BK On BDSM, The FBI, K and GHB (Not OK)
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Monday, June 7, 2004
As one of the highest rated producers and DJs on both the gay and straight hard house scenes in Britain, BK perfectly placed to see the impact GHB is having on the club scene and he's both worried and unimpressed.
"Out of all the drugs that have been around for the last 15 years GHB seems to be the one that's causing the most problems, it's not a positive thing for the club scene at all," he says.
"In London you find GHB more on the gay scene as opposed to the (straight) hard dance scene, though up north the crowds seem generally younger, which maybe makes them more- I don't know the word- hedonistic, or stupid- Or reckless and less experienced," he continues.
"Gs one of those drugs that if you take a little bit and it doesn't work, if you take another bit, it causes the first bit to work, so you end up doing a double dose. It's not a very controllable drug. Gs been around club-land for a while it just seems like people are starting to experience more problems with it now."
Drug issues aside, BK's otherwise resolutely upbeat about the state of UK club culture as well as his own continually expanding career which now sees him hooking up with Tall Paul's label Duty Free Recordings. The first fruit of his new deal emerges shortly in the form of two track EP Making Headway, on which he's teamed up with Dave Randall to create two tracks far from the hard house style he's previously championed through Nukleuz.
"Doing music for a label that's non-hard dance specific means that my tracks will now be going out to a different market; ie their mailing list is different from Nukleuz's list," he explains.
"And joining Duty Free also feels like I've been given a seal of approval from a different scene, which is great. I'm going to be still working with Nukleuz with their DJ agency business and I'm also starting my own label with Ed Jenkins, which is going to be a part of Riot Recordings."
Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): Fergie told Skrufff recently that he got loads of grief from younger fans when he started moving towards techno, have you had any similar complaints-
BK: "Not really because I've always played techno in my sets and it's always been a part of what I do, it's just that now I've started producing some of it. I think I own more techno than I do hard dance, to be honest. And that's just because of the route from which I came into hard dance. Malcolm Duffy and Daz Sound, for example, used to play techno down at Trade, a club that's the number one hard house club; the place where hard house started. It was never just hard house at Trade."
Skrufff: Turnmills recently put Trade on hold because of issues over GHB what's your take on that-
BK: "I don't know the ins and outs though I know it wasn't directly blamed on Trade, I think GHB is just endemic throughout the whole gay scene at the moment. Every major gay club has experienced problems with it. But lots of the other major gay nights are at venues which are owned by the promoters so if the problem happens there isn't the conflict between the promoter and the owner saying 'what's going on-'"
Skrufff: You're travelling abroad constantly, while it seems to be getting more dangerous for Brits abroad by the day, are there any hotspots you're now actively avoiding-
BK: "No, I'm actually looking further afield right now. I've already played a lot in your normal DJ destinations, your Australia's and Canada's, and right now we're currently looking at a tour of India in the future. I take the view that I'm not really worried about travelling, I think you live once and should go for it, I might not get a second chance."
Skrufff: Have you played Israel, for example-
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