30/07/2026
Twenty years ago, Ben Klock was working a call centre, taking graphic-design gigs to pay rent, and just about ready to give up DJing for good.
He’d come up as a pianist, drifted through jazz, then made drum’n’bass - but by the early 2000s Berlin had gone all in on the “cocky cocaine” electroclash sound, and there was barely any room left for the deep, patient techno he cared about. He was, by his own account, ready to walk away.
Then in 2004 a new club opened in a hulking former power station, and invited him to be a resident. He played it once and knew he’d found the place he’d been looking for his whole life. That club was Berghain. His 2008 debut One, made in the wake of losing his mother, turned him from a local into a name spoken in hushed tones worldwide.
What’s stayed constant through all of it is the thing this carousel is really about - swipe through his own words and you’ll see it.
二十年前,Ben Klock 一邊喺 call centre 返工,一邊接啲平面設計散工交租,幾乎已經打算徹底放棄做 DJ。
佢本身係彈琴出身,玩過 jazz,之後又做 drum’n’bass——但去到二千年代初,柏林成個場都撲晒去嗰種浮誇嘅 electroclash 聲音,佢真正鍾意嗰種深、耐聽、有耐性嘅 techno,幾乎冇位企。佢自己都話,嗰陣真係想收手。
點知 2004 年,一間開喺舊發電廠入面嘅新 club 搵佢做 resident。佢打咗一次,就知道搵到咗自己搵咗成世嘅地方。嗰間 club,就係 Berghain。佢 2008 年嘅首張專輯《One》,係喺失去媽媽之後嘅低潮期做出嚟嘅,亦都令佢由一個本地 DJ,變成全世界都細聲提起嘅名。
由頭到尾冇變過嘅,就係呢個 carousel 想講嗰樣嘢——swipe 睇佢自己啲說話,你就會明。
Yee.
