'One' is the debut album of Ben Klock. 

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.

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Ben Klock | Check For Pulse

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As a DJ, I combine the relentless sound of hypnotic techno with my original research in metaphysics in order to transform philosophical ideas into a sonic experience of mind-body synergy. 

Inspired by the elusive relation between mind and matter, I take the perspective of neutral monism: that, at the most fundamental level of existence there is only one thing, and it is neither physical nor mental but rather constitutes the a priori dimension of possibility from which all reality derives.

Mix releases: 

DER LIEBE [UK] 2020
MOD82 [SK] 2021
CODECAST [AR] 2021
ASW [NL] 2022
YAX INVITES [AU] 2022
AMW RADIO [NL] 2023
MAXI RADIO [NL] 2024
SLØT [DE] 2024
EXTRATERRESTRIAL DESIRE [UK] 2024
FRADKIN [NL] 2025
DUB TECHNO TV [ES] 2025
KANDA [NL] 2025
HYPNOTIK [IT]  --- forthcoming 2025
ALTRUISM [RU] --- forthcoming 2025
WAVESCAPE [IT]  --- forthcoming 2026



Audio project 'Organic Technique' demonstrates my original method of recording raw vocals to create multifunctional DJ tools with no production whatsoever. Intended to be mixed directly in DJ sets, the raw samples are recorded by interdisciplinary vocalists exploring concepts in metaphysics, neuroscience, and linguistics.

Alongside, I specialise in fine art analogue photography, which has been featured as cover art by Sløt, Codecast, Johan Sebastian, and on Freddy K’s Krzrzrz radio show, all consolidated in my photography exhibition series 'Fundamentals'. My ongoing DJ portrait & research project 'Naturalism' aims to converge aesthetics, sound, and semantics through my original dynamic portraiture process based on synesthetic states of mind.

Finally, following 3 years of concept writing for releases on Platform 22, I continue to create original concepts for my mix releases and independent projects on www.fradkin.nl.

Ben Klock | Check For Pulse

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