BEN SIMS pres RUN IT RED 126. OCT 2025

Dont Stop Dont Miss

Groove Plate

This mix reflects my vision of dark techno — deep, rhythmic, and hypnotic with a touch of groove.
It brings together tracks that capture the atmosphere of my sets and the energy I aim to create on the dance floor.
One hour where darkness and rhythm merge into a single flow.

Mix dark session vol. 1

First Part of my set. Second half got lost unfortunately.

Kenji Tanaka LIVE // Monopol

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No Llores por Ella

Techno featuring meticulously selected tracks from some of my personal producers, with both current and more retro sounds from my library. A common theme is long progressive rolling sequences, minimal stripped back grooves and detuned synths synonymous with the techno I love listening to

I seek to appreciate the listener and the producers of the music that have graced us with their beautiful sounds.

This mix features music from the likes of Alarico, Border One, Neo (Au), Terminus, as well as some older (sped up) tunes from the likes of Takaaki Itoh, Shxcxchcxsh and Adriana Lopez

Tracklist will be compiled and posted in the near future.

These Late Night Grooves

a hard house/hardgroove remix of the song you're not alone by olive.

olive - you're not alone (hardhouse remix)

Groove Session #2

Hardgroove. Percusiones feroces y atmósferas hipnóticas. Déjate llevar por el llamado de la jungla.

Jungla metálica Vol.1

IMPROVISED LIVE TECHNO
Berlin | Germany


If you love techno, you can't vote right. On a real techno floor, you can be free no matter who you are, if you respect the freedom of all others. Right politics stand for the opposite. if you want this culture to sustain, please get informed and stand up against this oppression.  
So FCK AFD! and be loud against all the populist, right-wing parties around the globe.  They promise you a better future, but history can teach you better. <3

🌎 Booking & Contact:
Kenji.Tanaka@loft.contact

View, Watch, Listen:
www.instagram.com/kenji_tanaka_official
www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_LIVE
www.kenjitanaka.bandcamp.com

My Family: "BonkerSquad"
👉www.soundcloud.com/maldaneben
👉www.soundcloud.com/vaianamusic
👉www.instagram.com/bonkersquadberlin

Meet me here 2025:
01.03.25 BonkerSquad Salöön Berlin
06.04.25 Sisyphos Berlin
16.05.25 Rosa Greifswald
17.05.25 Secret Rave
24.05.25 Choose Jonny Knüppel Berlin
31.05.25 Accension Festival
27.06.25 Fusion Festival Tanzwüste
26.07.25 Coucool Festival France
03.08.25 Garbicz Festival Poland
16.08.25 Compact Madnass Festival Germany
22.08.25 Entropie Festival Germany
27.09.25 Exit Hamburg
11.10.25 Monopol Basement
18.10.25 Südpol Hamburg
02.11.25 Sisyphos Berlin
21.11.25 Jonny Knüppel Berlin
06.12.25 tba Rostock 


My approach to my music: 
I love loopy and trippy techno. When dancing, I love to let go of everything around me and enter into a deeper dialogue with myself. At this stage, I am 100% in tune with myself. This works for me when the groove drives me and the elements I hear are interesting but not too intrusive. That's exactly what I love to create on the floor.

To achieve this and also to create the necessary element of surprise, I combine different loops randomly and blindly. Since I never know exactly what will happen, I am also surprised and inspired by it. 

If you want to see how it works check out my youtube channel. www.youtube.com/@KenjiTanaka_Official




My instruments:
-Drums (TR8S)
-Bass (Modular)
-Rumble Bass (TR8S)
-Atmos (Fieldrecorder, Drumrack, Ableton)
-Synth 1 (MicroMonsta 2)
-Synth 2 (Polysix VST, Ableton)
-Vocal Samples (Ableton)
-Misc Samples (TR8S)


More nerdy Information:
For each of these instruments, I have prepared about 30 different loops, most of them 1 bar long.
Using the Streamdeck and a self-built ‘Max for Live Tool’, I can select a completely random loop for each instrument with the push of a button. The tonality can be set. To make sure it’s not completely random, I can choose between different categories, such as chords/arpeggiator.
I can control the complexity of the loop using controls.

All instruments run through Ableton (RME Fireface UCXii). With the help of ‘Launchcontrol’ and 2x ‘Midifighter Twister’, I can control all the parameters that are important to me. Filters, reverb, random delay and pitch effects glue everything together.

When playing, I rely on my intuition. I can sense what should happen 2-4 bars in advance. If I feel like I want to hear a new chord pattern, I press a button and let myself be surprised. If I like it, I develop it further. If I don’t like it, I move on.

Since the whole structure is improvised, I am correspondingly excited before the gigs. Because almost nothing can be planned in advance. My biggest clue is whether I dance. If I get myself to move and get lost, I am happy with what happens.

Producer/DJ
Chicago
Instagram: matt_vega__

Ukrainian DJ based in Kyiv.
I accompany local and foreign DJs at large-scale events, and I am also a performing artist at various venues.

Inst: den.shkt
Tg: vol_jealousy

Fhase 87 'Minimalism EP' - out now: https://fanlink.tv/SYMDIGI045

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

Bookings: jeroen@sourceartists.net
Bookings (Americas): nicole@muisca.la
Links/News: https://linktr.ee/bensimsofficial

New tracks tagged #HARDGROOVE