Heres another top set from the UK's finest.

What happens when you mix up one of the biggest labels, an ex-steelworks, a veritable banquet of hard as nails DJs, an audio visual feast of mammoth expense and oh, around about 5,000 mental clubbers? A mission. A Magna Mission...

Saturday the 1st Of May saw Tidy take control of the Magna Centre and open its massive gates to 5,000 clubbers, all hell bent on having one crazy Magna Mission to Planet Tidy. It was one mad mission, I can tell you that.

This time round, Magna sported the main Tidy arena:
Yoji Biomehanika, Eddie Halliwell, Lisa Lashes, Tidy Boys, Andy Farley, BK, Amber D and the Tidy Boys;

the Face Of Steel zone: Guy McAffer (Live), Nick Sentience (Live), Anne Savage, Paul Glazby, Mark EG, Tara Reynolds and Paul Maddox;

the Alpha Zone (Lunar Pod 1): a hard trance arena hosted by Lee Haslam, who is joined by Matt Hardwick, Guyver, Andi Durrant and Paul Kershaw;

Lunar Pod 2: featuring funky beats from The Trophy Twins, Oliver Lang, Hatty Lovehearts and Onephatbillie;

and finally the Earths Core: the sound of hardcore brought to you by Brisk, Scott Brown, Stu Allan, Ham Dougal, DJ Unknown, Asa, Dodgee and MCs Wotsee, Storm and Whizkid.

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Ben Keen, aka BK, is recognized the world over as the most successful and prolific hard dance producer of all time. With worldwide dance chart hits like ‘Music Is Moving’, ‘Revolution’, and the Hard Beat EP series, BK has reinvented the genre of hard house and breathed new life into the style. And in addition to having conquered the world of hard house with his production skills, BK is positioned to take over the global DJ scene, ranking since 2001 as one of DJmag’s top 50 international DJs. He calls his sound “ever-changing and full of energy,” with innovative infusions of trance and techno that redefine the hard house style. He believes that “the sound of hard house has definitely changed—it’s got to,” and whether producing or playing, the sounds that BK creates represent the future of the genre.

BK began his production career at age 16 as a trainee engineer at a London studio and gradually progressed into writing music for film and television. In his spare time, he used the studio’s equipment to experiment with his own sounds, and it was later, at Media Records, that he began producing original tracks. BK later joined Nukleuz Records and immediately became known for his profusion of definitive hard house tracks, releases that helped Nukluez to become the world’s No. 1 selling hard house label. Since 1995, BK has produced more than one hundred 12”s and remixes, including remixes of Mario Piu (‘The Vision’), Mauro Piccotto (‘Iguana’), Storm (‘Storm Animal’), DT8 (‘Destination’), and Tony De Vit (‘I Don’t Care’), and recorded tracks for labels ranging from Positiva, Data, and Ministry of Sound to NuLife, Ffrr, and Tidy. Many of his tracks have become UK Top 10 hits, but BK is best known for ‘Revolution’, which with the support of Judge Jules and Dave Pearce, entered BBC Radio One’s daytime rotation in 2002—a singular accomplishment for a hard house track. BK’s albums and compilations have also garnered huge success, with his series of Nukleuz Presents compilations (including HardHouse Anthems) earning multiple Mixmag “Album of the Year” awards and the 2003 release Extreme Euphoria Mixed By Lisa Lashes, BK, & The Tidy Boys on track to become the highest-selling hard house album ever.

BK’s tracks are irresistible to both clubbers and critics, but the true measure of his talent can be seen in the number of fellow producers and DJs who clamour for a slice of BK’s skills. The admiration of his peers is typified by such comments as, “If one man has single-handedly shaped what our world is dancing to, then it’s he.” (Mixmag, June 2002) This feeling is evident in the tracks found on BK’s 2003 solo album, Klub Kollaborations, which represent cooperative projects with eleven of the world’s top producers, including Andy Farley, Lab4, Christopher Lawrence, Paul Glazby, and Rob Tissera.

In 1999, BK enlarged his creative scope to include the DJ circuit, proving that his talents are not restricted to the studio alone. By 2000, BK was already playing clubs around the world, headlining and appearing at all of the biggest dance events, including Dance Valley (100,000 people), Global Gathering UK, Gatecrasher Summer Sound System UK, Impulse NL, Frantic HardHouse Academy UK, Creamfields UK, Godskitchen NEC UK, Judgement Sunday Ibiza, Lashed in Ibiza, Gallery UK, Slinky UK, and Code Japan. He currently calls three of the most forward-thinking UK hard dance events home, holding residencies at Trade, Frantic’s Convergence, and Nukleuz’s Riot!. Much of his success is due to the same experimental approach that he utilizes in the studio. “As a DJ, I’ve been looking at other genres, and I’ve found that kind of music is something I like and that I like to play, and no one’s complained!”

In an extremely short period of time, BK has become recognized as not only a genre-defining producer, but also an influential DJ in the hard dance scene. His prodigious talents have created a new direction for the future of hard house, but BK is not ready to stop yet. “I’ve made every sort of music in the past, even stuff for television commercials. I’ve mic’d up a 60-piece orchestra at Abbey Road… And now I want to start bringing that into the kind of tracks I do now. Do that, but make it danceable and club-friendly—find a new sound for myself.”

Profile Courtesy of Tidy Trax

Nice

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wish I had been there but going to the weekender

thanks

warezguy edit : Yellow card given; read the rules to find out why!

Bangin!!

warezguy edit : Yellow card given; read the rules to find out why!

bk was great on that night,cheers

thanks. i will check this out

never heard of it :s thnx anyway

always good to hear bk's sets. thanks

Nice one, BK always rocks the party. Wanting one of his sets for ages.

nice one

In my memorie BK knows how to spin his records. Hope he's still great!

thanks man