Along with Marcel Dettmann, Len Faki and Andre Galluzzi, Klock is resident DJ at Berghain, the legendary Berlin club that houses Panoramabar and is the very nucleus of the city’s thriving party scene. As both DJs and producers, Klock and his cohorts have developed a tough, streamlined big-room sound which recalls the 90s work of Jeff Mills and Basic
Channels but invested with a certain lithe, skippy quality learned from modern-day minimal and dubstep. Having co-created the prescient Blank Scenario mini-LP with Marcel Dettmann, Klock has released several dancefloor-oriented EPs under the banner of Klockworks; last week saw the release of his debut solo album, One, an incredibly moody and stirring record that featuring the vocals of Elif Bicer and the first Ostgut Ton release since Shed’s Shedding The Past.
Ben’s FACT mix is an astonishingly pacey, energetic listen, and is positively loaded with great tracks – look out in particular for Surgeon’s killer mix of Shed and a new, as yet untitled production from Marcel Dettmann. If you want to hear contemporary techno at its most innovative and insistent, look no further. Tracklisting is below; a Q&A with Herr Clock can be found beneath that.
Tracklist:
1. Function – Variance (Regis Edit) [Sandwell District] 2. Liquid Sky – The Darkness [Filtered Vision]
3. Shed – The Lower Upside Down (Surgeon Remix) [Ostgut Ton]
4. Norman Nodge – Man Made [MDR]
5. Bandalu – Episode 07 [Foundation Sound Works]
6. The Mole – Ain’t The Way It’s Supposed To Be [Wagon Repair]
7. Surgeon – Prowler [Counterbalance]
8. Omar-S – Busaru Beats [Sound Signature]
9. Ben Klock – Grip [Ostgut Ton] 10. Levon Vincent – Six Figures [Novel Sound]
11. Steffan Linzatti – See [Stockholm LTD]
12. Steve Stoll – Run in It B1 [Proper]
13. Norman Nodge – Rush [MDR]
14. Ben Klock – Before One [Ostgut Ton]
15. Booka Shade – Sweet Lies (Radio Slave Remix) [Get Physical]
16. Marcel Dettmann – Untitled [Unreleased] 17. Kink – Blue Print [Rush Hour]
18. Roman Lindau – Simplicity [Fachwork]
Date: 02.03.2009
