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Benedikt blending first time only experimental in-house projects by himself & INIT Find the Interview with @https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt at: https://riolabel.com/riocasts

RIOCAST02 Benedikt Frey - Do Easy Archive

Productions for mind, body and soul. From bistro No Limit's basement to the dancefloors of the World. 

Just thanks and love for everything!

LAF Podcast #017 | Benedikt Frey

Benedikt Frey, German producer, DJ and founder of the label Love Pain Sunshine & Rain in charge of number 16 — A true favourite of ours, a real DJ with serious taste and an idiosyncratic way of harmoniously weaving everything together.

DUMMY MIX 016: Benedikt Frey

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

Benedikt Frey - Troubled Funk MixX #3

packed warmup, people dancing to jazz, a night to remember! <3

Live At Rex Club Paris 20 - 03 - 15

INIT is the musical partnership of Frankfurt-based duo Nadia D’Alò and Benedikt Frey. The Rhein-Main duo’s first EP Talking About Talking / Blackbird on John Talabot‘s Hivern Discs marries dank electronics and shadowy atmospheres with Nadia’s disembodied vocals to cold and brutal effect. With remixers from New York’s Willie Burns to The Hague’s Cliff Lothar, INIT join the dots between wave-ish DIY minimalism and the kind of dread synthesizers that have characterised industrial neighbourhoods around the world.

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/init-train-wreck-mix

RBMA Radio - Train Wreck Mix

'Meilensteine 04' is an unmixed compilation of songs and tracks
which had a big influence on Robert Johnson resident Benedikt Frey.

Tracklist:
Dadawah - Run Come Rally
Count Basic - Speechless
Massive Attack - Heat Miser
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Live At Frameworks Munich
Miles Davis - Assasinat (Take 3)
Jah Wobble - Hill In Korea
Jah Wobble - Journey To Death
Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti - Rain Forest
Tony Scott - Prahna
Vito Ricci - Inferno
Air - Impression
Zola Jesus & LA Vampires - In the Desert
Breakage - So Vain
Cabaret Voltaire - Obsession
Rheingold - Dreiklangsdimensionen
Ideal - Telepathie
E. Thomass - Sea Flora
Scientist - Your Teeth In My Neck
Massive Attack - Special Cases
Beachhead - Beams
Dj Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
Ash Ra Tempel - Bring Me Up
Stereo Mc's - Ground Level
The Congos - Congo Man (Carl Craig Edit)
Calibre - Highlander
Snoop Doogy Dogg - Blueberry
Moodymann - We Don't Care

MEILENSTEINE 04 - AN UNMIXED COMPILATION by Benedikt Frey

Red Wine C Mix

a little recording session together with @menqui

B&M - Cup Of Joe Mix

"German producer Benedikt Frey likes to challenge both DJs and dancers by writhing unpredictable tracks, with the aim to push against the boundaries of functional and "safe" dance music. Although he had been producing for five years previously, his career upped a notch in 2015 upon releasing five separate records, among those Ghosts best demonstrates his penchant for shambling groove. From there, his productions went from strength to strength, culminating in a full-length album in 2018, Artificial, which abandoned club sensibility in favour of low-slung chugging rhythms. Frey's debut single, 2010's Escape/Indica, saw a low-key release on Aldebaran, causing him to step back for a couple of years to further his craft. Upon his return in 2012 Frey had amassed a wealth of material, which he spread across three labels: releasing Fairytale on Mule Electronics, Running in Circles on Live at Robert Johnson, and Delinquencies, the latter of which he released through his newly minted record label Love Pain Sunshine Rain (aka Lopasura). Frey once again stored most of his music for a further two years, springing back in 2015 with another barrage of records; amongst them were his breakthrough EP Ghosts on Crème Organization and a full-length album, 2015's Two Pole Resonance, recorded as @initinit in collaboration with @nadia-d-al and released via @hivern_disc . Frey released his debut EP for ESP Institute in 2016, titled The Lobbyist, before going on to release his debut solo album, 2017's Artificial, on the same label. He spent two years recording the album, deciding to veer away from a record full of high tempo tracks, instead delivering a broader take on his ramshackle productions, partly inspired by industrial music."


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Phormix Podcast #182 Benedikt Frey

+ @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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