Ben Sims

Since he created his label Theory Recordings towards the end of 1997, the London DJ and producer Ben Sims has not stopped answering the call of the jungle that the dancefloor becomes when he is in the booth. Only an animal of the decks like Ben Sims is capable of breaking the maxim that says that the good producer is rather limited when he mixes or vice versa. His technique is exquisite - he began to be interested in hip hop when he was only ten years old - and his productions enjoy full board in the suitcases of the most famous Dj's of the techno planet. That magic triumvirate formed by texture, rhythm and groove has no secrets for the Briton who, like so many others, has a background in pirate radio stations. From there to the booths of some small clubs that begin to rely on house and hip hop -many of his followers would pay for an audio of some of those seminal sets- until Sims' cache begins to raise zeros after being hired by the Berlin agency Dy-Na-Mix. With the signing comes a flurry of offers to take up residency at clubs such as The Orbit, Voodoo and House of God. It was then that Ben Sims began to move towards techno but without forgetting his funk roots. In fact, his first productions are indebted to a combination of Chicago Funk and tribal house (somewhat dark). He becomes one of the faces of what some call tribal techno. Perhaps Manipulated -and the remix of it made by the Swedish Adam Beyer- is his best known track for the general public. In some interviews Sims has described his musical production as a natural continuation of his youthful interests. He also recognizes that what he enjoys most is DJing, much more than producing -he always claims that his is a solo exercise- although later this purely onanistic activity is featured on different labels, Primate, Primevil, Code Red, Tresor, Phont Music and Pure Plastic, and ends up in the hands of Jeff Mills or Carl Cox. In 2013 he takes charge of a new installment of the Fabric series where he has been a fixture in recent years, both as a DJ and producer, with a mix composed of 44 tracks inspired by the dark Room 2 of the London club. A year later he decides to close his Theory label and does it in style, with a triple vinyl that includes a handful of tracks signed by the veteran British artist accompanied by remixes by Surgeon, Marcel Dettmann, DVS1 and Luke Slater as Planetary Assault Systems. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)