Gotham City Radio-Becka & Ben Sims-Sat. July9th
Sat. July 9th-Gotham City Radio With Becka & the Ben Sims
Airing This Saturday from noon until 3PM (EST)/18:00-21:00 (CET)
Once again, DJ Becka and techno label Gotham Grooves of NYC are back to bring you ‘Gotham City Radio’ on Livesets.com.
Airing every Saturday, from 12:00pm – 3:00pm EST(eastern standard time) 18:00 – 21:00 CET(central european time). Alongside Becka's weekly tune selections, we will be featuring international and local guest dj's and performances for your enjoyment. We hope to help kick start your day or evening, depending on where you’re tuning in from. Just go to www.livesets.com and follow the links at the top right.
Join us this week as we air an exclusive set recorded at the Tronic Treatment edition of Tech-Support from one of the most in demand techno producers of today-Ben Sims.
Ben Sims had his first decks at age ten. Schooled on mix tapes by the likes of Bambatta, 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 ten or so years and you’ll find he’s one of the UK’s biggest techno exports and a much in demand producer.
Ben runs 3 main labels (Ingoma/Hardgroove/Theory) plus other occasional projects (Native/Symbolism/killabite) 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, Laurent Garnier and Rolando, whilst also attracting crossover appeal that has seen Carl Cox, Fergie, Kenny Dope, Judge Jules and even Tiesto drop the odd sims cut. He has remixed Jeff Mills, Green Velvet, Blake Baxter, Marco Bailey, Chris Liebing and Adam Beyer and has a forthcoming artist album signed to forward-thinking UK label Peacefrog.
The past 6 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, Belguim and Tresor, Berlin, Awakenings, Amsterdam, Fabric, London, Florida 135, Fraga, La Real, Oviedo, Dance Valley, Amsterdam and Atomic jam, Birmingham plus hundreds of others with his tight, energetic and skilful brand of 3 deck wizardry. Add this to his recent ventures into promoting with both the Retro_vert and Split parties causing a storm in London, a monthly internet radio show with Split co-promoter Chris Finke and a new mix cd lined up for Billy Nasty’s ‘Torture Chamber’ series, there’s certainly no sign of things slowing down anytime soon for Mr Sims.
Tune in, sit back, relax, and enjoy the sounds from Gotham City…….
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To book Ben please contact:
Europe. Natasha@dynamix-berlin.de
UK/Ireland/Scotland.martje@decked-out.co.uk
Asia. sam@mainlinemusic.net
The rest. bookings@bensims.com
Upcoming releases:
GREENWICH ALLSTARS VOL 3 (BEN SIMS AND MARK BROOM) ON INGOMA.
VA.KINGDOM OF DRUMS VOL 1 (FEAT BEN SIMS) ON INGOMA.
MARK WILLIAMS.BEN SIMS REMIXES ON REAL SESSIONS.
DJ URBAN.U WORK IT.BEN SIMS REMIX ON FLUX
VA.CONSPIRACY/BEN SIMS MIX CD ON THEORY
