Benjamin Bates komt naar Dalton Voorburg
Benjamin Bates' nieuwe album: Recyclomania
BOVENBOUW OPGELET!
De ambassadeur van dance4Life, DJ Benjamin Bates, zal tijdens het schoolfeest in Locomotion niet alleen een geweldige DJ-set weggeven, maar ook het opgehaalde bedrag bekend maken. Oftewel wat haalt Dalton Voorburg op voor de strijd tegen HIV en aids?
Personal message van Benjamin Bates
Het is alweer bijna 17 december, en dus ook bijna tijd voor het Dance4Life 'Megala' in de Locomotion! Ik ben heel benieuwd naar de sponsoracties die jullie aan het bedenken zijn, en zal voor mijn deejay-set van die avond (een prijs/prijzen) uitreiken aan diegenen met het beste / meest originele idee.
Succes, en tot de 17de!
Benjamin Bates
Wil jij ook alvast een beetje kennismaken met Benjamin Bates? Bekijk dan rechts zijn website (waar ook het feest in Locomotion is aangekondigd) of lees zijn biografie hieronder.
WIE IS BENJAMIN BATES?
Bates45 is a project by electronic audio artist Benjamin Bates (Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 1976).
It showcases the sound Benjamin plays when he’s deejaying. Where hisregular productions are heavily influenced by pop and alternative music, thisproject takes a totally different approach and is solely aimed at massive dancefloor response.
The Bates45 moniker was used as early as Benjamin’s first release“Locked up” (the anthem of the InnerCity party in Amsterdam RAI) and has beenlurking in the shadows for quite some time. In 2008, Benjamin decided it wastime to split things up. “It was just getting too confusing for everyone,”Benjamin explains, “especially with the release of my second artist album‘Recyclomania’. People were wondering whether I would be singing whenever Istepped into a deejay booth. I needed a way to let people know what to expectfrom me. It was the logical thing to do to dust off the Bates45 project thathad been my ‘dance floor’ project all the time anyway.”
it seems like a smart move, as the first official Bates45 release“Watch you dance” was immediately picked up by Pete Tong for his Essential mixon BBC radio 1 and played by lots of international jocks worldwide. This newmixture of various shades of modern electronica has created lots of greatopportunities even in the first year of its existence; remixing some big namesas well as a collaboration with NYC based writer Carol Mirakove.
Benjamin on the future: “As i am taking the songs I normally do moreand more into a live environment, I will make sure to keep the Bates45 projectup and running to cause some serious dance floor mayhem when I’m out theredeejaying. It has been the best thing in years for me, splitting things up. Ifeel more freedom on both sides at the moment and I am just bursting withinspiration”.
DISCOGRAFIE
2002
Locked Up (Innercity anthem)
2003
Thin Time / One my one
No Angel
Lost myself in the way you close your eyes
Whole
2005
The Manimal / 16!
Music Nobody Likes EP (Off / Shelter)
End of Beginning EP (Backtracking / Pure)
2007
On My Feet (This world needs more people like you) (Dance4Life anthem)
Two Flies
Forever Running
INTERVIEW
Zie hier het interview met Benjamin Bates voor Dance4Life.
Bekijk hier de videoclip van "On My Feet" van Benjamin Bates. Dit nummer is in 2007 gekozen als titeltrack voor Dance4Life.