It’s been a big year for Breach, a.k.a. Ben Westbeech. His track ‘Jack’ hasn’t just blown up on dancefl¬oors across the globe: it’s laid waste to them. In the process, ‘Jack’ got to Number 9 in the UK charts. Not bad considering Westbeech has always seen Breach as an underground thing. “It’s been wonderful having a record that's commercially successful,” he says. “The thing is not to lose sight of why you started making music in the rst place. I wasn’t trying to get in the Top Ten. I just care about making deep records that I get off on.” Take Breach’s DJ Kicks mix, for example. If all you know about Breach is ‘Jack’, you’re in for a surprise. Likewise, if you’re familiar with Westbeech as a vocalist you might have to have a bit of a reappraisal. “This is the music that I love, the kind of thing that I play when I DJ,” explains Westbeech. “I made ‘Jack’ and I play it, but there’s a lot more to the music I love than that.” The mix opens with the spooked atmospherics of ‘Prince Of The Immortal Woods’ by Innercity, before shifting into the soft, rounded bassline and euphoric strings of ‘Triangle Vision’ by Wire People and the 4AM jacking house groove that is Beesmunt Soundsystem’s ‘All Day’. ‘It Is What It Is’ by Fred P is an important point in the set. The echoes of Detroit techno sum up where Westbeech’s head is at right now. Other highlights include ‘Attention Seeker’ by Iron Galaxy and ‘How’s The Music’ by Winx, better know as Josh Wink. Westbeech’s exclusive track is ‘Beroving’, which means ‘deprivation’ in Dutch. It’s a beautiful, evocative sound from the interface of house and techno, a world away from ‘Jack’, but every bit as good. “Since ‘Jack’s blown, I’ve been gigging so much, just on the road all the time. My life is missing sleep. I’m deprived of making music and being in the studio. I put this mix together and did the track in such a short space of time. I’m deprived of time at the moment so it seemed like a tting word.”