https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
https://soundcloud.com/serioustrouble
https://soundcloud.com/riolabel
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/dusanlilic / https://soundcloud.com/banda-panda
🔊 https://youtu.be/6WKaw-kz7cI

German producer with releases on ESP Institute and Live At Robert Johnson is back in LAYERworld with his second mix for the series. Love Pain Sunshine & Rain/Serious Trouble/R.i.O. founder, and one of the most beloved selectors of the leftfield arena, Benedikt Frey, is contributing with his signature imaginative picks. 

It takes about three seconds for Benedikt Frey to suck you into his world/whorehouse/opium den. We see him apply that recipe to his LAYER, too. For Frey, each transition is a chance for a U-turn or a speeding ticket, which makes this an unforgettable mix.

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LAYER #285 | Benedikt Frey

Since learning the ropes in Glasgow’s underground with early releases on Optimo Music and a residency at the famous Art School club, Thomas Lea Clarke aka https://soundcloud.com/mrtcmusic has spent the past 10 years delving into the recesses of experimental electronic club music with his own productions, playing live shows, doing some remixes, mixing and meeting a lot of people along the way. We first met in 2016 both spinning at a Blue Cheese party. These days he works at a radio station and tends to https://soundcloud.com/phasegroup, the label he started with Lo Kindre.

His hobbies are spending time on his own recording sounds, or to be with close ones, eating something good, having a drink and sharing a moment. He runs to keep fit and likes spending time in nature whenever he can. He's easily distracted, not sure if that’s a bad thing though - if he's good at working on multiple things at once, or bad at focusing on one thing at a time.

His mix meanders through some kind of dreamspace with ghostly appearances. He's in no hurry but quickly grabs you by the throat. 'Wherever you may go in life… just don't stop the dance'
« This mix feels like wondering through a dream, lost in bright fog at night. Searching for something you can’t remember but feeling like you’re getting closer. »

NOSE JOB 38 — MR TC

A Mix I recorded for the 'Call Now!' series #33 containing loads of unreleased material

Benedikt Frey - Troubled Funk MixX #3

Recorded live at the creek beginning of June '24 by Andrea Ida 🦥
@andrea_ida

Andrea Ida — KuH 2024

An unexpected sequel, exploring the same records and moods as a previous recording in Beijing. This is taken from a recent show for Nurture x Liminal Dreams at The Observatory in Saigon. The plan had been a full spectrum set, but the energy did not feel right. Instead, I decided to play warm and comforting beats, focusing on my musical 'childhood', records from the late 90s - mid 00s. The mixing and presentation is meant to be gentle and relaxing. Enjoy.

Love songs in Saigon

forwards and backwards through bits of a [mostly] electronic music timeline. reverence for BCR. records i’ve played forever and new records i’ve just found. boil it down. one z in drizle. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/drizlefm-w-plo-man/episodes/drizlefm-w-plo-man-6th-march-2025

drizle.FM w/ PLO MAN ft. Olya Smok 060325

2 hours of fun for the first edition of Lockin' - a new and free daytime party on our beloved Misc rooftop. After sets by Kimi & Dr.Fetch aka @drftctch <3

Lolo @ Lockin' / Miscellania rooftop 05.04.25

The Slow Brown Fox giving the space a sonic bath at the beginning of the recent MUTANTHEADS party at Sameheads....

Enjoy this gem of a mix from a gem of a Dj.

x

The Slow Brown Fox - MUTANTHEADS @ Sameheads 05.04.25

Straight outta Neukölln: Artem Ikra on deck duty – tune in now! 👾

Artem Ikra[13.05.25]

⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ claws x cartel ✧.*
@claws2 @cartelmusiccollective

flaws

christoph kummerer - electronics
martin stepanek - electronics

recorded live at Rhiz, Vienna, 15.1.2008

gapless recording:
https://soundingfunctions.bandcamp.com/track/live-at-rhiz-1512008

get it!

burn those idle cycles - Live at Rhiz, 15.1.2008  p5

+ @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

Benedikt Frey - Troubled Funk MixX #3

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