Emotional Response completes its 10th anniversary by welcoming Benedikt Frey to the label with a special release, a fantastic dub-psychedelic cover of Joy Division, delivered in multiple versions, including a wonderful dub-meets-prog reinterpretation from Lucas Croon.

An established producer for over a decade, with a releases for a myriad of respected labels like ESP Institute, Crème Organisation, Hivern Discs, Live At Robert Johnson and Serious Trouble, plus Frey’s own excellent R.I.O Records that is quickly becoming label to watch, it’s pleasure he joins Emotional Response with a fresh, but respectful remake.

Alongside PiL Ltd, Joy Division were the ultimate post punk band, the music, design and untimely passing of lead signer Ian Curtis, creating a mystique around the band that survives today. Opening their second, and final, album Unknown Pleasure, the song is a big part of their history. Frey’s version – with secret vocalist Carla Koller – offer a wide-screen retake, the dub bass and modulated snare wrap around lyrics, while haunting guitar adds to an unease.

Starting with a classic, but perfect Vocal Mix, there is an accompanying Instrumental that together highlight a propulsion and incessant groove, allowing the space between to herald the production’s beauty.

This is backed with a live remake by Lucas Croon. A label fan since his appearances in Stabil Elite, BAR and The Kloom, this Dusseldorf fraternity member continues Emotional Response’s long-standing association with the city. With celebrated releases on Aiwo Recs and Themes From Great Cities, his fireside remix begins as some dub-psyche odyssey before morphing in to a steppas-delight rock out that will capture the open ears and minds.

To close, Frey returns with his own Dub. Possibly the EP’s stand-out, this half step remix sucks the listener to the spaces between, as vocals dissipate and collapse within, bass bins distorting to distraction, the pull of a true and worthy dub symphony.

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Benedikt Frey - She's Lost Control (ft. Carla Koller)

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A ghost producer. A fan. He 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

may the rug be flying high 

promos & bookings : sertacogul@gmail.com
remix and other inquiries please DM

Köylü Kurnazı:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0fzK7nV0s6zai7ZfxcP7PX?si=c6dc818fe6fd4fd6

Cosmic Mosmic :
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SB8Gfz7FFQXlbJbZmIiBn?si=7e93422c025440dc

Bloom Ep : https://open.spotify.com/artist/7v4VFBc9SAWQdfYov7bJif?si=GNFuj5qJTeGAzFuiJKVfSA

As Smooth As - Bloom Ep out now
remix by @kincaidofficial
@bellydanceservices

09.08 Bina İstanbul w/ Taha Kiremitçi
08.02 Kc Lab Novi Sad
07.07 Exit Festival Novi Sad
29.06 Half Belgrade w/ Kezz
15.06 Dev9t Festival Belgrade
08.06 Lasta Belgrade
07.06 Ljubimac Belgrade
31.05 Kc Lab  Novi Sad
18.05 Midnight Orient X Outhide Festival  Belgrad
10.05 Klub Feedback Nis
05.04 Istanbul Gizli Bahçe w/ Fourmi Rouz
03.04 Midnight Orient Istanbul @ KLEIN w/ The Organism & Hanzo & Yaman
22.03 Kontakt Festival  Belgrade
15.03 Kc Lab Novisad
13.03 Kc Grad  Belgrade The Music of the Secret Society that Owns Belgrade
01.03 Feedback Nis
15.02 Kc Lab  Novi Sad
09.02 Midnight Orient X Belgrade of Light Closing Party
19.01 Dvoristance
18.01 Ljubimac
05.01 Arkaoda Istanbul
04.01 KLEIN Istanbul

