Ben Mono
Highly inspired by the Broken Beat movement in West London in the early 2000s, Ben Mono never stopped developing his own beats and sound-structures ever since.
Driven by the impact and the unique quality of breakbeats and more sophisticaed rhythms his musical research never stopped over the past 2 decades, during which he kept reinventing himself a few times.
His goal always was to stilistically settle down in that somewhat unidentified terrain between the Berlin scene and that place where most of his personal heroes came from: the UK. Having his first Drum & bass records coming out in 1998 (Force & Paul „Breakbeat Mutations“) and his first UKG release as Sonic Surfer („Beta Bay“) in 2002 it was time now for a rewind and to make it back to square one.
Running his infamous Operate nights together with TMSN in Berlin for the past 8 years, Ben Mono became one of the main representatives of that new wave of UKG artists in Germany. Watch out for his tune on Groove Chronicle's DPR imprint!
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Defected Records, Compost Records, Ed Banger Records, Stil vor Talent, Strictly Rhythm, Permanent Vacation, Boysnoize Records, Top Billin, Plant Music and Madtech Records. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Fri 16 OctPalomatheir 6th night · Operate UKG, Paloma Bar
- Sat 8 AugPalomatheir 5th night · Operate UKG, Paloma Bar
- Sun 19 JulRitter Butzkefirst time
- Sat 20 JunPalomatheir 4th night · Operate UKG, Paloma Bar
- Sat 14 FebPalomatheir 3rd night · Operate UKG, Paloma Bar
2025 — 2 nights
- Fri 5 Dec 2025Palomatheir 2nd night · Operate UKG, Paloma Bar
- Sat 27 Sep 2025Palomafirst time · Operate UKG, Paloma Bar
Their rooms
One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2025, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.
- PalomaSep 2025 – Oct 20266 nights
Once each: Ritter Butzke.
Who they play with
Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.
- TMSNPaloma ×6 · Sep 2025 – Oct 20266 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.