<3 Acidlab Miami / SH101 / Space Echo Re201 <3
#download gate via Hype Music, 
happy #quarantine

drawing by Roogomes

DoWnLoAd

Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (Benedikt Frey Reconstruction)

+ @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

contact/bookings: mod.flac@gmail.com

upcoming & past gigs
2025
24-10-25 - IMANU de Verte ADE, Melkweg, Amsterdam 


past gigs
2025
25-07-25 - Liquicity Summer Festival, Geestmerambacht
04-07-25 - Turn The World On, b2b Jenst, Radio Tempo Não Pára, Amsterdam
09-05-25 - IMANU de Verte, MEZZ, Breda
05-04-25 - Creek & friends, Stupid, Amsterdam
07-02-25 - Blackout XL, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht

2024
09-11-24 - Open Source Radio - The FemDem, Nijmegen
02-11-24 - Relate Radio, Groningen
26-10-24 - Echobox Radio - Curated by w/ mod & Bismuth, Amsterdam
19-10-24 - IMANU de Verte, Melkweg, Amsterdam
31-08-24 - Zuiderzeeweg festival, Amsterdam

2023 
12-08-23 - Nox on the Beach, Eindhoven
31-07-23 - Il Memento, Kloster Graefenthal
21-07-23 - Liquicity Summer Festival, Geestmerambacht
27-05-23 - Club Leider Nicht @  komm schon Alter, Amsterdam
17-03-23 - Spuistreet Records stream, Amsterdam

2022
30-12-22 - Liquicity Winter Festival, Maassilo, Rotterdam
23-12-22 - Beats 'n Bass, MYLC, Eindhoven
20-10-22 - IMANU presents UNFOLD, Melkweg, Amsterdam
14-10-22 - Rolling in the Deep, De Helling, Utrecht
27-08-22 - Zuiderzeeweg festival, Amsterdam
11-06-22 - Club Leider Nicht @ komm schon Alter, Tuinen van West, Amsterdam
14-05-22 - Echobox Radioshow, Amsterdam
20-04-22 - FMG Party, Club Lovelee, Amsterdam
08-04-22 - Studio Pandora @ Blackout, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
25-02-22 - RE:Rolling in the Deep, De Helling, Utrecht

2020 / 2021
22-10-21 - Rolling in the Deep, De Helling, Utrecht
28-02-20 - Rolling in the Deep, De Helling, Utrecht
19-02-20 - Stranded FM radioshow, Utrecht

2019
23-08-19 - VENOM, Het Magazijn, Den Haag
26-07-19 - Spuistreet Records stream, Amsterdam
06-07-19 - Zuiderzeeweg festival, Amsterdam
02-06-19 - The Last Resort, Oosterbar, Amsterdam
26-04-19 - Spuistreet Records stream, Amsterdam

Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (Benedikt Frey Reconstruction)

benedikt frey