The waiting is finally over! After all the ups and downs of the past year, we can happily report that Joshua Eustis now firmly intends to continue Telefon Tel Aviv as a solo project. In order to mark his decision with a bang, the wonderful title track ‘Immolate Yourself’ is being released as the second single from the current LP. The song has been entrusted to highly acclaimed and diverse remix artists who have skilfully stripped down the epic album track to more club-friendly formats.

The A side is delivered by label-mate Thomas Muller, whose finely detailed techno soundscapes can now be enjoyed on five BPC 12″ releases. His ‘Immolate Yourself’ remix takes a much more direct approach. He reduces the lush arrangement of the original to a powerful basic framework, leaves out the vocals almost entirely, and creates a surprise when the track
crumbles into sonic chaos towards the end.

Miss Fitz aka Maayan Nidam has had singles released on labels including Raum Musik and Freak n’ Chic, and these have been remixed by renowned artists such as Ricardo Villalobos. Her version of ‘Immolate Yourself’ also makes a clear break from the album track and serves up her very own brand of abstract, dancefloor-friendly house. Once again, all the opulence of the original is thrown overboard; a dry beat is placed at the centre of the arrangement and enriched with sinuous vocals.

Ben Klock needs no further introduction – he is the epitome of the bleak, hard minimal sound. His album ‘One’ is currently available on Ostgut Ton, and as a remixer he has earned the highest acclaim for his version of Depeche Mode’s ‘Peace’. Ben’s ‘Jack Mix’ is fittingly titled and lives up to all the expectations of the name. The track is stripped back to a resounding, hammer-like beat framework – minimised for maximum effect.

BPitch legend Sascha Funke delivers a surprise with another astoundingly reduced remix, at least by his standards. He turns away from the melodic richness of his current album ‘Mango’ in favour of repetitive fragments and an extended arc of tension which will surely make his ‘Immolate Yourself’ remix a massive after-hour hit.

Minimaland Feedback: Great pack of remixes, all of them with very good quality! Our favourite? Sascha Funke mix … he just keeps getting a great deal of inspiration…

Tracklist:
a1 – Immolate Yourself (Thomas Muller Burning Man Remix)

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b1 – Immolate Yourself (Miss Fitz Remix)

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b2 – Immolate Yourself (Ben Klock’s Jack Remix)

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Digital – Immolate Yourself (Sascha Funke Digital Bonus)

BPC#207
Release Date: 11.01.2010

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

Download link here

Ben Klock February 2009 Top 10

1 Martyn – Great Length Album [3024 ]
2 Levon Vincent – Six Figures [Novel Sound ]
3 Norman Nodge – MDR 05 [MDR ]
4 Roman Lindau – Simplicity [Fachwerk Records ]
5 Steffan Linzatti – See [Stockholm LTD ]
6 Frozen Border – Frozen Border 01 [Frozen Border 01 ]
7 Loco Dice – 7 Dunham Place (M. Dettmann remix/M. Huckaby remixes) [Desolat ]
8 STP – The Fall (T++ remix) [Subsolo ]
9 Sian – Red Cloud (Minilogue remix) [Aus Music ]
10 Liquid Sky – The Darkness [Filtered Visions ]

Christian Burkhardt February 2009 Top 10

1 Federico Molinari – dos [Love Letters From Oslo ]
2 Sascha Dive – upcoming [Deep Vibes Recordings ]
3 Ray Okpara – Brothers ep [Oslo Records ]
4 Vera – Heartbreaker [Cyclical Tracks ]
5 La Peña – La Peña 4 [La Peña]
6 Christian Burkhardt – Leg back [Oslo Records ]
7 Johnny D – Touched Soul [Deep Vibes Recordings ]
8 David Labeij – My 20 Models [Remote Area ]
9 V.A. – TEN YEARS RAUM [Raum...musik ]
10 Christian Burkhardt – Tres [Love Letters From Oslo ]

Remute February 2009 Top 10

1 Remute – Condensated [Remute]
2 AFFKT & Rafa Siles – Cocofai [Barraca Music]
3 P.Toile – Tvoelf [Ostwind Records]
4 Midfield General – Error [Skint]
5 Simone Tavazzi – Space Invaders [Sleaze Records]
6 Van Hai – Mono No Aware [Meerestief Limited]
7 David Keno – Discoteca [Kindisch Records]
8 They Came From The Stars I Saw Them – Moon Song
(Holy Ghost! remix) [THISISNOTANEXIT]
9 Mr. Pauli – Le Crunch [Moustache]
10 Rescramble – 01 [Rescramble]

Mihalis Safras February 2009 Top 10

1 Caie & Lagora – Miss Wonderfull (SIS remix) [Material Series]
2 Shinedoe – Hey DJ [Area Remote]
3 Kerkez – Music Is The Answer [Saf Series]
4 Mihalis Safras & Kimono – Cable [Trapez]
5 Spektre Ft. Chelonis R. Jones – The Ride (Mihalis Safras remix) [Suruba]
6 Christopher Benjamin – Down The Rabbit Hole [Flux Recordings]
7 Mihalis Safras – Interafrica (Bart Skil & Anton Pieete remix)
8 Dustin Zahn – Bees [Truesoul]
9 Gregor Tresher – Black Rain (Mihalis Safras remix) [Great Stuff Recordings]
10 NoiDoi – Ahoia [Material Series]

