you are the best Fear of Tigers, I really love your mixes and podcasts! ♥️ and you've inspired me to want to be an Electro/House/Dance DJ producer. I'll do it thanks to you!!! ♥️ I started listening to you since 2009 with your album Cossus Snufsigalonica, I LOVED IT... Thanks Fear of Tigers ♥️

What is this banger starting up around 21:0?

© 2022 Beach Lounge Records
Release date October 14th, 2022

Bittersweet Romance (feat Maria Estrella)

Approval (Original)

© 2023 Beach Lounge Records
Release date June 19th, 2023

Soundtrack

Flow (feat Maria Estrella)

You (feat Maria Estrella)

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TGL E363: Last Minute Crate Dig

Support us on patreon.com/fearoftigers for news of my new album next week...

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This week, I was caught in the city without an internet connection and all I had downloaded on my phone were some very old episodes of The Guestlist. As embarrassing as they were to hear, the music was certified flames. So I figured this week, we’d a have a little trip down memory lane to play some lesser known greats from the early days of The Guestlist, peppered with a few newer bits that are representative of where we’ve come.

Also… there is some Fear of Tigers news today. It’s a tease of a tease of a tease… but, yes there is new music coming, a new album, an accompanying audio diary and more. I talk about it in today’s episode if you’re interested to hear more. Otherwise, hold tight, all will be revealed in the coming days.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll be back very soon to reveal my new project.

My love to all

Benjamin

TGL E370: Flower Moon Flashback (+ a little news)

TGL E372: Benji's Crazy Taxi Across the Wild East

TGL E395: My Magic Number

 
Verse 1
I walk beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
and I meet myself in that field.
When my soul lies down in that grass,
the world feels too full to speak.
Ideas fade, language softens,
even the thought of “each other” loosens and dissolves.

Verse 2
I keep my eyes on the road.
I keep my passion burning.
I tell myself what I hold inside my heart—
pain and sorrow—
and I stay with it,
for the wound becomes the place where the Light enters me.

Verse 3
There is a candle in my heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a space in my soul, waiting to be filled.
I feel it.
I answer it.

Pre-Chorus
I let myself be drawn by what I love.
I unfold my own myth.
I free myself from worries
and walk through the open door.

Chorus
I rise when the world pushes me to my knees.
I wear gratitude like a cloak.
I sing like the birds sing,
unafraid of who listens.
I respond to the calls that lift my spirit.

Bridge
My wound lets the Light enter.
My spirit answers every call.
I wash myself of myself.
From the heart, I touch the sky.

Tag
I hold on and let go.
I welcome the form that returns.
Through love, I turn thorns into roses.

Verse 1
I step into the field beyond judgment,
where my whole spirit lies open and wide.
In that quiet, my soul stretches like dawn,
and words lose their shape in the light.

Verse 2
I keep my eyes steady on the path.
I guard the fire inside my chest.
I face the ache I’ve carried for years,
and I let the Light enter me through its oldest door.

Pre-Chorus
I follow the pull of what I love—
silent, sure, unmistakable.
I refuse to live inside old stories;
I unfold the myth meant for me.

Chorus
I rise when the world bends my knees.
I wrap myself in gratitude and walk on.
I sing the way birds sing—
just because it frees me.
Every call that wakes my spirit,
I answer.

Verse 3
I ask my heart what I carry—
fear, longing, hope, flame—
and I let each one teach me.
I step through open doors
and leave my old prison behind.

Bridge
I soften like melting snow,
I wash away what no longer guides me.
Only from the heart do I touch the sky.

Tag
Love turns thorns into roses.
Everything lost returns in a new form.
I stay open.
I stay awake.
I stay light.

Verse 1
I walk into the open field inside myself—
the one beyond right and wrong,
where my soul rests in tall grass
and the world grows too full for words.
Here, I remember:
I am the space, not the storm.

Verse 2
I keep my eyes aimed forward.
I tend my inner fire.
I tell my heart the truth of what I carry,
and I let the wound shine its invitation.
Light enters me where I am tender.

Pre-Chorus
I follow the pull of what I love.
It never leads me astray.
I refuse to live inside someone else’s story.
I open my own pages, my own myth.

Chorus
When life pushes me down,
I rise in the perfect position for prayer.
Gratitude wraps around me
and feeds every corner of my life.
I sing as I want to sing—
unafraid, unbound, whole.
I answer every call
that electrifies my spirit.

Verse 3
I unlock the door I once guarded.
I step out of the small room of fear
and into the wide-open space of trust.
I meet the sky with the part of me
that speaks without words.

Bridge
I melt away what dims my view.
I move from the heart
and touch horizons I once doubted.
Everything beautiful becomes clearer
when I choose to see.

Final Tag
I let go.
I hold on.
I change.
I return.
Through love, every thorn becomes a rose—
in my hands,
in my breath,
in my life.


Wrapped in gratitude

One Last Dance

Mix I did in early 2010, released on Miami Horror's 'Sometimes EP' through EMI.
Duck for the piano house breakdown!


REMIX: Miami Horror - Sometimes (Gloves Extended Mix)

I’m Benjamin, a Japanese born, UK based writer, composer and musical director. I’ve written and produced music for movies including The Shallows with Blake Lively and TV shows such as The View. I’ve created and choreographed pieces for Germany’s Next Top Model with Heidi Klum and created original compositions for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, and Avon with Yasmin Le Bon. Elsewhere my compositions and productions have been featured on a number of TV shows such as Love Island USA and movies including Rough Night with Scarlett Johansson. 

As a producer and remixer I’ve worked with and for artists such as Max Richter, Ellie Goulding, LeAnn Rimes and Kylie Minogue. In a previous life I was a DJ and music journalist, spending five years as the Managing Editor of Yahoo! Music UK, creating original content with artists including Calvin Harris and Lily Allen.

As a Musical Director I’ve recently completed a forthcoming movie called Corazon City, set in the city of San Antonio, Texas, working with a diverse range of musicians and creators from the electronic, Latino and urban community.

Outside of music I’m a former fellow of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg where I built prototypes and concepts for exhibitions and installations. I’ve also worked in the third sector on a range of issues including social mobility, the gender gap and BAME representation. I studied at The University of Westminster in London, completing a Masters Degree in Music Business Management.

I love the push and pull of collaboration and seeing a creative work take shape. My approach is based around listening to my co-creators and giving them space so the work can develop spontaneously. I love the unexpected, unplanned turns a work can take, nurturing it as it gains a momentum and energy of its own. In the words of the playwright Alan Bennett: 

“You don’t put yourself into what you write, you find yourself there.”

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