DESCRIPTION:
Ben Sims had his first decks at age ten. Schooled on mix tapes by the likes of Bambaata, DJ Cheese and Froggy, and with his musical roots in reggae, funk, disco, electro, rare groove and hip-hop, by his mid teens he was spinning at after-hours 'blues' houses and a few years later came the acid house explosion with pirate radio and clubs. Skip forward over 20 years and you'll find he's one of the UK's biggest techno exports and a much in demand producer.

Ben has been involved in running 9 labels over the years, (Theory, Killabite, Hardgroove, Native, Ingoma, Symbolism, Assembly, KB Records inc, Split Music), and his productions have gained widespread attention, influenced a generation and feature regularly in the boxes of his own personal favourites like Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills and Rolando, whilst also attracting crossover appeal from the likes of Carl Cox etc. He has remixed Jeff Mills, Green Velvet, Kevin Saunderson, Blake Baxter, DJ Funk, Marco Bailey, Funk D'Void, Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer plus many more and has had his tracks and remixes featured on mix cds by Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Francois Kevorkian, DJ Rush, Joey Beltram, Dave Clarke, Umek, Luke Slater, Sven Vath, Richie Hawtin and hundreds more.

The past 15 years have seen Ben constantly touring and tearing up dancefloors at legendary clubs & parties like- Liquid Room, Tokyo, Sonar, Barcelona, Limelight. NYC, Rex, Paris, Zouk, Singapore, I Love Techno, Gent, Tresor, Berlin, Awakenings, Amsterdam and Atomic Jam, Birmingham plus hundreds of others with his tight, energetic and skilful brand of 3 deck wizardry. In recent years performances as FREQUENCY 7 with Birmingham's Surgeon and KILLA PRODUCTIONS with Paul Mac have also been a regular feature on Ben's international calendar and on the stages of some of globes most respected festivals and clubs including Fabric, Monegros and Bloc.

For more info and a full interview with Ben Sims go to:

http://epm-music.com/component/fabrik/details/18/22

FB : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ben-Sims
RA : http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/bensims
Twitter : https://twitter.com/djbensims

EPM : https://www.facebook.com/EPM.Music / https://twitter.com/EPM_Music

TRACKLIST:

1.INTRO
2.ARMANDO - 100% OF DISIN' YOU/ARMANDO'S DIS MIXX - WAREHOUSE
3.FIX - FLASH - NIGHTVISION
4.BEN SIMS - WORK THAT BODY - HARDGROOVE
5.STEVE POINDEXTER - COMPUTER MADNESS - MUZIQUE *
6.BEN SIMS feat BLAKE BAXTER - I WANNA GO BACK - DRUMCODE
7.DJ SKITZO - IMPACT ZONE/PAUL MAC EDIT - THEORY
8.SURGEON - BADGER BITE - DOWNWARDS**
9.JAMES RUSKIN - WORK/STEVE RACHMAD REMIX - BLUEPRINT
10.BEN SIMS - SPECTRUM - UNRELEASED
11.ROBERT HOOD - THE FAMILY - M-PLANT
12.MARK BROOM - SATELLITE/MIX ONE - BEARDMAN
13.PAUL MAC - DRY RUN - THEORY (LATE 2011)
14.BEN SIMS - BULLET - DRUMCODE
15.FLOORPLAN - LIVING IT UP - M-PLANT
16.BEN SIMS - LOVE AND HURT - HARDGROOVE (LATE 2011)
17.PLANETARY ASSAULT SYSTEMS - RAISE UP - PEACEFROG
18.PAUL MAC - DVD CRASH - THEORY
19.FAST EDDIE - CAN U DANCE - DJ INTERNATIONAL*
20.DJ RUSH - FACE THE BASS - KNEE DEEP
21.JAMES RUSKIN AND MARK BROOM - BLACK LINES - BLUEPRINT
22.MARK BROOM - REDIAL - BEARDMAN
23.BEN SIMS - THE AFTERPARTY - DRUMCODE
24.LEE J MALCOLM - OH YEAH/SIMS ROLLING DUB - EPM MUSIC
25.SCAN MODE AND ISSIE NIXON - DEL REVES/BEN SIMS REMIX - THEORY
26.ARMANDO - WORLD UNKNOWN/MY MIXX IS DUNN - WAREHOUSE
27.JULIAN JUMPIN' PEREZ - STAND BY ME/JUMPIN' DUB - DJ INTERNATIONAL
28.FREQUENCY VS ATKINS - INDUSTRIAL METAL -- NIGHTVISION
* PAUL MAC EDIT
** KILLA PRODUCTIONS EDIT