Ben Klock - first headliner of Ostrov Festival 2017

With Ben Klock there’s another universe, one that goes well beyond DJing as a lifestyle. Whether he’s playing a cave in Italy or a festival in Serbia, whether he’s just off a plane after a few minutes’ sleep or has just rolled out of his own bed and around the corner to Berghain, there’s something happening that goes beyond technical virtuosity, beyond name recognition or hype, beyond the current vogue for one genre of dance music or another.

When this enigmatic, sometimes aloof character gets behind the decks, he makes a genuine connection with the people on the dancefloor – whether they’re ecstatic Spaniards or reserved Finns.

It’s something that many DJs aspire to, and few consistently achieve. It’s been a privilege to see it up close. A punishing, exhausting, perception-altering privilege.

More artists of Ostrov Festival 2017 will be announced in February 2017.

Our own island just in the middle of the city, 3 days of music and a huge line-up of DJs, performing on three stages - that what makes Ostrov Festival one of the top events in Ukraine's electronic music industry that everyone waits for.

Since the first Ostrov in 2013, thousands of people have visited the festival and the line up each year was full of the most current musicians and DJs: Dixon, Tale Of Us, Art Department, Ricardo Villalobos, [a: rpia: r], Barac, Praslea, Booka Shade, Sonja Moonear, Carl Craig, Margaret Dygas, Guy Gerber, Mathew Jonson, Juan Atkins and many others.

During the last years, Ostrov Festival has become one of the most exciting live events not only for Ukrainian music fans, but also for people from around the world. We had festival-goers from Georgia, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Russia, USA etc. having fun at our event last year.