Mark-Henning February 2009 Top 10

1 Audio Werner – Easy Going [Hartchef Discos]
2 Jug & Mark-Henning – Mug2 [Autoreply]
3 Billy Dalessandro – Acidburn [Sonic Culture]
4 David Sens – Deepnotic (Tim Gregor Remix) [Microfreak]
5 Victorville – Cloaks (Alex Jones Remix) [Hypercolour]
6 Andre Crom – Catharsis (Polder Remix) [Safari Electronique]
7 P. Toile – Beware 2 [Ostwind Records]
8 Chris Fortier – Quote Unquote (Mark-Henning Remix) [EQ Grey]
9 The Subliminal Kid – To The South [Offkey Industries]
10 Tolga Fidan & Anthony Collins – Violente [Vakant]

Having just been voted label of the year by Resident Advisor, Ostgut Ton looks set to continue that run with more superb releases in 2009.

‘One’ is the debut album of Ben Klock. With its forward thinking appeal, it smoothly follows on from Shed’s debut this year. Controlling his output over the last decade with care and accuracy, Ben has only released a dozen EPs, rather than falling for an inflationary release policy. Working with Ostgut Ton, Bpitch Ctrl, Memo and his own platform Klockworks only, he chose trust and longevity over quick visibility.

So how does a producer whose 12”s have always been dedicated 100% to the dancefloor, approach his first album? “I haven’t had a prefab concept really. All I wanted was it to work on it as an album. The piece’s atmospheres in itself and in relation to each other were of greater concern than thoughts like ‘do I need another ambient track, or do I need a kick drum to make this work in a club?’ In principle, all of it’s techno, but I don’t see ‘One’ as a pure club album.”

Stylistically, Klock draws on plentiful resources. There’s the dirty techno in ‘Grip’, the sexy intermittent ‘Check Your Pulse’, alongside ambient like tracks like ‘Init One’ and ‘Init Two’, as well as the dubstep inspired ‘Goldrush’. And then there are the outstanding cuts ‘Goodly Sin’ and ‘Ok’ featuring Elif Biçer’s vocals. In comparison to her records with Prosumer & Murat Tepeli, here her voice has been reduced to the bare essentials.

With its rugged bassline and crafty claps ‘Ok’ is even reminiscent of a contemporary version of Nicolette’s early work with Shut Up And Dance, but first and foremost it expands the Berghain sound to include a notion of pop.

‘One’ displays a depth and maturity of sound rarely found in this compactness. In all its stylistic variety, this album oozes with Klock’s traditional understanding of techno. The special sound at Berghain, the low bass, the hiss and the rumble, the economically used melodic fragments and the eerie atmospheres are present at any moment of this recording. The album creates a sealed off space reflecting Berghain as an actual place. Ben Klock defines techno as visonary music knowing about its past, yet appearing completely up to date without ever coming close to Detroit and minimal clichés.

‘One’ is a powerful techno album marking an early highlight in 2009 and it raises the bar both for techno and Ostgut Ton. Not a small feat at all!
Ben Klock’s record release party takes place at Berghain/ Panorama Bar on 21 February 09.

Usefull links: www.berghain.de
http://www.myspace.com/benklock

CD tracklisting:
1. Coney Island
2. Goodly Sin (feat. Elif Biçer)
3. Check For Pulse
4. Underneath
5. Gloaming
6. Init One
7. Cargo
8. OK (feat. Elif Biçer)
9. In A While
10. Init Two
11. Gold Rush
12. Grip
13. Thirteen Rounds

catalog: OSTGUTCD#07/ LP03
date: 23.02.09 (physical) | 9.03.09 (digital)

 ”Before One” is an Ep preceding Ben Klock’s debut album “One”, which will be released at the end of February on Ostgut Ton, who were already named label of the year by Beatport. To start the year in the best way they will be launching this Ep that features four tracks, of which only one, “Init Two”, will be included on the album. These tracks already give a great impression of where “One” is heading: Classic techno with heart and soul, remembering the better days. On an equal footing with each other, all tracks display an even more complex quality than we already came to expect from Ben. Here, Ben matches his original, bass heavy Berghain sound with almost tender Acid sequences (”Subzero”), the shuffling monster groove of “Napoleon Hill”, a melody in „Before One“ that seeps into brains with no fail and an hommage to Berlin/Detroit inspired ambient on “Init Two”. This is a perfect record; for us, for self-respecting Techno Djs, for everyone.

a1 - Napoleon Hill
a2 - Subzero
b1 - Before One
b2 - Init Two

O-Ton#019
Rls Date: 26.01.2009