
Ben Keen aka BK is the UKs leading producer of chunky, fat, floor filling hard dance music. In 4 years as in-house producer/remixer of the worlds leading 12 label - Nukleuz - he has made over 100 12s & remixes (including Hard Beat 12s, Cortina Music Is Moving, E-Trax Lets Rock, Fergie & BK Hoovers n Horns, Storm Storm including four top 40 projects in the last year.)
BK has taken this inimitable production style into clubland and immediately translated it into a DJ performance that has made him an overnight success. A genuine star artist for the dance music age, BK is known worldwide as a floorfiller with attitude
In only the last 4 months, BK has been asked to play in 15 different countries. He is headlining tours in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA this year.
BK has mixed the hard house scene's hugely successful compilation albums:
· Hard House Anthems
· Hard House Anthems 2
· Hard House Anthems 3
· Hard House Anthems 2001
· International Hard House Anthems 1
· Nukleuz in Ibiza 2001
The above albums have sold over 200 000 copies in the UK alone.
The Hardbeat Album which celebrates the legendary and genre breaking style
of the Nukleuz Hardbeat series, all produced by BK
was released earlier
this year.
BKs talent was recognised 7 years ago when he was offered the opportunity
to become resident studio engineer/producer at Media Records. He has never
looked back. As well as the recognised Hardbeat series, BK has produced
on key hard dance labels such as:-
· Positiva
· Sound of Ministry
· Nukleuz
· Mute
· Tidy Trax
· Data
· Nu-Life
· Nebula
· Kaktai
· Tripoli Trax
· Hot Potato
Remixes such as Storm Storm for Positiva reached number 1
in the club charts and received peak time radio airing by Judge Jules
and Pete Tong. Other smash hit remixes include 666 The Devil,
Mario Piu The Vision, The Shrink R U Ready, Storm
Storm Animal, Mauro Picottos Iguana, Phat
B and the Drum Machine for Dave Pearces label Nu-Life and
Erasures Moon and Sky. BKs remix of BBEs
classic Flash and the awesome Khemical Imbalance
are both hard dance anthems.
Revolution is Ministrys Hard Dance Single of the Month August 2002 Every now and again, a unique record comes along that stops everyone in their tracks. Musically brilliant, with its own feel and sound, Revolution announces to the world that hard dance has grown up, while remaining damn good fun. Mr Keen, we salute you. Revolution has received airplay on Radio 1 by Judge Jules and Dave Pearce.
BK and Dave Randalls collaboration Ascension as part of the Nukleuz DJ Nation project hit number 40 in the UK national chart.
In Mixmag June 2002, Ed Real says If one man has single handedly shaped what our world is dancing to, then its he. This takes us back, full circle, to the days when techno, trance and nu-nrg were shaped together. Variety is, after all, the spice of life.BK guest reviews in Ministry June 2002 and constantly features in Mixmag, DJ magazine, Ministry, M8, Upfront and WAX. Interview requests continue to flood in. WAX quoted BK as Just what the DJ ordered. BK was voted 52 out of the top 100 international DJs 2001 by DJ magazine.
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