Ben Men “Black light” SCAN 7 & Terrence Parker rmx
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Mastering: Kage Mastering - Detroit 
Digital distribution: EPM Music
Digital promotion: Dispersion PR
Management: Delighted Agency

– Out April, 26th 2019 
on all major platforms Beatport / Traxsource / Spotify / Apple Music

- French dance music mainstay Ben Men is next up on his own co-founded label with a brand new house cut featuring big remixes from Detroit’s Scan 7 collective and the legendary Terrence Parker.

Ben Men founded and managed key French record stores Statik and Basement Trax from 1996 to 2002, has hosted his own parties at the famous Rex and been a resident at plenty of cult parties both at home but also at D Edge in Brazil. His wide involvement in dance music has brought him a wealth of influences and inspirations to draw on and here he channels them into a classy new house single with a real US edge.

The timeless ‘Black Light’ is dedicated to the Motor City, with references to early Detroit culture and a warm, wandering bassline. Stabbing synths and plenty of retro soul light up the grooves as you surge on a wave of rich house nostalgia.

Scan 7 is a mysterious techno collective from Detroit who have featured on Derrick May’s Transmat, here they deliver a fresh remix that perfectly captures the bounce of house and techno. In what is bound to be a dance floor classic, wild keys and synths brim with both energy and jazz looseness and cannot fail to blow up the club.

Terrence Parker is an enduring Detroit mainstay with a rich catalogue of cuts mostly on his own essential Intangible Records & Soundworks. He offers a powerful remix here with raw drums and busy melodies, a typical trademark of this noted producer, with a knotted baseline powering it all along and taking you ever higher.

This fantastic package exudes Detroit authenticity from start to finish.
Press contact – julian@dispersionpr.com

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Artist: Robben
Title: Resilience
(incl. Scan X & Ferdinand Prairie Remixes)
Label: BTRAX Records
Release: 22nd November 2019
Cat No: BTX015
Release: Digital

Label co-founders Ben Men & Rob Malone aka Robben drop their debut EP on BTRAX Records, featuring remixes from Scan X and Ferdinand Prairie.

The multifaceted French duo Robben have been at the forefront of France’s electronic music since the early nineties. Their BTRAX events, situated at Laurent Garnier’s REX Club, saw the likes of Extrawelt, Etapp Kyle, Steve Rachmad, Gregor Tresher, Scan 7, Traumer, and Dasha Rush gracing their parties. 

Since then, the co-founded Paris imprint BTRAX Records continues to grow its catalogue with Ben Men, Camille Rodriguez and Meda previously releasing and featuring in the cuts. Now the duo returns to deliver their next joint single on BTRAX alongside two driving techno remixes from fellow French artists; Stéphane Dri, Volphonie and F Communications, aka Scan X, and REX Club regular Ferdinand Prairie aka Präri.

Robben’s original mix of ‘Resilience’ opens the EP with driving mid-range kicks, responding cymbals, climbing 303-esque synths and an addictive modular riding groove, Scan X then pushes this melody into a euphoric space whilst gating the percussion to elevate the energy in
his remix of ‘Resilience’.

Ferdinand Prairie’s ‘Resilience’ remix takes the aural experience into a new soundscape with rhythmically bubbling synthesizer-work, saturated claps and stereo flickering pads. 

Robben’s thumping organic-techno piece ‘No Future’, which closes the release, grabs attention with its
striking bell hits, distorted snares and stretching white noise builds.
Robben ‘Resilience’ drops on BTRAX Records on 22nd November 2019.

https://www.btrax.fr
https://www.facebook.com/btrax.records/
https://www.facebook.com/RobMaloneDj/
https://www.facebook.com/benmendj
https://www.facebook.com/scanxmusic/
https://www.facebook.com/ferdinandprairie

Tracklist:
1. Resilience (Original Mix)
2. Resilience (Scan X Remix)
3. Resilience (Ferdinand Prairie Remix)
4. No future (Original Mix)

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Artist: Orlando Voorn
Title: Marching Through the Underground EP inc. Altroy & Robben Remixes
Label: BTRAX Records – Cat. No.: BTX016
Release: May 1st 2020
Mastering by Sultana Mastering
Digital distribution by EPM
PR by Dispersion PR
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DJ & MediaFeedback
Laurent Garnier "Very cool release"
Marcel Dettmann, Slam (Soma), TWR72 
Santiago Salazar (DJ S2) "Yes! Altroy remix is dope!" 
Thor "Outstanding release" 
Brothers Black "That Robben remix!!!" 
Volvox "Haunting" Tensal "1 for me ,thx" 
Pariah "Marching Through The Underground is absolutely amazing!" 
Cabasa ("Altroy Remix is nice!"
Claire Morgan "Open your eyes is awesome, thank you ￼:)" 
Nice Radio "Solid Techno Ep ! Good stuff by the artists. Full Support !" 
Radio Partygroove "Robben Remix for me!!! super hot!"
Moskalus "Bomb!!!!" 
Transition Show (Dublab) "Voorn always delivers. Full support!" DeepRhythms.com "Superb bangers from a legendary producer. The remixes are class too!" Clubbing Spain "Super raw"

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Ben Men and Rob Malone’s BTRAX Records welcome the legendary Orlando Voorn for a first EP on the label that features remixes from Altroy & Robben and a track co-produced with Ricky Sinz.