2019

08.12 Kc Lab Novi Sad
28.12 Alternativa 
21.12 Midnight Orient w/ Menachem 26
23.11 Dot Club
16.11 Midnight Orient w/ Yves Taquet (Goulash Disko)
26.10 Midnight Orient w/ BTCHN & Simply_pierre
13.10 Alternativa | Zrenjanin 
06.10 Peyote w/ Taha Kiremitci & Gunce Aci & Arkas
05.10 Arkaoda w/ Taha Kiremitci
03.10 Flamme w/ Oceanvs Orientalis & Cihangir Cinar
28.09 Midnight Orient All Night Long
07.09 Puberaj | Novisad
30.08 Pristan
23.08 Puberaj | Novisad
18.08  Dream Catcher | Montenegro
10.08  Alternativa | Zrenjanin
09.08 Boho Bar
03.08 Kulturni Centar Grad
27.07 Outhide Festival 
20.07 Dvoristance
19.06 Dev9t Festival
08.06 Midnight Orient w/ Kezz / Johana
02.06 Outhide Festival Promo @ Nis
25.05 Ljubimac
19.05 Aquarius Party w/ Melissa E Logan (Cheeks on Speed), Lira Vega, Ewoxino, Bikini
11.05 Midnight Orient X Goulash Disko w/ Estray / Yves Taquet / As Smooth As
19.04 FAMA 5th  w/ Calavera Manya / Rudhaman / Tinik
13.04  Midnight Orient All Night Long
06.04 Ljubimac 
24.03 Club District, Podgorica
16.03  Midnight Orient
10.03  Dvoristance
01.03   Club 100
22.02 Puberaj, Novisad
02.02 Midnight Orient w/ As Smooth As All Night Long           
                 
                     2018            

29.12 Midnight Orient 2nd Birthday Party
25.11  Kc Grad w/ Superpitcher
16.11  Puberaj, Novisad
08.11 Arkaoda, Istanbul
13.10 Midnight Orient w/ motus.lumina (Vj Duo, Buenos Aires)
30.09 Disco Splav Sloboda
29.09 Galaksija, Pancevo
22.09 Acid Pauli | hosted by Midnight Orient
01.09  Midnight Orient w/ Noema
25.08 Galaksija, Pancevo
19.08    Outhide Festival, Zajecar
05.08   Midnight Orient Matine
15.07    Ljubimac
24.06   Galaksija, Pancevo
16.06    Midnight Orient ::: Sven Marquardt Exhibition Closing Party
29.04   Midnight Orient w/ Kaan Duzarat
24.03   Midnight Orient w/ Mehmet Aslan
18.03    Stab Pogon, Pancevo
04.02.  Midnight Orient Bellydance w/ Johana Bogicevic & Chorbika
03.01.   Huntorak,  Pancevo
  
             2017

17.12.   Stab Pogon, Pancevo
25.12.  Midnight Orient 1st Birthday Party w/ Kristijan Molnar, Vlada Janjic, Ali Guney, Damir Zekiri
22.10.  Stab Pogon,  Pancevo
17.09.  Midnight Orient Sandstorm w/ Banda Panda, WC7, Why Bane Why, Lule, Brka, Schwabe
03.09.  Zaokret
19.08.   Elektropionir
08.08.  Kc Grad
29.07.   Pristan
27.07.   Zaokret
10.07.    Exit Festival
08.07.   Huntorak, Pancevo
17.06.    Midnight Orient w/ Schwabe
08.06.  Favela
28.05.   Midnight Orient All Night Long
29.04.   Zaokret
30.04.   Klub 20/44
15.04.    Midnight Orient w/ Lule
25.03.   Samo Ljubav 3rd Birthday Klub 20/44
19.03.    Midnight Orient w/ Kozmonotosman
11.03.     Zaokret
05.03    Drugstore
26.02    Kriterion, Sarajevo
20.02    Midnight Orient w/ WC7
11.02      Klub Secer
29.01     Zaokret
16.01      Nixon
10.01      Zaokret
09.01.    Kc Grad
02.01     Midnight Orient w/ Dj Brka

              2016

26.12.   Zaokret
11.12.     Bivsi
14.11     Midnight Orient w/ Lule, Dusan Lilic
31.10    Bricolage Lab Closing Party
25.10   Klub 20/44  w/ Gill Klee
15.08   Kc Grad w/ Oceanvs Orientalis

            2015

Benedikt Frey - She's Lost Control (ft. Carla Koller)

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