Ben Fusion  
EUPHORIC TRANCE
 
Ben Fusion is one of the UK's hottest new talent. With the right breaks and bookings, Ben is destined for a bright DJ future.

A skillful Trance mixer wanting to play all kinds of Trance venues with flexible rates - looking for an agent too.

Check one of his latest demos here.

 
 
It started way back in 1992 when Ben Fusion discovered dance music. After the acid house phase of the late 80's / early 90's Ben was still at school, when someone brought to his attention a early Carl Cox mix tape - "it was fantastic, like nothing I had ever heard before, continuous dance musicmixed by one man!", the seed was sown and before long Ben had saved some money for a pair of second-hand decks and a old broken mixer that a friend gave to him, with the help from his father they managed to fix the mixer and he started buying records. "I was quite fortunate because at the time I waa buying my early records I didn't realise that they would turn out to be true classics today!". Ben decided to take things a step further "I was tired of being restrained just to my bedroom, I wanted to play on a bigger stage", with his mixing ability finally at a high level Ben decided to make mix tapes, which he distributed between friends and record shops, gaining positive feed-back he sent tapes to local promoters, "because I was young a lot of promoters at the time didn't really take me seriously and had thought I had copied the tapes from other well known dj's - it was a frustrating time for me!". So Ben decided to do private house parties gaining a reputation for working the crowd. "it's much harder to please a smaller number of people than a big crowd being a lot more intimate, but I think this has put me in good stead".

By now Ben was playing Hardcore and receiving a few bookings from his hard work, playing at RUN TO THE SUN in  Newquay (in 2007 being headlined by Above & Beyond) . "It was a real eye opener to play to so many people but good experience as I learned how to  mix on a 'big rig'". Then Ben won the HELTER SKELTER 'BREAKING NEW TALENT' competition at Milton Keynes, "it was amazing playing in-between big  a-list dj's, I was offered lots of work on the back of it, but unfortately  because I was still quite young I couldn't drive, the clubs where miles from my home!". Not disheartened Ben continued to play Hardcore until a party one night, "I was playing at a beach party with about 100 people dancing when  I thought that Hardcore was turning a bit stale and running out of ideas".


This prompted a re-think in direction. Old enough to do the things he  wanted Ben decided to travel and set off for Australia. "That's where I  discovered Trance and Progressive House", Ben attended a Sasha gig at the Home club  inSydney, "it totally blew me away! right then I knew what I wanted from dance music". Having dabbled in Progressive House Ben slowly moved into Trance  and more importantly Euphoric Trance "it has the atmosphere and the energy of Hardcore but with a more mature / sophisticated sound". Since returning  Ben has taken things slow with only a hand full of bookings in this genre.  "It's a competitive scene, with, I feel the best dj's in the world playing  Trance, I have to be better and more importantly different than them to succeed, that's why I play Trance, it gives me more scope to structure a sound that is my own!". Ben now feels he is ready to step-up to the masses with his sound, and with influences ranging from Carl Cox to Sasha through to Oakenfold, Above and Beyond, Hybrid and Sander Van Doorn there is no mistaking that you have listened to BEN FUSION.
 
 
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