After a 6 month hiatus for a 7 remix marathon (keep ya ears peeled they’re all out this year) Ben and Lex come back to their label APE Music with a big old banger of a tune, in fact its Tha Bizniz! Rollin’ drums that keep building all the way from the start leading you [...]
From opening the main stage at the Glade festival, winning the ‘Best Breaks Dj’ and ‘Outstanding Contribution To The Breaks Scene’ awards at the South West Breaks Awards to their Breakspoll award winning Nuskool Breaks radio show and running their own record label, Ape Music, Ben & Lex could well be the busiest boys in breaks.
The Thugs met in Brighton in 2002 after drunkenly agreeing that music at clubs should never be progressive, dull or pretentious. A few pints later and the pair realised their shared interest in broken beats, rapping and heavy basslines and they began combining their musical tastes and talents. Playing hip hop, funk and beats the [...]
Benjamin Vial is 17 when he buys his first drum-machine in 1989 and starts programming electronic tracks; he never stopped since then. He sometimes sings, too. A demo under the Temper guise in 2003 owes him a review in French magazine Trax, which depicts his music as a blend of Freq Nasty, William Orbit, Vikter [...]
Metroboy aka Ben Ervine is a producer/DJ from the southwest of England, and forms one half of award-winning breakbeat duo Ben and Lex. Metroboy’s music is a crunchy, hard-bleep style of minimal and tech house, with unflinching grooves and uplifting tones sure to lock in any dancefloor. His remix of Benjamin Vial’s “The Bass and [...]
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