Colin Benders - Rigmarole 
Digital & physical release 
Out on HIss & Hertz Records 
Release date: Dec 17 2021

Following in the footsteps of his vinyl-only debut EP, “Floaty Things”, electronics transcender and modular warlock Colin Benders clocks in on Hiss & Hertz with “Rigmarole”, a five-track odyssey ushering us amidst mazes of intricately woven improvisations, hectic rhythmic landslides and mood-enslaved machine talk. 

Recorded during lockdown, like its predecessor, the album pledges to showcase the darker side of Benders’ live streams turned archival recordings, whilst shedding a broader light on his breadth of scope as a spur-of-the-moment conductor of highly demanding, circuit-bending symphonies of sorts. 

A shape-shifting flow of unpredictable essence, flush with climactic flights, untamed divagations and further mind-expanding excursions into chaotic sound expanses, “Rigmarole” is the fruit of a philosophy and particular relationship with his steadily growing online audience, with whom he’s come to go full circle; from sharing his knowledge and approach towards modular expression in open-ended, non-formulaic fashion, onto stamping the result of his jamming sessions on black wax thanks to the continued support of his community. Comprised of five live-recorded joints spanning the widest array of styles, tempi and moods, “Rigmarole” is a magnetic field where Benders’ sound blooms in all its alchemical potency and spontaneous finesse.
 
Via extended windows into his ever-resourceful headspace, Benders threads his way across brooding ambient scapes, sci-fi-indebted spaciousness and metronomic minimalism (“This Is Fine”), hi-octane, tribal-laced industrialism on a droney tip (“Wait”), stadium-sized arpeggiated techno (“What’s That Noise”), gritty basement thunder down your spine (“I Can’t Feel My Legs”) and wide-screen, cosmic-friendly exploratory wares (“Carry Me”) - somehow shaping a cohesive ensemble of music out of his all-embracing investigations in the realm of modular potentialities and live-told inspiration. Keeping you on the edge throughout, “Rigmarole” will be written down as a defining moment for Benders, an unpigeonholeable artist in constant search for the next thrill.

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electronic music composer, producer, remixer, Ableton Live user, DJ, Father of Mars

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Fri 4 Dec, 15
AutonomeDemoSanis Soli @ KTS, Freiburg;
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past:
06.04.2025 – Anraven 2025, Hasenheide, Berlin
10.10.2024 – MWA, Crack Bellmer, Berlin (live)
07.09.2024 – Berlin Modular Society, Neulant, Berlin (live)
17.08.2024 – Blau am See (live)
13.07.2024 – Bangin' in Werneuchen (live)
18.05.2024 – Superbooth '24, FEZ, Berlin
05.05.2024 – Anraven, Hasenheide, Berlin
08.03.2024 – CHOOSE: feminism, Kater Blau, Berlin
03.11.2023 – CHOOSE :rebel riot rise, Mensch Meier, Berlin
16.04.2023 – Silent Rave, Hasenheide, Berlin
04.02.2023 – Traumschiff, Berlin
26.11.2022 – Zur goldenen Kettensäge, Berlin
19.11.2022 – CHOOSE :eat the rich, Mensch Meier, Berlin
08.10.2022 – AfD wegbassen, Reclaim Club Culture Truck, Berlin
27.08.2022 – CHOOSE :solidarity, Mensch Meier, Berlin
05.06.2022 – Tante Frizzante, Berlin
19.03.2022 – Silent Rave, Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin
18.03.2022 – CHOOSE :feminism, Mensch Meier, Berlin
26.11.2021 – Corona Milk Bar, Berlin
15.10.2021 – Corona Milk Bar, Berlin
06.08.2021 – Corona Milk Bar, Berlin
29.08.2020 – Irgendwo am Stadtrand, Berlin
20.06.2020 – Corona Milk Bar, Berlin
04.04.2020 – Corona Milk Bar, Berlin
12.10.2019 – choose:future – Mensch Meier, Berlin
14.06.2019 – Insel der Jugend, Berlin

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