Ben Watt, a musician, DJ, and record producer, began recording in the early 1980s, eventually joining forces with vocalist (and now spouse) Tracey Thorn in 1982 . The duo wrote and recorded 9 studio albums together as Everything but the Girl, achieving several UK Top 10 singles and albums and a global and US Billboard Hot 100 number 2 ("Missing") in 1995, and covering genres such as alt-pop and electronica (including "Protection" with Massive Attack).

In 1998 Ben Watt established the London deep house Sunday club and compilation series, "Lazy Dog" with Jay Hannan, with a twice monthly night at the tiny Notting Hill Arts Club in west London. It became so popular that clubbers (including this author) had to queue for hours to get in, the queue becoming almost as famous as the club itself. The compilations Lazy Dog Vol 1 (2000) and Lazy Dog Vol 2 (2002) are collections of the key tracks from the night, each selling over 50,000 copies. Watt also turned out an accompanying string of dancefloor remixes for artists such as Sade, Sunshine Anderson and Zero 7. Lazy Dog's finale was on 16th May 2003, at second home The End in central London, Watt and Hannan sharing a joint desire to move onto new projects, and leave Lazy Dog as a legend in London's clubland history.

These new projects included the launch, in April 2003, of Watt's own independent record label and club night, "Buzzin' Fly", which also produced a series of mix CDs (Buzzin’ Fly, volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4). The label is home to Justin Martin (breakthrough DJ nominee at House Music Awards 2004 and 2005), French-Portuguese trio Rodamaal, Lyon's Manoo and Francois A and Portugal’s Darkmountaingroup. Watt also records his own club-oriented productions for the label including best-sellers 'Lone Cat' (2003), 'A Stronger Man' (2004), 'Pop A Cap in Yo Ass' (2005) and 'Just a Blip' (2007). Buzzin' Fly won Best Breakthrough Label at the House Music Awards 2004 and was nominated at Best British Label in the DJ Magazine awards in 2007.

For 3 years from 2002 until his resignation in 2005, Watt was part owner-founder of new West London nightclubs Cherry Jam, whose intimate surroundings hosted packed underground club nights as well as the Libertines' first official debut show, art exhibitions and the long-running spoken word night, Book Slam, and Neighbourhood, which hosted the Rough Trade Records 25th Anniversary, the inaugural prestigious House Music Awards and a string of international DJs (including the sublime Groove Armada) who guested at Watt's own in-house nights.

2005 saw Watt begin to front Buzzin’ Fly’s two new London residencies – monthly underground Sundays at Plastic People in Hoxton, and quarterly events at The End. In 2007 he also launched a sub-label of Buzzin' Fly called Strange Feeling Records, a home to alt-indie with first signings Figurines, from Copenhagen, and Hungarian trio The Unbending Trees. Now firmly established as a central figure on London's club scene, Watt also DJs all over Europe, Australia and North America with regular sell-out shows in many metropolitan cities.