Benji B is one of the world’s most respected music curators. He maintains an unrivaled level of credibility as a radio broadcaster, a DJ, a record producer, musical director and consultant. His connections are global and span across genres and generations. Benji merges the underground with the mainstream. He supports and elevates specialist music with a huge platform via his long running BBC Radio 1 show. He can spark creative chemistry between avant-garde innovators and chart-dominating stars, and he knows how to bring the energy of club culture to runways at Paris Fashion Week.

All of Benji B’s work is informed by his unique story and perspective. He could be in Malibu at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio one week and then working on re-recording Miles Davis’ material in a London studio the next, all the while exec producing for artists and working as a music supervisor for a wide range of brands. He applies an equal level of expertise when crafting the tracklist for his two-hour radio show as he does when he’s producing music with the likes of Paul Epworth, Toddla T and Yussef Dayes, fine-tuning arrangements for a DJ set with string orchestra or scheduling a line-up with KILLERWATT Sound System at Notting Hill carnival for his legendary Deviation residency in London.

As a radio DJ, Benji upholds his reputation through his passion and ear for remarkable music, and he’s become a major broadcaster on BBC Radio 1–the UK’s biggest radio platform–without ever compromising his credibility. He’s been in a radio studio every week since he was16 years old, and he’s hosted his own weekly show since August 2002, for which he digs deep to fill a two-hour slot on BBC Radio 1 with a broad range of diverse new music selections. Benji B is committed to keeping his show fresh with new releases every single week so his audience can expect to hear more new tracks than on almost any other major radio show. The show is listened to closely by DJs, A&Rs, music journalists, publicists, record labels and brands.To be played by Benji B is considered a hallmark of quality across the industry.

Through Deviation, which he co-founded with Judah Afriyie, Benji B has played an integral role in the story of London club culture, having put on countless parties which created fertile ground for music scenes to merge and evolve across genres and generations.

The first Deviation club night took place in October 2007. Benji B pioneered a boundary-breaking, multi-genre approach to programming which later became commonplace. Producers would be there to find inspiration for their next release, creating a musical feedback loop, while countless unreleased tracks became classic club bangers via the Deviation dance-floor.

Due to high demand, Deviation moved from Shoreditch’s Gramaphone basement club to bigger venues such as XOYO, Fabric and festival stages around the world. Over the years it’s hosted acts ranging from Moodymann, Josey Rebelle, Skepta, Mica Levi and Dean Blunt.

In his role as the Music Director of Louis Vuitton’s Menswear, Benji B has applied his adventurous mentality and perfectionist attitude to soundtracking fashion shows, meticulously synchronizing sound with the specific movements of every model. So far he’s stuck to an ambitious live-only policy since being appointed at LV in2018, and he’s scored shows in collaboration with MS Lauryn Hill, Saul Williams, Yasiin Bey, Dev Hynes, BADBADNOTGOOD, Detroit techno pioneers Cybotron and leading London jazz musicians like Shabaka Hutchings, Yussef Dayes and Nubya Garcia, to name a few.

Prior to Louis Vuitton Benji B was the music supervisor creating the soundtracks for Phoebe Philo from 2015-18 during her legendary tenure as creative director of Celine. Over the year she has also worked for Savile Row tailors Gieves & Hawkes, Cerrutti 1881 Paris and upcoming designer Bethany Williams. In the style world, he maintains long-running relationships with Supreme–having DJ’d for all of the Supreme store openings around the world–and theInternational Stussy Tribe, with whom he continues to work with on clothing and events.

Benji played an integral role in the creation of Kanye West’s radically experimental 2013 masterpiece Yeezus, which closed the gap between the mainstream and leftfield musical worlds. Benji acted as a consultant across the whole album, making seismic decisions on the creative process. He guided West’s musical journey by playing him Hudson Mohawke’s early records, old school grime productions, post-punk acts like ESG and Detroit house and techno. Benji enlisted cutting edge producers across the world to contribute to Yeezus, and he co-produced the album openerOn Sight with Daft Punk. At the album’s recording sessions in numerous studios and in various countries, Benji connected collaborators and advised on the album’s direction and details, often encouraging West to follow his most radical creative instincts.

Benji continued to work with Kanye West for his 2016 album Life of Pablo, producing the Larry Heard-sampling track Fade and contributing to numerous other tracks and the project as a whole. And in 2019, Benji B worked one-on-one with West for six weeks to help musically direct the Sunday Service Gospel Choir, working on repertoire and arrangements ahead of its Coachella debut.

Artists from across the spectrum gravitate towards Benji because he’s able to speak a language that’s universal to serious music lovers. The guests on his BBC Radio 1 show have included Flying Lotus to Thom Yorke and MF Doom, and more recently, Goldie, Riz Ahmed and Slowthai, who have all been warmly receptive to Benji’s respectful, laidback and thoughtful interviewing style.

These interviewing skills are rooted in radio broadcasting and production experience at every level that dates back to his teenage years, when he produced Gilles Peterson’s renowned Kiss FM show from 1996-2001. Here, he developed new and influential ways of producing episodes featuring guests such as N.E.R.D, Pharaoh Sanders, J Dilla, Chaka Khan, Chuck D and Quincy Jones.

To this day, Benji B is constantly inspired by music and driven by his powerful desire to innovate. At Louis Vuitton Men's Spring/Summer 2020 Show, which took place in Place Dauphine on the Île de la Cité in Paris, Benji worked with The Heritage Orchestra to blend classical renditions of tracks by Arca, Tyler The Creator and the Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village. With every project he works on, Benji B is ignoring dated genre boundaries and celebrating the connections between different musical worlds. He is flying the flag for music’s deep history, while also encouraging the new artists who are pushing it forward.

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