Jules and Kutski. While under his moniker ‘Black Russian’ he’s No.1 in the Ibiza club charts with ‘In for the Kill’ La Roux, Black Russian/ Tristan Ingram Remix, (receiving major support from Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Armin Van Buuren and Sander van Doorn).
BK’s record label Riot! is continuing to storm the dance charts across several genres and has just become a resident club night consistently selling out Fabric’s awesome new 2500 capacity London club ‘Matter’, which boasts Andy C’s Ram, Sven Vath’s Cocoon and Paul Van Dyke as residents.
BK is a firm favourite at clubs and events around the world. He headlines and appears at all of the biggest dance events, including Dance Valley, Global Gathering UK, Gatecrasher Summer Sound System UK, Impulse NL, Frantic Hard House Academy UK, Creamfields UK, Godskitchen, NEC UK, Judgement Sunday Ibiza, Lashed in Ibiza, Gallery UK, Slinky UK, and Code Japan.
He currently calls three of the most forward-thinking UK hard dance events home, holding residencies at Frantic’s Convergence, Kinky’s Trade and of course Riot! at Matter.
Much of BK’s success stems from his production career that began at age 16. As a trainee engineer at a London studio he used the studio’s equipment to experiment with his own style. It was later, at Media Records, that he began producing original tracks.
BK joined Nukleuz Records and immediately became known for his profusion of definitive hard house tracks. His residency with Nukleuz and the extensive list of ground breaking music he produced for the label was key to it becoming the world’s top hard house label.
Since 1995, BK produced more than one hundred 12’s and remixes, including remixes of Mario Piu ("The Vision"), Mauro Picotto ("Iguana"), Storm ("Storm Animal"), DT8 ("Destination"), and Tony De Vit ("I Don’t Care") and recorded tracks for labels ranging from Positiva, Data, and Ministry of Sound to NuLife, FFRR, and Tidy.
Many of his tracks became UK Top 10 hits, but BK’s "Revolution", with the support of Judge Jules and Dave Pearce, entered BBC Radio One’s daytime rotation in 2002 – still a singular accomplishment for a hard house track.
BK’s albums and compilations have also garnered huge success. His series of Nukleuz Presents compilations (including Hard House Anthems) earnt multiple Mixmag "Album of the Year" awards. His solo Euphoria album once again redefined the sound of hard dance. More recently BK has mixed countless compilations for Nukleuz, Tidy and Riot! He has produced two artist albums, “BK Under the influence" the biggest selling hard dance artist album of 2007 and "BK presents NU wave" which went on to be the biggest selling hard dance artist album of 2008. He continues to work with the likes of Judge Jules and Lisa Lashes in the studio, while recording a mix album with Alex Kidd slated for release in November and an artist album with Anne Savage due out on Riot! in February.
BK is known as a genre-defining producer, but is also now recognized as possibly the most influential DJ in the hard dance scene and in fact the only hard dance artist to so successfully traverse its genres with his productions and DJ sets.
As we head towards 2010 BK’s prodigious talents continue to create new direction for the future of hard dance.
Special thanks for adding me! I really love your world forever. I'm looking forward to listen to your live & DJ directly. Anyway, just I keep on listening to your music!! No your world No life!!
cant wait to hear are you all ready!!!! will most definitely be pickin it up when it gets a proper release. love the tunes. thanks for helping the sound from going stale mate! - Jason
ayy wats goin on its been quite a moment since i seen whats goin on with you... Im just living life working hard like always.. rehearsing for these shows i got in Santa barbara @ the velvet jones... thats bout it over here... ohh yea and travelling a bit... but I guess thats the norm for me... but wats with you drop me some lines when u can and make sure to always keep in touch with ya boi... Sincere
u r super mix master!!!!!!!!!!!! and i really luv Prodigy since 1990 too. i like that u drop in their track or sampling in ur mix!! anyways i VOTE u this year too!!!!! and plz plz plz come to play in japan, tokyo to make us get high!!!!!!!
Hi!! this is my new brand new track :) Mixin the Thypical Brazilian Escola de Samba from Floripa Island (Brazil) with the the classic House drums! Remixes by, Anderson Redna, Comandulli, JezZz and Steven King.
U can check this on my profile, will spend just few minutes :), Thanks!
Here Is A Poem That I Wrote And I Want 2 Share With U...
Tell Me If U Like It And Have A Nice Day....
SECRET WORLD
Alone in the dark Where u are? I can't feel u I can't hear u
Why? We are on Different places At the same time I want to be With u In the same place At the same time
Alone in the dark I hear my name From far away A beautiful voice From a beautiful Lady Step by step I’m getting closer 2 cold 4 been real
High Wycombe Buckinghamshire The front door is open She let me in She’s in front of me Now we are In the same place At the same time
Grab my hand Let’s find home Maybe is up in the sky A golden compass reflect the sun Maybe we r in the right way Grab my hand Kiss my heart Take me into another world Far away from this chaos Take me into a beautiful world A secret World Where always is sunrise Two full moons A beautiful World That nature design Just for u and me
Thank you very much for da Link Up & Sharing the music Nice to meet you through cyberlink! Luv your tunes & keep up da Great Work! Wishes you All da Best in 2009! Enjoy your Week!
Hi Vote BK Top100 http://top100djs.djmag.com/ ! Hope your going well! Wanted to to advise you that my track "Teck Drive" is now up on the release "Second Dose EP" on Techno Addicted Records! For more info visit: http://www.crazyteck.com/index.en.teckdrive.html
Also, as usual, i recorded a new techno set including my next 3 track EP (that you can listen preview on my page!) called Strictly On DOSE! All tracks are released on techno addicted records! Hope you'll like! You can download the set and see the track list here: http://www.crazyteck.com/index.en.dose.html
And why not even a second Dj set for you... and this one was recorded live on July 25th 2009 at an after-hour here in Montreal called LeChill! You can download the set or listen in streaming here: http://www.crazyteck.com/index.en.chill_2009-07-25.html
