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Ben Sims Set

When you say Techno, you say Ben Sims! Simple as that, prove me wrong! Here are some of his finest Hardgroove Techno sets from the past! Enjoy!

With over 20 years experience under his belt, Ben Sims has a well-deserved reputation as one of the world's most in-demand and leading techno DJs - a tight, energetic mixer who skilfully weaves together his own distinctive blend of tough funk and hardg..
From early formative days earning his stripes spinning hip hop, house and rave on pirate radio, and at parties around Essex and East London, through the 90's as an ever more in demand DJ, and on into the new millennium as a label boss, producer and internationally recognised techno legend in his own right, Ben Sims has spent all his conscious life exploring all facets of underground dance music 

Throughout that time, the man has honed his reputation as a tight, energetic mixer who skilfully weaves together his own distinctive blend of tough funk and hardgrooves, often using three-deck wizardry and plenty of dexterity.  Be it at clubs like Fabric London, Atomic Jam, Berghain, Florida 135, or any number of festivals around the world, Sims' sets are powerful, memorable, and unique, while constantly pushing the boundaries of a DJ set - utilising a   mesmerizing blend of vinyl, CDs, and software.

As well as carving a reputation as one of the world's leading techno DJs, Ben has curated many of his own revered labels over the years.  Chief amongst them is Theory - an imprint this year celebrating it's 40th release, that counts amongst it's supporters contemporary connoisseurs like Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, and the old guard of Dave Clarke, Robert Hood, Rolando and more - proof, then, that Sims is on the form of his life production wise.

Riding high on the wave of critical acclaim from his cultured debut long player on Drumcode, 2011's Smoke & Mirrors, an album that voyages into Sim's unique take on techno, coupled with authentic house outings, thanks to guest appearances from Chicago's Tyree Cooper and Detroit's Blake Baxter, whilst also showcasing plenty of dubbed-out and grainy textures.

Sims has put his name to more than 50 releases in the last two decades.  During those years, there has also been a steady stream of high profile remixes of scene heavyweights, including Jeff Mills, Adam Beyer, Kevin Saunderson and Chris Liebing, on labels du jour like AXIS, KMS, CLR and Drumcode, all of which have won as much critical praise as they have crossover success. 

Despite his veteran status in the scene, Sims has always been keen to evolve.  Alongside Kirk Degiorgio, he is co-founder & curator of Machine - a clubnight which focuses on new, unreleased, & upfront music; it's primary home in London, but with editions all across Europe each year. His 'Run it Red' radio show, broadcast via NTSlive and podcasted afterwards, also serves to solely highlight new music.

Live @ Loft Club 2003-12-27

Ben Sims & Mark Broom Live @ Loft Club 27-12-2003

Run it Red 112! - Something a bit different this month, as it’s a recording taken from my opening set at the Code party at Fabrik in Madrid back in April. It was a Machine special edition and billed as Ben Sims all nighter as i played the ‘warm up’, the closing and 3 b2b sets throughout the night. A chunk of still unreleased cuts, plus lots of edits and faves, tracklist is below, so go and check the artists/labels.

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BEN SIMS pres RUN IT RED 112. July 2024

