01 Too Contemporary To Post

02 Too Forward To Back

Hy, I'm Beatdenker, a guitar player, composer, producer, (rhythm) researcher, tutor, thinker, (festival) organizer, postcontemporary, subcultural creator, feminist, real-utopist, motivator, anti-racist ally, traveler, passionated laugher, part of SUBWATER BEATS collective and privileged inhabitant of planet earth.

I believe in pluralism, doing things together, experiments, multiperspectivity, celebrating and appreciating life, connecting collectives, exchange and random stuff.

Live I played e.g. at:
Fusion Festival Lärz, Red Light Radio Amsterdam, What is Music Festival Burgos, Jazzfestival Freiburg, KIM Festival Berlin, SeaNaps Festival Leipzig, SURfF Festival Berlin, Rudolstadt Festival, Jazzkollektiv Nights Berlin, Bandstand Festival Hellerau, BRN Festival Dresden, SampleMusicFestival Berlin

About the music:
After my debut album "Too Tall To Dance" I'm still pushing two things. First is making the most complexistic rhythms sounding as bouncy as possible. I developed a lot of my rhythmic influences (Ferneyhough, BJ Manjunath, Miles Okazaki, Eric Schäfer) further into my own rhythmic systems, where I'm now able to imagine and concetely play more complex rhythms like triple nested tuplets in a polyrhythm like 31 over 17, means I play another 5 over e.g. certain 7 hits out of the 31 and then I play another 5 over certain e.g. 3 hits of the 5, haha. The idea is to change speeds very quickly, but with a completely awareness of what I'm doing. But still I'm mixing this approach with a more open Jazz influenced kind of improvising.
Second is to mix that knowledge with dance music, to create Future Dance Steps, means checking out how people need to move differently within my live sets. It's the coolest pleasure if people come after a concert and tell me that they moved their bodies in a way they never did before. Bäm, haha.
And a last thing, my three slogans: ethic endless fun, imagination unlimited, demanding power from below, means: have as much fun as possible without hurting someone else (especially marginalized people), imagine the most way-out things within your work or passion, push your creativity as much as possible to reach something new and join at least one political, social, plural economic, future-orientated movement and fight for a better "world".
Have fun listening. Peace out!

10 Beatdenker - Don't Worry, The Next Album Will Be Out Soon, Yippie

09 Beatdenker - Ok, I'll Check The Time Machine And Some More Beats

08 Beatdenker - Hey Mum I Do A Little Space Trip, Be Back Around 3pm

07 Beatdenker - But Can I Play With The Robots Again

06 Beatdenker - Yeah, Do Cool'N'Fun Stuff, Just Stay Ethical

05 Beatdenker - I Go Sliding With My Favourite Penguins

04 Beatdenker - And A Frozen Margarita For Me Please

03 Beatdenker - No, You Will Get An Ice Cream Today

02 Beatdenker - Do I Also Need A Name Now, Haha

01 Beatdenker - Hello This Is The Ethic Endless Fun Album

"I Like It But I Do It" is a concise and compressed one track album with 32 beats and atmospheres. This short-lived, fluid piece of music comes out together with a 3D animation video as a complete, intensive and immersive piece of art that constantly catapults you into new surreal worlds, perspectives and realities.

On the one hand, it reflects our fast-moving world of thoughts, but also our zeitgeist as such. A time in which everything is highly compressed, as many experiences as possible should happen, as many things as possible should be done. "I Like It But I Do It" is a positive approach to this phenomenon and asks with a non-navian, optimistic view for the exhilarating and cheering aspects.

On the other hand, it is a slightly dadaistic description for something that is actually very necessary. To do something one likes, or to potentiate one's own potentiality to a healthy extent and in the moral good.

After my first three albums about dancing through life with futuristic dance steps, having ethic endless fun, creating own real utopias and simultaneously massive worldwide fucked up bullshit happening, I still say: Let's not give up fighting for the good, for a future worth living for all beings. the moral facts are in us, let's do better stuff, let's dare to do what we like, let's like what we do.
credits
released May 4, 2023

"I Like It But I Do It" is completely produced on the computer. Nevertheless, almost everything is played and recorded spontaneously with a midi keyboard. Within about one week with quite little sleep, with ultra enthusiasm, struggle here and there but endless fun, I did and used this:

virtual synthesizers, granular synthesis software, drums per finger drumming, multiple software effects, mixing, mastering and stuff I don't remember but belongs to that process of creation, haha.

music video - Beatdenker and AI

Thanks to all who have passed on their knowledge about music and life to me and to every entity supporting me!

