Ben Klock - One

Artist: Ben Klock
Title: One
Label: Ostgut Tontrager
Cat#: OSTGUTCD07
Date: Mar-2009
Source: Web
Format: Unmixed
Quality: 320 Kbps / Full Stereo

Tracklist:
1.Ben Klock - Coney Island
2.Ben Klock feat. Elif Bicer - Gooldy Sin
3.Ben Klock - Check For Pulse
4.Ben Klock - Underneath
5.Ben Klock - Gloaming
6.Ben Klock - Init One
7.Ben Klock - Cargo
8.Ben Klock feat. Elif Bicer - OK
9.Ben Klock - In A While
10.Ben Klock - Init Two
11.Ben Klock - Gold Rush
12.Ben Klock - Grip
13.Ben Klock - Thirteen Rounds

If 2008 was a benchmark year for Ostgut, 2009 is already beginning to feel like
its equal. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. First up: Marcel Dettmann
compatriot and similarly handsome bastard, Ben Klock. As the first Berghain
resident to issue an album on the club's in-house label, Klock has a granite
weight on his shoulders, even with prior successes like 2007's Scenario double
pack with Dettmann, a few modest releases on Bpitch Control and his
cheekily-titled Before One EP to stoke the flames for this debut full-length.
But perhaps none of those releases prepared us for this. The year's first great
techno record, One is a stern assembly of crushed-metal techno and flash frozen
dub-tech that for all of its shadows and unlit passages still sparks with
briefly luminous melodies. Klock designed the tracks last year with an album in
mind, and the result is a work of tremendous cohesion and fluidity. Much like
Shedding The Past, One's sequencing is meticulous, allowing Klock to maintain
his clubber's momentum without grinding out his gears over the record's length.
It's an album of almost monolithic presence and physique, with dim ambient
interludes which offer not so much repose as a sense that some wires have
shorted out, briefly, before everything starts to bang and clatter about in the
black anew. A natural product of Berlin, to hear One is to listen in on the
sound of a factory pulsing away when the workers have all gone home-the
unnatural cadences and tempos of things that are plugged in, gassed-up. "Check
for Pulse"" is all mechanistic throb, thrifty but infectious, while with its
grim symphonic synth stabs and clunky rhythms, "Coney Island" is savage
bump-in-the-night techno. The gentle whorls of synth and faint helicopter twirl
of "In a While" are a bit more serene, allowing enough room for the track's
jagged Atari melody to collapse under its own sly weight, and "Gold Rush" is
Klock's overt dubstep entry, an elementary cut with more stabs of dim color and
a beat like a chain-gang lumbering by the roadside. Yet for all its severity,
One wouldn't be such an artistic statement without Klock's sly melodic
stitching. "Gloaming" resembles the Bradburian electronic narratives of Boards
of Canada. "Cargo," with its clogged-heartbeat bounce and ascendant tonal lines,
provides a moment of much-needed reprieve. Though the prospect of Elif Bicer-who
appeared on last year's Prosumer & Murat Tepeli record-pairing with Klock
initially seemed like a mismatch, Bicer's voice is used more for instrumental
layering than as a singer. Her sensual moans provide the slow launchpad techno
of "Goodly Sin" with a fleshy warmth that alleviates some of its sting, while
her voice is anything but comforting on "OK," smeared in echo and dim reverb to
make the track's motorized whirr even more disturbing. Such is the tenor of
Klock's play on One, that these honey-pie tones sound so bloodless, Bicer's
voice like a warm body set adrift in the evernight cold of space.

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