We're delighted to start our podcast series with a 3-hour set from the legendary Ben Sims, recorded live at THEØFFICE, Scanner room on June 14, 2024, marking his debut in Yerevan, Armenia. Ben has been instrumental in shaping British dance music while staying true to techno’s roots. His dynamic mixing across 3 to 5 decks, paired with his signature fusion of groove and hard-hitting Detroit-inspired cuts, had the crowd fully immersed. We're very much looking forward to having him back behind the decks. A true legend!

From @ben-sims:
Massive thanks to the promoters, crowd and crew at THEØFFICE in Yerevan. My first exposure to the scene in Armenia was a very positive one, energetic crowd, great sound, wicked venue and met some lovely people!, hope to return for another session soon ❤️

Full track list:
https://www.theoffice.is/podcast-ben-sims

THEØFFICE [SCANNER] BEN SIMS / Podcast #001

This is the second collaboration on Offen by the French post-industrial experimental artist Thierry Mérigout of Geins't Naït, composer and multi-instrumentalist Laurent Petitgand, and the UK composer and sound designer Robin Rimbaud AKA Scanner, whose prolific catalogue includes scores for dance works by the London Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham, and who has performed and installed his music in venues ranging from the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to the Pompidou Centre in Paris and a hospital morgue in Garches.
Vitio is a repository of memory: Coastal plateaus and city streets evoked and cracked open by glowering basslines and jumbled rhythms made for ragged walking. Thierry and Laurent have been collaborating together since 1987, the year after Thierry co-founded Geins’t Naït while at the Architecture School of Nancy. Their work together is dense and textural, influenced by Situationists and Surrealists; the raw loops of Geins’t Naït meeting the musicality of Petitgand, a soundtrack composer for film, dance and theatre who has worked closely with director Wim Wenders. Thierry and Laurent first collaborated with Scanner on OFFEN015, a set of otherworldly collaged slow-mo soundscapes. Here, on tracks like Vitio and Austral, threads of sampled dialogue interweave with melodic fragments or repeating piano lines, like the sun breaking through above a tangle of golden wrack and rockweed. On Acid and 63, divine industrial shoegaze sweeps across the windscreen like water washed from trees. Elsewhere, on SIO, submerged clicks surface amid foghorn-like electrostatic charges, an introspective aeromancy. On J’Appartiens, stabs of samples dart back and forth over the ominous time keeping of a sparse beat and pulsing bass. On Sunday and NNSS, we, the invisible listeners, rise to the surface, where there is rain. Both the sounds of NNSS and the rainfall were installed in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, as captured in a lovely video made by Thierry’s daughter. Beneath the rain, in a building designed by SANAA architects, paving stones can be seen. Beneath the stones - we can only guess - a cloud. 

Emma Gilkison

Releases January 6, 2025 
written and produced by Laurent Petitgand, Robin Rimbaud alias Scanner and Geins't Naït 
piano on "Austral" by Mélaine Dalibert 
mastered by James Savage at Milk Mastering 
photo by Alix Mérigout 
design by Percy 

OFFEN CD001 

Offen Music 2024

01 Vitio (snippet)

02 Sunday (snippet)

03 Sio (snippet)

04 NNSS (snippet)

05 Acid (snippet)

06 63 (snippet)

07 Austral (snippet)

08 J'Appartiens (snippet)

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