(King Street Sounds, Guesthouse music, Neptunn)

An artist strongly influenced by the mid 90’s house and techno music. He fell in love with electronic music in his early age. Growing up in the Slovenian coastal area, where the clubbing scene was in a major rise, which had an enormous impact on his work. In the year 1998 he started hanging out at a local radio station, where he got introduced to tons of music genres, which helped him evolve his musical skill as well as improve his sound production.

After a while, he started playing on turntables, where he found his passion and talent for mixing. His next step was to play house and techno music on a weekly radio show. It didn't even take him long to start composing his own tunes and producing his own label songs. Later his first house record track ''Get Down'' was released on vinyl and digitally imported by the german house label Discogalaxy, which led to a series of events that brought him to where he is now.

At some point later, he teamed up with his well known friend Gramatik and they started making music together. A various mixture from hip hop beats to house grooves influenced by Chichago and Detroit beat artists. Benjamin also has a big reputation on the Slovenian hip-hop scene, as a beatmaker and a well known producer. He produced several hip-hop albums for some of the major Slovenian underground hip-hop artists such as Drill and 5. Element and helped out with the Velebor record for the slovenian Wudisban records house.

Gramatik and Shock formed up a duo project under the name “Fatnatikz” which was based on electro / funk / house music. His style is a variation of deep, jackin and funky tech-house and french house beats. His dj sets are very dynamic and pumping.. He released tracks for labels like King Street Sounds, Guesthouse music, Neptuun city, Colorecordings, Flapjack and 1st rate music.

His releases are often seen on top 100 charts on Traxsource, Beatport, Juno and other worldwide charts. Tunes like ''Hands Up'' released on Neptuun City was also supported by Uroš Umek in his famous ''Behind the Iron Curtain'' radio show (http://soundcloud.com/umek/btic_070), which was a good reference for his further work.

In the year 2012 he released a new track called “Midnight mission” which was released on the Guesthouse music label. The track was chosen from Traxsource as a top 100 selling record of 2012 in the Jackin’ House category. His latest successful release was a deep house track made in collaboration with Yan, named “Choices” from the Groove Foundation EP released on King Street Sounds / Street King and came up to 3rd place in the top 10 jackin’ house tunes chart.

We must not forget about the amazing collaboration he did with a well known Slovenian singer named Anika Horvat. With the help of his knowledge of the electronic genres and her wonderful singing voice they made a song named Save the animals.

The most successful remix was made for Cevin Fisher, “You Changed My life” which also came on to the top 10 chart on Traxsource label. In the year 2009 he remixed some old school ghetto house tracks from the Paris Mitchell Project feat. Waxmaster, “Ghetto Shout Out”, which was originally played by Daft Punk on BBC radio 1 essential mix in 1997. Benjamin Shock's remix came on to 35th place on the Beatport top 100 electro house chart. Another great remix was a classic, from Brandon Plank vs House Master Boyz “House Nation”.

Overall his work says more than a thousand words and even after all this time Benjamin stayed true to his unique sound and production. He always delivers and does, what has to be done behind the turntables with a lot of background knowledge about production, tracks and mixing. This, with a combination of good references and chart listings makes him a real crowd pleaser and we can't deny otherwise.

Single releases:

Benjamin Shock & Brale - Evil Payback (Eighttrax, april 2007)

Benjamin Shock - Get Down (Colorecordings Sampler 03, october 2007)

Benjamin Shock - Happy Days (Eighttrax Clicks 01, march 2008)

Benjamin Shock - Reality (DNT Music Factory, september 2008)

Fatnatikz - Bringin' It Back (Eighttrax, october 2009)

Fatnatikz - Power Robotz (Colorecordings, november 2009)

Benjamin Shock - Funkatequla (Colorecordings, december 2010)

Benjamin Shock feat. Arancioni - Caccofonica Noia (Behold Recordings, october 2011)

Benjamin Shock - Everything's Corrupt (1st Rate Music, october 2012)

Benjamin Shock - Hands Up (Neptuun City, october 2012)

Benjamin Shock - Party Starter (Street King, march 2013)

Benjamin Shock - Life Saver (Neptuun City, may 2013)

EPs:

Benjamin Shock - Body Talk EP (Colorecordings, january 2008)

Benjamin Shock & Gramatik - Fire Hazard EP (Colorecordings, april 2008)

Fatnatikz - Power Demonstration EP (DNT Music Factory, may 2009)

Benjamin Shock - Nebular Muzikk EP (R3tox Digital, february 2009)

Benjamin Shock - Sonata EP (Colorecordings, june 2009)

Benjamin Shock - Free Your Soul EP (Eighttrax, september 2009)

Benjamin Shock - Random Muzikk EP (Lets Play House Recordings, november 2009)

Benjamin Shock - Revisited EP (Flapjack Records, march 2011)

Benjamin Shock - Ultimate Disco Solution EP (Guesthouse Music, july 2012)

Benjamin Shock - Groove Foundation EP (Street King, august 2013)

Benjamin Shock - Mixed Emotions EP (Street King, march 2014)

Compilations:

Street King Vol.4: Kruse & Nuernberg Sampler (Street King, january 2012)

Karavan - Utopia, vol. 8 (Clubstar, february 2012)

World Expo Volume 09 (Neptuun City, october 2012)

1st Rate Flames Winter Collection (1st Rate Music, december 2012)

House Legends: Cevin Fisher (Street King, february 2013)

Deep In Tech (Nite Grooves, march 2013)

House Of Ibiza 2013 (Street King, may 2013)

After Hours: Ibiza 2013 (Street King, august 2013)

Amsterdam 2013 (Street King, october 2013)

Finest NY House 2013 Part 2 (King Street Sounds, december 2013)

Remixes:

Brale - Ass Shaker (BS mix) (Colorecordings, february 2008)

The Housemaster Boyz - House Nation (BS 2009 mix) (Colorecordings, march 2008)

Dj Vitamin D - Motherfuckers Know Who's The Best (BS rmx) (Some Cutz Up, may 2008)

Gramatik - We Rock The Most (BS golden army mix) (Lets Play House Recordings, may 2008)

JR - If U Want Me (BS rmx) (Discogalaxy Records, july 2008)

Sysex - Coded Movement (BS mix) (R3tox Digital, march 2009)

Sysex - Coded Movement (BS oldschool mix) (R3tox Digital, april 2009)

The Housemaster Boyz - House Nation (BS push the tempo mix) (Colorecordings, may 2009)

JK Soul - The Way You Love Me (BS vocal dub mix) (Colorecordings, october 2009)

Frederik Olufsen - She Wants (BS rmx) (Mizumo, october 2011)

Locarini - Bonfires (BS mix) (Street King, november 2011)

Cevin Fisher - You Changed My Life (BS Funked Up mix) (Street King, december 2012)

Ben Pound & Vitamin D - The Lift (BS MF break mix) (Eighttrax, february 2013)

Yan - Gonna Get U High (BS P.Slapin mix) (Flapjack Records, may 2013)