Ben Sims at Electric City - This Thursday

[Electric City]

Thursday July 22nd

Ben Sims [Theory - UK]
Alan & Paul Smith [Electric Circus - Waterford]

Admission e12 / e10 with ticket.

Tickets available from Selectah Records in Temple Bar.

Ben Sims is one of the UK's biggest techno exports and is much in demand
both as a DJ and producer. Not a regular visitor to Dublin, this will be
only Bens second time to play in the capital. He currently runs three labels
[Ingoma, Theory, Native] each one with a distinctive sound, ranging from
funk driven techno and house to melodic electronica. These labels
encapsulate perfectly the sound of Ben Sims DJ sets. Anyone who has heard
the killer 'Escapism' mix CD by Ben will know what's in store for this
Thursday - we can't wait to see Ben tear the club up this week - get there
early!

In a genre that propagates soundalikes Ben's productions have gained
widespread attention and feature regularly in the boxes of his own personal
heroes like Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills and Rolando, whilst
also attracting crossover appeal that has seen Carl Cox, Fergie, and even
the world's number 1 DJ Tiesto drop the odd Sims cut [we can forgive him
that!]. He has remixed Jeff Mills, Green Velvet, Blake Baxter, Marco Bailey,
Chris Liebing and Adam Beyer and has a forthcoming debut artist album on the
forward-thinking UK label Peacefrog.

The past six years have seen Ben constantly touring and tearing up dance
floors at legendary clubs & parties such as Liquid Room, Sonar, Limelight,
Rex, Zouk, I Love Techno and Tresor. He has also recorded three mix CD's
showcasing his natural DJ talent. This year he plans to follow up those
releases with new mixes for both Billy Nasty's 'Torture Chamber' series and
Trust the DJ. His tight, energetic and skilful brand of deck wizardry is not
to be missed.

Well, playing before Ben we have the most unlikeliest looking twins since
Arnie found Danny, Alan & Paul 'Well' Smith. This is their first appearance
at the club since they played a fine warm up set to Pete Donaldson back in
January. Expect more of the same this week when they're sure to play an
excellent selection of deep minimal techno going all the way from Robag
Wruhme to Chain Reaction and back again. The Smith Bros. have gone from
strength to strength since opening up their chain of exclusive gents
clothing outfitters and their landmark store in the Ilac Centre is a regular
shopping haunt for dandy It-Boys, minimal techno DJs and off-duty policemen.
These boyos are easily two of the best DJ's around so do try get down early
to check them out. They really are the cheese!

Electric City
Thursday's at Metropolitan
11 Eden Quay, Dublin 1.
Doors - 11 until late
Supported by Tiger Beer - Bottles of Tiger Beer e3.50

Forthcoming Guests:

July 29th - e6 / e5

Jamie Behan [Bastardo Electrico - Cork]
thatboytim [Takeover Records - Belfast]

August 5th : e7 / e5 with flyer

Renato Bastos [Pertence Recordings - Brazil]
Barry O'Donovan [Electric City]
Simon Conway [electricity]

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[slavestudios]

wish i could be there for me hero... :cry:

Good Luck Y'All :clap:

[Lisa Lavish]

Cant wait not long now

[lilbeefer]

ben sims, seen him 3 times and loved it everytime. Might turn up, I live next door :)

[slavestudios]

i cant go

[Lisa Lavish]

well what can I say,the man is legendary!Thought he played an awesome set :clap: 1 of the best nights Ive had out in electric city!&thats saying something because electric city put on nothing but top nights week in week out.

[H3lx]

ive heard better from him from the sets ive downloaded to be honest. he was well decent like, but i still left feeling he was capable of more imo

also the sound was so loud on the dance floor that it hurt

again

[Frank Dogshit]

you still a huge fan of picotto H3lx??

[detfella]

i'd love to have seen sims. without orbit in leeds, no one is able to book him anymore

[Frank Dogshit]

you never know,he might well make an appearence up north before the years out. ;)

[H3lx]

you still a huge fan of picotto H3lx??

not for 2/3 years

still find it hillarious when people like sims play picotto tunes and the crowd goes off in right style (ie on thursday night)

always entertaining

[Frank Dogshit]

what picotto tune did he play then?

[jock]

I heard it was Pulsar on another board, might have made some impression on Ben whilst getting him to play at Meganite :lol: :roll: ;)

Cant wait to see Sims again, hopefully be able to see him somewhere other than split soon as i always felt he was taking it easy there, as it was his own night!

[Stella Boy]

Seen Sims a fair few times now and he's been spot on every time but I would like to see him doing one of his acid house sets he's been known to do. Now that would really interest me

[Frank Dogshit]

really lookin forward to seeing sims in ibiza,the thought of sims hammering it at 6am as the sun comes up sounds good to me. :lol:

saw about 30 mins of his acid house set at split the last time,bloody good it was too.
:clap:

[Lisa Lavish]

ive heard better from him from the sets ive downloaded to be honest. he was well decent like, but i still left feeling he was capable of more imo

also the sound was so loud on the dance floor that it hurt

again

yeh but trying to impress u is like trying to impress a rock :lol:

[H3lx]

what picotto tune did he play then?

mauro picotto - tao tek

beyer played it in the temple bar music center on saturday as well

still not quite as funny as mills and garnier playing playing footsie, or clarke playing awesome...

but none of them will ever touch richie hawtin playing a mario piu tune (mattamos) at creamfields 2001 for complete and utter "look at the purists dance, if only they knew" entertainment

[Frank Dogshit]

mathmos is a fukin brilliant track.

he played it at sankeys a couple of years ago aswell!

even a purist couldnt slate that tune even if they knew it was piu. :lol:

[H3lx]

yup, ****ing belter of a tune

i always delight in telling purists tracks theyre giving it loads to are by artists they claim to hate, and constantly call shite

at liebing in the music center there last october, liebing dropped picotto - amazing, and christ ive never seen anywhere go off like it

the way i see it is that a decent tunes a decent tune, whoever its by

tho i think tao tek and amazing are dirt meself

lol

[jock]

Yeah but there is a difference between a dj playing a track by someone and the actual dj themselves.

Listening to some of Picotto's new stuff, it has its moments and I can see why Sims/Mills have played it.

But really who gives a ****. What winds me up more is when people like mills still bang out ****ing DK8, you just think WTF????