PLEASE DO NOT SEND LINKS THRU MYSPACE OR SPAM ME ON YOUR RELEASES, I WILL JUST DELETE IT!!!! PLEASE UPLOAD ANY MUSIC YOU WANT ME TO ACTUALLY CHECK TO: http://dropbox.yousendit.com/bensims OR POST TO: HARDGROOVE: PO BOX 60447, LONDON, E9 7TL.UK. THANKS!!! BACK TO THE BIO:...Known as the '3 deck master', 'the human ableton' and 'the machine', Ben Sims had his first decks at age ten. Schooled on mix tapes by the likes of Bambaata, DJ Cheese and Froggy, and with his musical roots in reggae, funk, disco, electro, rare groove and hip-hop, by his mid teens he was spinning at after-hours 'blues' houses and a few years later came the acid house explosion with pirate radio and clubs. Skip forward over 15 years and you’ll find he’s one of the UK’s biggest techno exports and a much in demand producer.
Ben has been involved in running 9 labels, a couple of which are on hold at present (Theory, Killabite, Hardgroove, Native, Ingoma, Symbolism, Assembly, KB Records inc, Split Music), each one with a distinctive sound, ranging from hardgroovin’ and funk driven techno and house that is the trademark of his DJ sets, via tribal, to melodic electronica. In a genre that propagates sound-a-likes, Ben Sims productions have gained widespread attention and feature regularly in the boxes of his own personal heroes like Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills and Rolando, whilst also attracting crossover appeal from the likes of Carl Cox etc. He has remixed Jeff Mills, Green Velvet, Blake Baxter, DJ Funk, Marco Bailey, Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer plus many more and has had his tracks and remixes featured on mix cds by Robert Hood, Francois Kevorkian, DJ Rush, Joey Beltram, Dave Clarke, Umek, Luke Slater, Sven Vath, Richie Hawtin and hundreds more.
The past 10 years have seen Ben constantly touring and tearing up dancefloors at legendary clubs & parties like- Liquid room, Tokyo, Sonar, Barcelona, Limelight. NYC, Rex, Paris, Zouk, Singapore, I love Techno, Gent, Tresor, Berlin, Awakenings, Amsterdam and Atomic jam, Birmingham plus hundreds of others with his tight, energetic and skilful brand of 3 deck wizardry. Add this to the 6 deck ROKU sets with Mark Broom, recent ventures into promoting with both the Retro_vert and Split parties causing a storm in London, a monthly internet radio show presented with Alex Downey and a new mix cd lined up for the Slovenian based Matrix series, plus the FREQUENCY 7 dex, fx and laptop shows with Birmingham's Surgeon, pushing the boundaries of DJ sets or as part of the ESSEX RASCALS with Tony Anderson, Mark Broom and Paul Mac dropping everything from House to Funk to Disco, The illusive classics remixing duo KILLA PRODUCTIONS again with Paul Mac, plans for a disco re-edit project and after recent bizarre but genius use of the hit 'remanipulated' in a hardcore lesbian porn movie doing the rounds on the net, you can certainly expect some sexy new beats from mr sims very soon ;-)
Hey man, how is it going?¿ I hope to be able to see you this saturday @ OH León, as I have some exams... There, it was the first time I saw you, in 2004....and since then I have seen you in many places, the last one @ Bokaroo, Valencia de Don Juan (León) I think you already know me... lol ;) I'm sure it will be a great night together Cristian Varela and the local Dj Joton... (among others) I'm gonna study hard this week to see you in my city ;) Take care yourself man, you're very big ;)
PS: Dollar bill y'all vocal version.....FUCKING AWESOME!!! I want you to sign me the Hardgroove 009 :P
Simmy awesome set as always at the Subby, wish you could make the relentless with james ruskin for Easty's fundraiser but dont take too long before you return!! Nice one Simmy, Nice one Son, Nice one Simmy Lets hear another one!!