Orlando Voorn is a Dutchman who has long provided a key link to Detroit techno in the States. He has released on the likes of Kevin Saunderson’s KMS and Derrick May’s Fragile as well as having collaborated with Juan Atkins and Blake Baxter. Famous for his ability to make anything from drum &bass to ambient, electro to hip hop and of course quality house and techno, he has come through once again on this latest missive.

‘Marching Through the Underground’ gets things underway in electrifying fashion with its grinding electro grooves and sci-fi chords. It harks back to the earliest days of Cybertron and is a future-retro classic in the making.
‘Open Your Eyes’ features Ricky Sinz, a Chicagoan techno producer and DJ and boss of Sin Factory Records. The track is dark, pounding and filled with tension from the eerie synths that ring out into wide open industrial spaces. It’s a perfect warehouse track, and ‘Monotone Solution’ continues in that vibe with frazzled synths taking you down a shadowy techno rabbit hole that is hypnotic and atmospheric.

Altroy is the pseudonym for TJ Hicks, an American producer, composer and artist born in Harlem and based in Vienna. He tackles ‘Monotone Solution’ and turns it into an intense and high-pressure groove with creepy sound effects and shuffling drums that take you for a trip. Last of all, Robben reworks the same track into something designed to get people on their toes, with crisp boom-bap drums and burrowing acid.

These are four tasteful techno tracks that bring plenty of class to the club.
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Tracklist:
1. Orlando Voorn – Marching Through the Underground 
2. Orlando Voorn feat. Ricky Sinz – Open Your Eyes 
3. Orlando Voorn – Monotone Solution 
4. Orlando Voorn – Monotone Solution (Altroy remix) 5
5. Orlando Voorn – Monotone Solution (Robben remix)
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Artist: Ben Men
Title: Pequetita EP inc. Mumbaata, Dj Mau Mau & Anderson Noise Remixes
Label: BTRAX records – Cat. No.: BTX017
Release: Sept 2020
Mastering by Sultana Mastering
Digital distribution by EPM
PR by Dispersion PR

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Rob Malone release his first EP under BTRAX label. Inspired by the landscape of Detroit city and by the music he grew up with, "Bravery" EP is dedicated to the Motor City and the people who laid the techno scene’s groundwork. Iconic electronic artists as Thomas Barnett & Orlando Voorn delivered stunning remixes.

Artist: Rob Malone
Title: Bravery EP inc. Thomas Barnett & Orlando Voorn Remixes
Label: BTRAX Records – Cat. No.: BTX018
Release: March, 26th 2021
Mastering by Sultana Mastering
Digital distribution by EPM
PR by Dispersion PR
Management by Electropical Booking

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From 2001 to 2019, BTRAX was hosted at legendary REX Club where we organized the BTRAX Parties with major french and international artists such as Extrawelt, Dominik Eulberg, Gregor Tresher, Steve Rachmad, Etapp Kyle, Dasha Rush, Psyk, Christian Smith, Len Faki, Marc Romboy, Fairmont, Reinhard Voigt, Guy Gerber, Slam, Marc Houle, Hobo, Dusty Kid, Pig & Dan, Blake Baxter, X Pansul, The Youngsters, Scan 7, Chris Liebing, Pascal Feos, Monika Kruse, Beroshima, Valentino Kanzyani, Deetron, Anderson Noise, Mau Mau, Kammy, Renato Ratier, Eli Iwasa, Oscar Bueno, Laurent Ho, Maxime Dangles, Traumer, Jack de Marseille, Master H, Melle Caro, Marc Antona, Pacman, DJ Deep, Rodriguez Jr... 

Also 7 years residency at the Nouveau Casino with BTRAX & SQUEEZE parties , resident of the almighty What's Up Bar - La Bastille in the nineties.

Founded in Paris 2003, the label BTRAX records is Ben Men, Rob Malone & Tarlouf X association. With a strong background rich of experiences as djs, party organisers and record dealer, sharp and integral in their musical choices, these activists of the french electronic music scene produce reputed international artists such as the legendary Scan 7 of Detroit, Dj Mau Mau, Mr C, Dj Mary, Leandro Gamez, Vince Watson, Scan X, Electric Rescue...

It was also Statik and Basement Trax record shops from 1996 to 2002.

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