1. Ben Sims - Free Jack. Unreleased
2. Erol Alkan - Spectrum (Special Request Double Vision Mix). Phantasy Sound
3. 1200 Warriors - Da Bells. 1200 Traxx
4. B.A.D.S. - Hom-O-Patik (Paolo Tamoni Rework). Unreleased
5. Avision - Hold No Groove. COD3 QR
6. Uncertain - Transmission. ANAOH
7. Paula Cazenave - Ma Beat. Unreleased
8. Mr G - Lightz (G Out Dub Mix). Phoenix G
9. The 5 Beats - Can You Dig It (Beat-A-Pella). Real Tone
10. K-Hand - Everybody (Tommy Largo Remix). Acacia
11. Marquis Hawkes - Jerk U Later. Houndstooth
12. Parris Mitchell - Rubber Jazz Band (Len Faki Edit). Dance Mania
13. DJ Rush - Jack N Da Box. Unreleased
14. Floorplan vs Lil Louis (Remy Edit 1). Unreleased
15. Alden Tyrell - Vol 4. Clone Basement Series 
16. DJ Bruce Lee - The Line. Unreleased
17. Terry Mullen & Halo - La Nina. Smile
18. Mark Ambrose - Shooting Stars (Ben Sims Dub Long). Theory
19. Robert Hood - Low Life. M-Plant
20. Gene Richads Jr - Meant 2 Be. Unreleased
21. Four Lovers - 001/B1. Four Lovers
22. A&S - Monople (Sims JFF Edit). Unreleased
23. Truncate - The Way I Am. Unreleased 
24. ASSAILANTS - Fracture 2. Unreleased
25. K-Alexi - My Medusa (Remy Edit). Unreleased
26. Kr!z - Surge. Token
27. Mark Broom - W.W.W.W.W.W.W.Work. Hardgroove
28. Roberto Capuano - Groovin. Analytic Trail
29. Tronikhouse - The Savage and Beyond (Elyas 13130 Edit). Unreleased
30. The Nighttripper - Phuture (Robert Hood Remix). Underground Liberation
31. Escalated Edits - EE4. Unreleased
32. Escalated Edits - EE2. Unreleased
33. Len Faki vs Cratebug & Jamie 326 (Sims Mash Up). Unreleased
34. OFF / GRID - Insomniac. OFF / GRID
35. Rene Wise - Cutting Thick. Unreleased
36. ASSAILANTS - Effort 8. Obscurity Is Infinite
37. Robert Hood - Untitled. Unreleased
38. Theo Walbeck - Freek Tool. Local Talk
39. Marquis Hawkes - Like Dat (Sims JFF Edit). Unreleased
40. Ben Sims pres Ron Bacardi - Need Somebody. Hardgroove
41. Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord (Broom's La Chord Mix). Unreleased
42. Eats Everything - Sprint (Truncate Remix). EI8HT
43. Gene Richard Jr - Thug's Prayer. Unreleased
44. Nuke - Cookie Love. Hardgroove
45. Reese & Santonio - How To Play Our Music (Sims JFF Edit). KMS
46. Escalated Edits - EE1. Unreleased
47. Hood/Bicknell (Mark Broom Mash Up). Unreleased
48. Floorplan_We Magnify His Name (Mark Broom Edit). Unreleased
49. Jeff Mills - Real Life (Remy Edit). Unreleased
50. Juzer - Old Reliable. Clear
51. Risque III - Risque Madness (Remy Edit). Unreleased
52. Antonio De Angelis - Promising. Children of Tomorrow
53. ANNĒ - Serene. Mutual Rytm
54. ASSAILANTS - Fracture 1. Unreleased
55. Santos - Broken Symphony. Let Me Understand
56. Altinbas - Rivers. Observer Station
57. Hanton - Solaris. Collapse
58. Ray Kajoika - Pots & Pans (Sims JFF Edit). Unrelesed
59. Gene Richards Jr - Dance Your Last Dance. Unreleased
60. Submission - Women Beat Their Men (Cevin's Peak Hour Dub). Velocity

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Misstress Barbara & Ken Ishii @ Fabrik, Madrid - November 16th 2024

Here’s my set from HÖR Berlin, recorded during my debut in their legendary booth—aka the most iconic bathroom in electronic music.

Tracklist:

1. Fjaak - Wolves [Monkeytown Records]
2. Creznight - Backstab [Planet Rhythm]
3. Contakt - Misconception [MALöR Records]
4. Dave Alyan - Groovebox [Black Line Recordings]
5. Victor Fernandez - Follow the Path [South Signatures]
6. Kr!z - Oblivion [TOKEN]
7. Regent - Delta Hyve [Mutual Rytm]
8. Gunjack - Good Droids Gone Bad [Planet Rhythm]
9. Obscure Shape - Broken Circle [Frenzy]
10. OFF / GRID - Constant Expression [The Third Room]
11. Sinistermind - Bailemos por siempre [TNR Media]
12. Lars Huismann - Aeon [Monnom Black]
13. Gunjack - 19th & Nicollet [Planet Rhythm] 
14. Lars Huismann - Claws [Monnom Black] 
15. Vilchezz - Odyssey [Planet Rhythm] 
16. Slam - Animator [SOMA] 
17. Dajusch - Split [CROWD (DE)] 
18. Luciano Esse - One of Us (Mark Broom Remix) [Beard Man] 
19. JSPRV35 - Funktional [For You Records] 
20. Victor Fernandez - Unreleased

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/live/OaexNlaxDdU?si=m-LPgpRAvBMbDm42

VICTOR FERNANDEZ @ HÖR BERLIN I 19.02.25

We Have to Play & Dance

We Have to Play

Premiere of "Renewal" by Michele Mausi, taken from "100" EP, forthcoming on [R]3volution Records

Pre - Order: 
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Label: [R]3volution Records
Artist: Michele Mausi
Title: 100 EP
Track: Renewal
Cat.Number: R3D100
Format: Digital 
Release Date: July 14, 2025

In just 6 years since the birth of its digital catalog, [R]3volution Records celebrates release #100 with a 4 tracker from label founder and owner Michele Mausi. This release anticipates other (hopefully) much more important ones, also for the label's 10th anniversary scheduled for next year!

