INPUT | Benji B Presents Deviation with Benji B/ Jay Daniel/ Skepta/ Martyn

Benji B is one of the UK's most respected DJs. Renowned worldwide for his radio shows and club sets alike, he's amassed a fanbase who have come to see him as a leader in the future and soulful music movement, mixing the genres of hip hop, house, soul, funk, dubstep, and more, seamlessly taking his audience from one genre to the next.

For the past eight years he's being doing his own show on BBC 1
Xtra playing the latest and greatest music from dubstep and hiphop to house and soul and everything in between, while inviting some of the very best artists to the show for interviews and exclusive mixes ranging from Juan Atkins to J Rocc and Dorian Concept to Kode 9.

When 1Xtra launched in 2002 he was asked to present a show on Thursday nights. It soon became essential listening for music fans around the globe. Recently Benji made the move to Sundays and has recently been given an extra hour and will now broadcast from 10 pm until 1 am every Sunday night.

In October 2010, he made the move over to BBC Radio 1, where you can now catch him every Wednesday night / Thursday morning 2-4am.

As a DJ it is easier to count the countries Benji hasn't DJ'ed in than the ones he has. Every weekend he is in a different part of the world and is one of the UK's most international specialist DJs, playing regularly in the USA, Japan, the Middle East, Asia and Australia as well as all over Europe.

Alongside his weekly BBC show on Radio 1 Benji has been running his club night Deviation Sessions in the East London's Gramaphone for almost two years. Each month he installs a bespoke soundsystem on which have played the likes of Flying Lotus, J Davey, Martyn and Skream to Moodymann, Dam-Funk and many more. It is now widely regarded as one of the very best club nights in London.


Jay Daniel is one of the brightest emerging stars in the latest generation of Detroit electronic music artists. He is also a part of the legacy of the motor city sound with a mother, namely Naomi Daniel, who is the voice behind Planet-E classics' "Stars" and "Feel the Fire," both of which were produced by Carl Craig & released in the early 90's.

He holds a residency with his friend and musical guide, Kyle Hall in Detroit and has been steadily building his profile since his acclaimed debut at Movement Festival Detroit in 2012. Boiler Room called him "one of the most exciting new discoveries we made in Detroit. Jay Daniel is officially our new favorite DJ. Incredible talent", a prediction that is more than clearly holding true. Since then Jay has been working hard on developing his productions and is set to have his first release on Theo Parrish' Sound Signature in September 2013. He will round out the year with a release on Kyle Hall's Wild Oats label.


As a multi-faceted, quadruple threat artist, Skepta embodies a scene's ability to shift on its own terms. The Tottenham-raised Londoner — a product of the area's Meridian Estate after a move from east as a toddler— operated behind the scenes in grime's early days with Meridian Crew in the early 2000s as a DJ and producer, providing a backbone for his Hackney-born younger brother JME to take the mic alongside legends of the industry during an era of lyrical war, with calls for clashes maintaining the raw energy. Behind the boards for 2002's Wiley and Youngstar inspired Gun Shot Riddim and 2004's Meridian Crew-affiliated classic Private Caller, Skepta helped define the culture for years to come.

Spitting on hip-hop beats before he ever entered the booth in grime circles, Skepta unleashed his rapid flow in the mid 2000s. As the white label era shifted into flash video and digital downloads, he built a sizeable fan base. Shouting out Meridian Crew and Hackney's Roll Deep he stepped to the forefront alongside his brother, in the era of pixelated video on Nokia devices, street DVDs and Akademiks sweatsuits.

After his Boy Better Know collective emerged in 2005, Skepta's 2006 classic Duppy was a crossover moment, as grime made its steps into the mainstream. His Stageshow Riddim was another beat that an entire scene hopped on before an array BBK bangers hit the mainstream. In addition to solo albums, he approached everything with a new hunger as a new decade approached.

Even for an artist with veteran status, 2014 was a breakthrough year. The self-produced That's Not Me alongside JME embraced his legacy and beginnings in a track accompanied by an award-winning, appropriately micro budget video that homages the street DVD era. Having started his career deeply inspired by Wiley's pioneering Eskibeats, Skepta produced another modern standard and return to raw form, On A Level, for him and stepped behind the camera to direct the video and style it too.

A decade into his MC career, Skepta is bringing his worldview to a global audience in undiluted form. His fourth album Konnichawa is the sum total so far and the evolution of everything so far and, with a local and international slew of partners in 2015, the takeover is imminent.


Martijn Deykers, known professionally as Martyn, is a Dutch producer and DJ from Eindhoven. He started his career by DJing drum and bass in 1996 but began to include more of a dubstep influence after first hearing Kode9's "Sine of the Dub". He released his first 12" singles in 2005,incorporating elements of both techno and jungle. Deykers' first album, Great Lengths, was released in 2009. In 2010 he released Fabric 50, the 50th instalment of the Fabric Mix DJ series. Martyn's second studio album, Ghost People, was released in 2011.