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Recorded in Nuertingen for the Intergalactic FM Streaming Festival 2021

TRACKLIST:
01 LA LUNA SOTTO IL PONTE - Celeste Sensibile
02 AN ANOMALI - Concrete Chorus
03 SIERRA SAM & SUBURBAN KNIGHT - Alpha Game
04 D.I.E. - Out With Tha Old
05 ISOLATING - Sacrament (M.W. Cut)
06 ATOM TM - Almost A Unit (0.9) (M.W. Cut)
07 LIKE THE SNOW - The Damage (M.W. Cut)
08 JOHNFAUSTUS - Phoebe
09 PASCHEN'S LAW - Magnifying Transmitter
10 JUNE - Infinity Room
11 OPPENHEIMER MK II - Out In The Fields

Mick Wills @ Intergalactic FM Streaming Festival 2021

Here´s the title track from our next release NAVA by @freybenedikt & @tohinc

Order here:
https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/benedikt-frey-tim-toh-nava

Distribution:
https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1634121441/Benedikt-Frey-and-Tim-Toh-NAVA

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Music Video

Benedikt Frey & Tim Toh - Neu (ft. Lisa Toh & Niklas Wandt)

Title Track of Benedikt Frey's debut EP on Malka Tuti.
Record is released 17/01/2023

Recall

Benedikt Frey - Recall

https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
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🛒 https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane
🔊 https://youtu.be/nVzU6dgMxek

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey - Crank [ESP Institute]

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BANDCAMP

Benedikt Frey - Sei Wer Du Bist

Benedikt Frey makes his debut on Rhythmic Culture Records with ‘Hoover’. The German producer–known for his previous work on labels such as ESP Institute, Hivern Discs and his own R.i.O. imprint–delivers a 4-track EP that is a journey through the breakbeat spectrum with a distinct focus on sonic experimentation. From the hypnotic dynamic in ‘Blue Lights’ complimented by the vocals of DALO, to the intriguing dance floor rhythms in ‘Henry’ and ‘Deadlines’ and downtempo mesmerising track ‘Trees’, ‘Hoover’ puts another side of Frey’s work in the limelight.

Hoover

Deadlines

Benedikt Frey - Deadlines

Neud Photo 28/02/25

Eng below
Отаке електро нам до смаку! Київська діджейкиня Makido, яка є родом з Донецька, сьогодні дарує нам понтовий електро мікс. Вже давно помічено, шо тяга до машинного, важкого музла яскраво проявлена у людей, які провели дитинство поряд із виробництвом, або індустріальних містах, як от міста сходу та півдня України. Темне, глибоке, гулке та круте електро, це те, під яке хочеться вриватись в центрі майданчика з сабами, а не сумувати про красиве і непонятне десь в кутку. Це прямолінійна але потужна музика, велкам кайфувати і робити свої справи разом під цей сет від Makido!  

We like that kind of electro! Kyiv DJ Makido, who is originally from Donetsk, gives us a superb electro mix today. It has been noticed long ago that the craving for machine, heavy music is clearly manifested among people who spent their childhood near production, or in industrial cities, such as cities of the east and south of Ukraine. Dark, deep, booming and cool electro is the kind that makes you wanna burst into the center of the venue with subwoofers, and not miss with the beautiful and incomprehensible tunes somewhere in the corner. This is straightforward but powerful music, welcome to get high and do your business together to this set from Makido!

DISK_D Character 004: Makido

Catch the dynamic bass selection & move from ravish breaks & electric grooves to leftfield rhythms & techno madness.

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HANT

HUM w/ Bakunn b2b elija @ Otel' - 02/11/2024

Katia Stieber@Strichka

Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

Text ML

INIT - Pinata

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Fam Mixtape with @hipushit.
On the collage-like nature of the mix and a childhood-born sense of beauty — read his commentary:

“In my mixes, I often try to create a collage of dissimilar, contrasting, sometimes even opposing tracks. One condition of the collage approach is that the result should feel like a whole — all the elements blending into unexpected harmony.

A mix on a physical medium feels special to me. So, beyond the collage approach, I tried to reflect a few more bits of magic that matter to me in the art of DJing — the balance between the dance of the body and the dance of the mind, a sense of timelessness, and my own idea of beauty.

By the way, the artwork — a wildflower with thorns and spikes — is one of those things that shaped my sense of beauty as a kid. I used to believe they were planted by aliens.”

Fam Mixtape 003 - Hipushit

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Out Now! Digital + Vinyl
https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/

Imagine

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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

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