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/r3volution_michelemausi

100 EP

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Michele Mausi - Renewal [Premiere I R3D100]

Ahead of the Machine shows at Razzmatazz, Barcelona on 22nd of Feb and Fabrik, Madrid on 23rd Madrid, I thought I'd share the recording of my last visit to Fabrik for the mighty Code's 15th Anniversary. 

Lots of new heat and unreleased cuts as usual but as it was a special party, a healthy sprinkling of classics too. 
Enjoy!

Tracklisting: 

1. Christopher Kah - 4.1 
2. The Advent - High Horse (Sims JFF Edit)
3. Truncate - Dial (Heiko Laux Remix)
4. Shlomi Aber - Penetrate The System
5. Avision - The Come Up
6. SP-X - Unreleased
7. SP-X - Unreleased
8. Stefan Vincent - No Other Way But Down
9. Stef Mendesidis - Critical Ratio
10. Enformig - Сosmo Phantasmagoria
11. George Tounisidis -  Unreleased
12. Mark Broom - Unreleased
13. Jeroen Search - Vector Sum
14. Eskapist - Islet Observer
15. DJ Deep - The Machine (Truncate Remix)
16. Steven Julien - POT808 (Sims JFF Edit)
17. Ricardo Garduno - Edge (Jeroen Search Remix 1)
18. Keep This - Illogical (Marco Effe Remix)
19. Callum Plant - Second Send (Juan Trujillo Remix)
20. ASSAILANTS - Effort 8
21. Jeroen Search - The One
22. Stef Mendesidis - Gendarme Classe A
23. Paula Cazenave - Crazy Trip (Ben Sims Remix
24. Mark Broom - Things (Killa Productions Edit)
25. Jeff Mills - Reverting ((Sims JFF Edit)
26, Cadans - Creep
27. Missing Channel - Legion Of Hunger (S-File Remix)
28. Robert Hood - Master Jack (Sims JFF Edit)
29. Robert Hood - Clocks
30. Robert Hood - Grey Type I
31. James Ruskin - After Dark
32. SP-X - Concrete Faces
33. Mark Broom - Myth
34. Playboy - In Da Jungle (Al Edit)
35. Milos - Energy Tremor
36. Mr G - You In Or You out? Sims Jacker Edit) 
37. Museum - Plex (Sims JFF Edit)
38. Steve Rachmad - Tir Na Nog
39. Maxwell Church - Fencepost
40. Photonz & Shcuro - Sherman2
41. D.Dan - Covert Operation
42. Jb3 - Forklift (Luke Slater Filtered Mix)
43. Milos - Unreleased
44. Matrixmann - Protocol
45. Mella Dee - Unreleased
46. Human Resource - Dominator (Barrow Boy Edit)

Ben Sims @ Code 15 Aniversario - Fabrik Madrid - 17 Nov 2018

The Monegros Desert is noted for its Monegros Desert Festival, usually held in mid-July, attracting numerous Spaniards and internationally renowned DJ's and bands and some 40,000 people to its electronic music performances annually. Formerly called the "Groove Parade" after being founded in 1992, it is held at the Finca Les Peñetes, roughly 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Fraga, not far from Bujaraloz. It is held in a windowless graffiti filled hall called Flarida, with an area of some 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft).

Jeff Mills Live @ Monegros Desert Festival, Fraga Spain 16-07-2005

Electric Rescue 'Control Your Mind EP' - out now: https://fanlink.tv/HGDIGI036

Ben Sims 'Transmission One (Final Take) out now on Neighbourhood https://neighbourhood-ldn.bandcamp.com/album/hood010b-the-hive-volume-3

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Ben Sims @ Code 15 Aniversario - Fabrik Madrid - 17 Nov 2018

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