It's nice to know an artist as uncompromising as Ben Klock can be so widely loved. Granted, he might throw in a few more house records than some of his fellow Berghain residents, but his overall sound is techno at its most punishing, and he always has the cojones to lay it on thick, even when he's playing somewhere far away from his home base in Berlin (which has been happening more and more ). Few DJs could take such brutal rhythms and meld them into something so compelling. It's that finesse that makes him one of the best.