Berlin based label and creative collective operating in the left-field sphere of electronic music since 2002.

✺☾

Selected past shows:

05.08.2025 Coexist x Planetarium, Stuttgart
06.06.2025 Coexist x Fridas Pier, Stuttgart
28.03.2025 OPIA x Piano Day, Waiblingen
01.02.2025 Sonne, Strand und Meer x Coexist, Arucas
20.09.2024 Cinema Arta, Cluj-Napoca, RO
21.06.2024 RBB Radioeins, Berlin, DE
01.06.2024 Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
06.11.2023 Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE 
(@foundlingsounds Timber Timbre support)
09.12.2013 European Media Art Festival, DE
30.06.2014 Six Dogs, Athens, GR (Headliner show)
20.09.2014 Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE 
(@foundlingsounds show)
18.12.2015 Chaplin, Athens, GR (Dj-Set)
22.12.2015 Booze, Athens, GR (Headliner show)
12.05.2018 Café Dreiklang, Münster, DE
13.05.2018 Projekt 36, Osnabrück, DE
14.05.2018 Zum Scheuen Reh, Köln, DE
15.07.2018 Collide Festival, Hamburg, DE
17.10.2018 The Rose Hill, Brighton, UK
(@foundlingsounds show)
19.10.2018 Bar 42, Worthing, UK
21.10.2018 The Bicycle Shop, Norwich, UK
22.10.2018 Paper Dress Vintage, London, UK
30.10.2018 OsnabrückHalle, Osnabrück, DE

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A Liveact. A ghost producer. A fan. He also plays in bands like INIT, or Dolphins or KEYS +++ produced the last two albums for Chris Imler. Downbeat in experimental dub zones. The goat for Edits and remixes. When house was his nation, he used to listen to pen names like Suedmilch or Venedikt Reyf. He still likes the music formed under their umbrella, but today his tomorrow is not echoed in yesterday. His sound signature moved on. Into the open. He founded labels like R.i.O. or Serious Trouble. 

He lives in Berlin. Physically. In mind Benedikt Frey is at many places. Traveling far thru his home studio that is a flat a studio a flat an instrument a record collection a flat a studio. Everywhere gear, vinyl, tapes, instruments, rooms for spontaneous sonic notions, these moments, when a sudden strike of stimulation falls. He is inspired a lot. For music to dance. Music for films. Music for live shows. Music for dancing glows. Techno, house, downbeat, ambient, jungle, electronics outside the norms. Those transportive ones. Jamming with others. Jamming with his mind. In Berlin Wedding, North of the town, where the lights dimmed low, neighbors share the flow, and a small river runs slow.  As a DJ he plays here, there, everywhere. Big clubs, small shacks, festivals, gatherings. From fast to 90 BPM - as he feels. 

For himself. For the crowd. In the spur. He still remembers his club kid days. Going to dance with friends. Down there in Offenbach. Doing the Robert Johnson. Collective emotions for a better tomorrow. These he still seeks. In his music. His shows. His collaborations. You can book him for a party. For enlightenment. For ecstasy or introspective perspectives. Dancing slow, whilst pirouetting a high-pitched show. 

Since more than a decade. His own music is out there, too. Bringing his spirits in sound. On his own labels. On international imprints like ESP Institute, Hivern Discs, Craigie Knowes, or Emotional Response. Solo works. Driving ones. Slow drills. Teased during his DJ dates around the planet. 

The music plays day and night. Inspiration comes. From a simple kick drum. A movie sequence. A bird on the sill. A picture, totally still. Can’t kick that feeling when it hits. Benedikt Frey. In dreams. In streams. In music. Emotions. Situations. At night. In those flashy lights, when it bites.

24.5. b2b with NVST, Kauz Zürich
10.05. Säälchen, Berlin
26.04. Zentralwäscherei, Zürich
25.04. b2b Philipp Otterbach, Arkaoda, Berlin
04.04. Sameheads, Berlin
13.03. Säule, Berlin
22.02. Kegelbahn, Luzern
21.02. Fribourg, CH

---- BYE24

17.12. Kiosk Radio,  Bxl
15.12. Curly Teeth b2b w. NVST, Bxl
30.11. Panorama Bar, Berlin
16.11. La Culottee, Paris
19.10. LAF, Pforzhyme
05.10. Sameheads, Berlin
28.09. Buka, Milan
21.09. Chemiefabrik, Zürich
14.09. Ausland, Berlin
16.08. Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
21.07. Am Bach Festival, Lucerne
05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
26.01. Sameheads, Berlin

Foundling is based in Berlin, Germany. Fourth album 'Equilibria' on the way!

Father
Pianoplayer 
Journalist 

Since I got to know the piano at the age of nine, there was something that belonged only to me, a hiding place, music was a diary. In it, everything that burdened me took on a new form, and listening to it liberated me. An ideal path until today. I have no idea about music, I don't know what I will play when I sit down, I only know that something new will happen and I will hear myself again later. Nobody believes me because everything has to be learned, but that's the way it is. If you can make others happy with it or inspire them, like you, it's a double joy.


More Music on modern keyboards:

http://www.youtube.com/Grubenpony12

Welcome to the depths of the Interstellar Paradise

Interstellar Paradise is a music label from Leipzig/Germany providing fine electronic sounds. We're transmitting mysterious audio frequencies out of the deepest corners of the universe, but serious stuff for the galactic dancefloors is part of our mission aswell.

Founded by Kiorda Däkin & Konter in 2006, we slowly but steadily built our „interstellar catalogue“ with lots of different artists. Ranging from good old friends like Amid Emteori and Mono Mitte or other local talent such as Frank Molder, we even spun our web overseas with an promising artist named Seraphim. And this is exactly what Interstellar Paradise stands for:

Working with interesting producers from different planets of the digi-galaxy, bringing futuristic soundtracks for your mind, soul and feet.

This is what we'd call our specific labelsound, and it spans from Ambientscapes to chunky Tech-House-Movers. Our music has no boundaries and we want you to have a good time with it.

Now, sliding into 2012, we have some big things coming up together with our new label partner Torsten Solberg. We also got a bunch of new releases coming through within the next months. Some special projects are waiting to see the light of the day aswell, so keep your eyes peeled for this!

Thanks & best regards 
INTERSTELLAR PARADISE

Founder of Interstellar Paradise.

Releases for Hacienda ( Ministry of Sound ), Steffen Bennemann ( 1Bit-Wonder ), Markus Masuhr ( Insectorama ), Atabey, Bördigjord Rec., Interstellar Paradise ... ... ...

aka : Arij Noke, Oceanfire, Battke Brosch, Frank Lahnstein ... ... ...

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