It sounds glamorous, globetrotting from one exotic location to the next, stopping off in some far-flung destination to be feted like a rock star, before moving on like the Littlest Hobo to start all over again.

If only that was true, laughs hard house supremo Ben Keen who, under his alias BK, has produced and remixed hundreds of the most influential hard dance tracks of the past decade.

When the Londoner arrives in Hull tomorrow to launch the newest addition to the city's nightlife, the Energize night at Anlaby Road's reborn Emporium venue, it will be wedged in between flying visits to Singapore, Italy and Andorra – making the in-demand DJ a very busy boy.

"Flying visits are exactly right," says the producer. "I've actually just got back from Singapore. I think I was there for about 12 hours. It was literally in and out. I think the flight and the travelling was longer than the gig. It can be very tiring."

Not that he's complaining. Ben knows he's in a privileged position being able to play the music he loves for audiences all around the world.

"I'm living every DJ's dream," says the likeable 36-year-old. "I get to do the job I love, playing the music I love and the music that I've made to audiences to see how they react.

"The best feeling is when you've been working in the studio on something and take it out to the clubs and get a huge reaction. People usually only go mad for the old favourites, tunes they already know, so when they react to something they've never heard before – you know you're on to a winner.

"I'm looking forward to Hull. You can't beat a good northern audience. They're always up for a good night."

The jet-set lifestyle is a long way from where Ben set out as a teenage tea-boy in a local commercial studio – watching the professionals create music for everything from major movies to coffee commercials.

"I used to sneak back into the studio at night and use all the equipment to make my own dance music," he says.

"I don't know why I was always into the harder end of the dance scene. Hardcore was just the first kind of dance I was introduced to, back in the old rave days, and it stuck with me.

"That was the kind of music I loved and the kind of music I wanted to make. I've been lucky I've been able to make it my career."

And it's been some career. As a producer, he's arranged and remixed literally hundreds of tunes for other artists and will release his fourth album, Pandemic, with his long-term friend and fellow DJ Anne Savage next month.

But with such a long CV, he admits it's often hard to keep a track on everything he's done.

"Oh, I get that all the time," he says. "Sometimes I'll go up to the DJ in a club and say 'this is good, what is it?' and they'll turn around and say 'are you taking the Michael? It's one of yours'.

"It's difficult to keep track sometimes. But it means I tend to play my stuff later than everyone else because I'm always on the look out for what other DJs are doing."

Ben Keen plays at Energize at The Emporium, Anlaby Road, Hull, Friday, March 5, from 10pm to 4am. Entry costs £10 on the door.