Berghain 05 - Marcel Fengler

Techno DJs will often speak of the inherent challenge they face in distilling their set into an 80 minute mix. It could be argued that the residents of Berlin's Berghain, who routinely get eight hours or more in which to show their wares, face the toughest challenge. How to encapsulate that in a brief home listening experience? Yet in practice, past instalments of the Berghain series from Marcel Dettmann and Ben Klock proved to be among the foremost techno mixes in their respective years of release. The counter to this argument could be that those at the Berghain controls simply have that much more deck time in which to hone their programming skills—take an existing, highly tuned discipline and apply it to a different (shorter) template.

Although he hasn't generated the same mass of critical interest as some of his fellow residents, Marcel Fengler has been pushing extended sessions since Berghain's opening night. This could mostly be attributed to his comparatively conservative release schedule. Fengler has also often occupied a specific space in the minds of attendees: locals don't necessarily go specifically to see him ("he's great but I can catch him next time"); and tourists don't necessarily book flights around his performances. And while Berghain 05 certainly won't turn Fengler into a "star" it should help address this imbalance of recognition, as he richly deserves.
Tracklist /
01. Emika - Count Backwards (Marcel Dettmann Vocal Edit)
02. Peter van Hoesen - Axis Mundi
03. Terrence Dixon - Tranquility (Octagen Remix)
04. Byetone - Plastic Star (Dr. Walker Remix)
05. Tommy Four Seven - G (Regis Remix)
06. Marcel Fengler - Thwack (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)
07. Secret Cinema - Timeless Altitude (Minneapolis Mix)
08. Ratio - Double Feature
09. Gerd - Time and Space (Duplex Southside Mix)
10. Seiji - More Of You
11. Claude Young & Takasi Nakajima - Think Twice
12. Puresque - 001A
13. Ben Sims - Slow Motion
14. Vril - UV
15. Marcel Fengler - Sphinx
16. Skudge - Man On Wire
17. Reagenz - The Labyrinth
18. 20:20 Vision - Future Remembrance (20:20 Livestyle Mix)
19. Convextion AKA E.R.P. - Vapor Pressure