Ben Klock and Fadi Mohem present “Layer One”, their first collaborative album on their new label LAYER, featuring the charismatic Coby Sey and the legendary grime MC Flowdan (Grammy Awards winner). The ten-track full length project titled Layer One follows the hypnotic EP “Klockworks 34” that set the stage in 2022. In a bold departure from the techno roots that have defined and nurtured their careers, Klock and Mohem are now pushing genre boundaries, exploring IDM, ambient and experimental electronic music while still retaining the brilliance that characterised their earlier work. “Layer One” is out November 2024, Friday 29th; “Clean Slate” feat. Coby Sey single & music video are out October 2024, Friday 11th.
The conceptual direction of “Layer One” delves into a post-human world, where humans are close to extinction on Earth, leaving only imprints, traces, and relics behind—digital fossils and machine-generated images capturing fleeting moments of non-human photography, as Artificial Intelligence remains in a world that quietly thrives without us. We do not perceive this as a bleak apocalyptic dystopia, but more a sober and serene reflection of a world that continues to exist and flourish, indifferent to the absence of humanity. Despite this unremitting setting, through this journey we find survivors who signal a remembrance of the human sensibilities.
“Layer One” tracking list:
01. Ultimately (feat. Coby Sey)
02. Escape Velocity
03. Restrained
04. Nothing Else
05. Our Sector (feat. Flowdan)
06. The Vanishing
07. Clean Slate (feat. Coby Sey)
08. Rest Assured
09. The Machine
10. Melatonin
image: Oriol Reverter
