Ben Raabe

Born 1980 in Herdecke (Ruhr) Germany
From an early age on he began developing a great passion for electronic music. As a natural progression to his passion, he started his DJ career beginning of 2000 in his home town Bonn, Germany. From then on he quickly became Resident DJ at Xtravaganze, accumulating experience and recognition playing alongside the likes of Neon Leon and Eric D Clark. Regular gigs at several events such as the Deep-Atmosphere on the well known party boat MS Treibgut or Sternstunden parties followed.
In 2002 he won the Newcomer DJ Contest hosted by the German radio station MDR Sputnik.
Today he is a regular Guest DJ at the legendary Livingroom Club, spinning the decks alongside internationally renowned DJs such as Eddie Richards, Chris Galvin, Richard Grey, Asad Rizvi and Mastik Soul. Alongside Chris Dis, these artist mostly inspired and influenced his style of house music.
Since the beginning of 2004, together with Roland, he has been hosting the Taboo Party in association with the Label Taboo Recordings.
The coming year of 2005 will bring his first international bookings in Clubs such as Lazareti (Dubrovnik), Croatia, with surely more to follow!!
His sets can best be described as: deep, soulful, floating, passionate!! Driving house sound as well as loungy Deep house grooves are part of his extremely diverse repertoire. The individuality of his sets can be attributed to his continuous global search for new, hot vinyl.
Today I am happy to be part of a community presenting the latest fresh/funky sound to the party people. Music only then becomes boring when it stops evolving and developing itself.
2006 first release together with Roland van den Toorn as Deep Project "Fresh Air ep" Taboo Recordings