New School Recordings

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The 10th release on Tyler Michaud’s label New School Recordings features my track with Austin Azua, entitled “Night Train”. On the remix for this release is young gun Jake Shanahan with a club groover.

Label write-up:

NSR010 – Ben Brown & Austin Azua – Night Train (Original + Jake Shanahan Remix)

Chicago based DJ-Producer Ben Brown makes his debut release on New School with this bass-heavy progressive house single! Entitled “Night Train”, this track is a collaboration with Austin Azua spanning through an interesting hybrid of melodies and low-end bass sounds. Newcomer producer Jake Shanahan provides a straight to the point groove based remix designed to wreck the club.

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16 Bit Lolitas, Ben Brown, Seneca - Spybar Chicago

After an amazing show in August of 2009, 16 Bit Lolitas are coming back with a vengeance to SpyBar on Memorial Day Weekend. Doors at 10pm. Providing support for 16 Bits are Ben Brown & Seneca 10-12:30, 16 Bit Lolitas 12:30-close.

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Links:

• 16 Bit Lolitas
• Ben Brown
• Seneca

Recent Tracks/Mixes:

Alex Dolby – Cityshark (16BL remix) by 16Bit Lolitas

Ben Brown Sense.FM 5th Anniversary Guestmix (Feb 2010) by benbrown

Download Tracks from 16 Bit Lolitas

16 Bit Lolitas Tracks on Beatport

Ben Brown Tracks on Beatport

The Ben Brown remix of Israeli producer Elegant Universe‘s “Modern Time” is out today on frisky records. Expect big room progressive house over the incredible vocal by Adir Ohayon.

Upcoming rockstar Ben Brown provides big floor sensibilities to an already large track. Top Notch talent for a ground-breaking track.

-Release Promo Pool

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Also included in this first round of remixes is Trafik‘s great remix and dub mix. The second round of remixes comes out in a few months  and includes some BIG names from the dance music scene, so keep your eye on frisky.

Here’s the youtube demo/promo video for the remix EP:

Max Demand - Roller Coaster

Out now: The Ben Brown remix of Max Demand’s track “Roller Coaster” [Proton] is now available at Beatport.com as an exclusive release. Also included in the release are remixes by Magitman and Paronator.

This release has also been featured in the Progressive House section of beatport.

Listen to samples here

1. Guy J – Lamur (Henry Saiz Remix)[Bedrock]
2. The Funky Bastard – Koalas For Breakfast (Ben Brown Remix)[Audio Logic]
3. Ben Brown – Vega [Audio Logic]
4. Presslaboys – Sturdix (Alex Kenji Dub)[Audio Therapy]
5. Derek Howell – A Bit Less This Time (Ben Brown Remix)[Polytechnic]
6. Little Boots – New In Town (Fred Falke Remix)
7. Kaskade – Be There (Presslaboys Remix)[Jamayka]
8. Groove Garcia – Minirama (Da Fresh Remix) [Khazuma]
9. Sei A – March Of The Midi [Imprime]
10. Misfitz – Want Me [Urbantorque]

Sultan [Yoshitoshi, Harem Records]

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Ben Brown [Global Underground, Black Hole, Audio Logic]

Friday, May 1, 2009

Spybar Nightclub – 646 N Franklin Chicago IL 60607

I am playing Spybar on Friday May 1st. Headlining the night is DJ and recording artist Sultan (bio/info below). I’m on the decks for the 1st half the night. Should be proper.

Ben Brown friends/fans: email “info at djbenbrown dot com” to  to be put on the guestlist.

Sultan featured Ben Brown “Nova” in his DJ charts last year, so I’m very excited to join him at Spy, which is always rocking on Friday nights.

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From the desert heat of his country of origin to the winter rigours of Canada, Sultan has travelled a road quite out of the ordinary. After living in Kuwait, Cyprus and Egypt, Sultan moved to Montreal, Canada in 1996 to pursue an education in Mechanical Engineering and Business. Inspired by the vitality of the nightlife and his passion for music, he quickly immersed himself into the house scene of his adoptive city. Little by little, his interest for structures irrepressibly shifted from engineering to music.

In 2000, his reputation took root in solid ground when Montreal’s Mix 96 radio station assigned him the 12-3 a.m. slot every Sunday night. And In July that same year, Sultan became the weekly Level resident at club Living, opening and playing alongside such DJs as Deep Dish, Sander Kleinenberg, Danny Howells, Saeed and Palash, Max Graham, Nick Warren, Lee Burridge and many more.

Following his graduation from university in the summer of 2001, and in the wake of his DJ success as resident at the internationally renown Stereo and Sona after hours, Sultan created his own studio in order to unleash his talent as a producer. Once again, the results were tremendous. His first-ever production, “Primal Instinct” was signed to Chug Records that same year and garnered much appraise. The door had opened and with great enthusiasm Sultan quickly established himself as one of the most innovative and respectable producers in the house/progressive scene. With releases on various labels including Deep Dish’s Yoshitoshi label and John Digweed’s Bedrock Breaks Label, Sultan now has more than 70 titles under his belt with releases under the aliases of Soul Tan and Jiva (Sultan and Ned Shepard), as well as numerous collaborations with Tone Depth (The Greek), TommyBoy, DJ Tarkan and Ned Shepard.

In 2003, international recognition became imminent whereas four of Sultan’s productions (including a remix) were featured on “Global Underground 25: Toronto” mixed by Deep Dish, which made its way to number one on the Billboard Dance Album Charts. In 2004 Sultan began to make his mark on the international music scene playing over thirty international tour dates across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa while maintaining a solid consistency in his productions and remixes.

2005 and 2006 have seen Sultan rise to the next level with more compilation appearances including Tiesto’s “In Search of Sunrise 4

Here’s another remix, this time of Franz Ferdinand’s “Ulysses”.  Meant to give this one a little more electro + vocal mix but it turned out to be a stripped down big room progressive track (don’t ask me how), hence the “Stadium Mix” title

Listen to Franz Ferdinand – “Ulysses” (Ben Brown Stadium Mix):

[audio:Franz_Ferdinand-Ulysses(Ben_Brown_Stadium_Mix).mp3]

And, dub below=same track minus the vox

Franz Ferdinand – “Ulysses” (Ben Brown Stadium Dub):

[audio:Franz_Ferdinand-Ulysses(Ben_Brown_Dub_Mix).mp3]

Here’s the video of “Ulysses”:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdGGqScwe4w[/youtube]

If demand is high enough, I’ll post free hiqh quality mp3s for download, so let me know in comments below if you dig it.

Ben Brown Remix

Kanye West - Love Lockdown (Ben Brown Remix)

Kanye West released remix parts for Love Lockdown in Fall 0f 2008. I picked up the remix stems up and came up with this little jam. I’d say its a groovey prog houser, but genres lines can be tricky.. definitely a little more mainstream appeal than most of my other work.

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Sample the Ben Brown Love Lockdown Remix:

[audio: Kanye_West-Love_Lockdown_Ben_Brown_Remix_128.mp3]

Downloads:

• Regular Quality: Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Ben Brown Remix) 128 Mp3
• Medium Quality: Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Ben Brown Remix) 320 Mp3
• High Quality(Wav): Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Ben Brown Remix) Wav
• Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Ben Brown Remix) Torrent

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