I Like It But I Do It

Beatdenker - I Like It But I Do It

"Stuff Is happening" asks what happens when you let go and spend a day doing something as spontaneously and directly as possible. In what forms can creativity, improvisation and freedom exist? What is the most direct form of expression? How long is a day in terms of perception, creative power and well-being? What should, can, may happen in it? How much information can i absorb, how much can i trigger?
If you take these questions further, you usually come to the questions of who am I, what is the meaning of life and what is consciousness? None of these questions can and will be answered by this music, nevertheless it wants to give an impulse to ask them again and again and to pursue them.

"Stuff Is Happening" is made within one day. It combines to ways of music producing. First part are improvised rhythms recorded with a simple mic and thrown throuth some granulisers. Second part consists of instantly designed Beats with improvised melodies, basslines and chrods. Everything sprouted out of a hyper flow combined with some self-imposed time pressure and endless fun, yippie.

voice, guitar, finger drumming, virtual synthesizers per midi keys, granular synthesis effects, multiple software effects, mixing, mastering and stuff I don't remember but belongs to that process of creation, haha.

music video - Beatdenker and AI

Thanks to all who have passed on their knowledge about music and life to me and to every entity supporting me!

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Stuff Is Happening (Within A Beatdenker's Day, Haha) - EP

All is live improvised with Loop Station, FX, Guitar and MPC Drum Samples, brain and soul.

The album was made in 11 days with instant composing, recording the main 5 tracks on the rc505 with my as153 guitar and sounds of the sy300 and some (mostly drum) samples of the mpc500 by finger drumming, recording this as a stereo track with an instant arrangement with some rc505 effects to the daw, adding some melodies, sounds, atmospheres, samples for transitions, mixing this, learning a bit about mastering, mastering this, choosing an order, checking out on a fat pa system, done.
The music is interested in inventing some new beats or rhythmic feels for future dance steps and life styles. Means combining a lot of spirit of and knowledge about Jazz, Indian Music, New Music, Beat Music, IDM, Electronica to a new thing called SUBWATER BEATS.
With a large use of polyrhythms, equi distance rhythms, isorhythms, (double, triple) displacements, rhythms with two and three brackets, isomelodies, uncommon subdivisions, harmonic and metric superimpositions, brain and soul this happened in a hyper creative mood with always staying in 4/4 meter.
... Whatever, the main thing is it sounds and feels fresh, encouraging, bouncy, dancy, fat, real, spirited, bubbly...

Album Teaser - Too Tall To Dance

Postcontemporary Brain Beats / Subwater Beats
finger drumming / guitar / live loops
Jo Wespel / Joachim Wespel doing stuff
„We are stunned, hallucinated, crazy with musical sickness, immersed in these incredible beats that the artist has created, it's all so avant-garde and beautiful, everything so spatial, a wonderful revelation of musical experience, we love it and can't wait to see him in Brazil one day and feel this impressive music live.

An electronic transcendental journey and impressive work of art, it is a rocket straight into space and so different from anything we have ever heard

Not to spoil your surprise about this album, we can only say that we will never be the same after listening to the 13 impressive works of art that Beatdenker delivers, the album causes sensations in our body and mind that are indescribable, it is not just an album, it is an experience that everyone needs to have.“ - Indieoclock / Brazil

 

„When it comes to his recorded music, he stretches the boundary just as far. Inventive and intriguing, his music fuses elements of beats and rhythms with Future Dance, Jazz and New World influences culminating in a sound crafted from extraordinary imagination. he offers a sound from the meta IDM world.

Taking twists and turns at every step, the album lays down a vast exploration of experimental music with constantly evolving stuttered rhythms throughout. An incredible album! Such a mesmerising piece of art!“ - Plasticmag / London

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