benedikt frey - mix for deepafterhour

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Shows 2025:

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

Selected past shows:

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

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