Simon Mills is One Half of Bent. Or should that be that One Half of Bent is Simon Mills. Either way, Mills and (‘the other half of Bent’) Neil ‘Nail’ Tolliday, collectively as Bent, first sneaked onto stereos in 1999 with the infectious shuffle of ‘I love my man’, quickly garnering a reputation for being thrift store record sampling alchemists, turning musty grooves into redefined downtempo gold. 
 The natural ability to shift from sounds for beach sunsets to the sweaty dance floors of heaving metropolises soon found them called up early for creating a mix for legendary London club Fabric’s CD compilation series. DJ gigs across the globe followed and with it, Mills began to observe and absorb firsthand the sounds needed to craze the clubbing crowds. 
 As Bent went into hibernation, Mills, armed with an arsenal of vintage equipment and a sample-archive he collected for over three decades, stepped onto the floor with his own distinct twist on electronica, but retaining a similar Bent-like flavour as Napoleon and under his real name, before moving onto the current moniker. With 5 solo albums, a copious number of EPs (12 of which were released monthly in 2014), and many remixes for the likes of Defected, Ministry and Cafe Del Mar to name a few, the catalogue of work is continually building into a huge archive. 
 His mum might call him Simon, his mates might call him Millsy, but to most he’ll forever be known as One Half of Bent.But to be honest, what’s so wrong with that?