As we conclude 2024, Ben Lawrence makes his podcast debut for us. In his introduction, he shares his passion for the distinctive baselines and engaging vocal characteristics of dance music. Ben has produced a 60-minute DJ mix that features a variety of dance party tracks, making it an ideal soundtrack for home gatherings this party season!

Listen to the mix

Tell us something positive to inspire future artists.

A positive message to those that have just started will be to keep practicing, keep working, be patient and most importantly always be humble. I have had many club/bar managers turn me away or not getting back to me when asking for gigs. I still get no's now but the main thing is to stay positive and stay patient as something will always come up.

What artists have inspired your DJ style?

A few of my favourite DJ's are all based in the north east/scotland so I guess that's where I take a lot of my inspiration from. However one artist in particular who has a huge amount of influence on me and that's Patrick Topping. He's introduced me to a lot of my favourite songs and always come away from his sets highly inspired.

Talk us through your podcast mix track selection.

I hope you enjoyed listening to my podcast mix as much as I did curating and recording it. The track selection process I found quite difficult because there is so many good tunes I wanted to play, but in the end I just went with 20 of my favourite songs to help portray my personality through the power of dance music.