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Dropping their second Corpus compilation, Ransom Note Records offshoot Insult To Injury showcases gems from the label, past and present. Focusing on remixes from early digital releases, augmented with a brand new mix of Timothy Clerkin, these four dance floor weapons see a release on their rightful format, 12” wax. 

Opening proceedings with a meditative, shadowy remix of Timothy Clerkin’s Primary Function, Berlin’s Shokh takes us down into the depths, showcasing his masterful production skills with a lofi trip into the darkness.

Corpus Vol.2

Timothy Clerkin - Primary Function (Shokh 12" Remix)

Buy at: luridmusic.bandcamp.com

Alex from Lurid Music:

'Aggelos first approached Lurid Music with the idea for this project a few months ago. We agreed on one condition, that all proceeds be donated to refugee causes, like we did with his Black Sea EP which supported the Syrian refugee crisis. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we decided our focus had to be helping the Ukrainian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in search of safe havens abroad.

We discussed this with most contributors to the project and the consensus was that donations should strictly go to humanitarian groups and not any armament funds. There were also some thoughts about helping conflict-affected peoples in other parts of the world but we decided it was too much to tackle for a relatively small project like this one.

Therefore, donations stemming from the sales of this release will be distributed to the following humanitarian groups currently active in Ukraine or neighboring countries welcoming refugees:

- International Medical Corps: internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-…n-ukraine/
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights - Ukraine Urgent Response Fund: urgentactionfund.org
- Polish Humanitarian Action: www.pah.org.pl/en/donate/
- World Central Kitchen: wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
credits
released April 1, 2022

Original tracks written and produced by Aggelos Baltas.

Remix duties handled by the following, thank you for bringing your "A game" to this project: A Hand, Adhémar, Aditya Permana, Anna vs June, Ayaz, Black Seed, Bunzinelli, BXP, Cantillate, Christian Coiffure, DimDJ, Facets, Frank Butters, GK Machine, Infuso Giallo, Itzel, Jacques Satre, Krokakai, Komodo, Koyil, Misha Sultan, Mr. TC, NVST, Pannotia, Petros Spatharos, Philipp Otterbach, Poperttelli, Sepehr, Skynet 75, A Strange Wedding, Sun Genam, Tadan, Tagliabue, Tassilo Vanhöfen, T.D.O.S., Théo Muller, Vidock, YNV, Zillas On Acid.

We were fortunate to receive pro bono contributions from four highly-esteemed mastering engineers: Taylor Dupree (www.12kmastering.com), Brian Kage (kagemastering.squarespace.com), Dietrich Schoenemann (completemastering.com) and Tim Vitek (timvitekmastering.com). We are thankful for their meticulous work, especially to Dietrich for enlisting his fellow engineers to help with the massive remix load, 44 tracks are definitely too much for one person to listen to in such a short span.

The artwork was provided by Bill Brown, a Maryland native who lives and works in Ukraine. When the war started, he made his way safely to Germany via Poland. This illustration is an homage to Maria Prymachenko’s “May That Nuclear War be Cursed!”, which also inspired the title of this release. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/takomabill/.

T-shirt screen printing was kindly provided by Nolan, a grindcore bassist from Washington DC. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/malokul202/'

Vol.1

Black Sea (Sepehr Remix)

A1 Holes In My CV
A2 Time
A3 Snowglobe

B1 NRGY
B2 Module
B3 N.O.D.

INIT is Benedikt Frey & Nadia D’Alò. We are delighted to present their long delayed vinyl and digital album, NRGY.

Born out of various art performances and installations, INIT states a logical outcome of Berlin based duo Nadia D'Alò and Benedikt Frey. With heavy use of analogue synthesis and drum-machines, INIT rethinks its genre's sonic approach, unfolding a unique and organic, yet alienating sound, somewhere in the mysterious midst of Acid, Techno, Ambient and Kraut-Rock. 

This is INIT's third album, following two releases on Hivern Discs, and performances at clubs such as Berghain, Robert Johnson and Pudel Club.

INIT say - 

Module, NRGY, and Time were reverse extracted out of our live set and re-recorded and re-arranged after we realised how well they work in clubs. It is the first time we worked this way as we tend not to play our compositions live, like we produced them. Mostly we just extract loops out of our production to mess around with in a loose live project. 

Snowglobe, Holes In My CV and N.O.D. were more built up from a studio jam plus a bulletproof-ish arrangement afterwards. 

Tried and tested on dance floors this is a surefire hit album on the dancefloor, and at home. NRGY!

Released on vinyl (and digital) on 27/05/2022. Distributed by Kompakt.

OM LP 22 - INIT - NRGY album sampler (vinyl / digital)

Single Release of "Attitude" out today on Bandcamp! It comes with a hot music video by Californias' one and only Jennifer Juniper Stratford. 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGfEFBYApo
Buy: https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/1987

Music Video

RIO09 // Benedikt Frey - Attitude

habit

She's Lost Control (Dub)

Cowper’s ‘Minus Eight’ is a low, slow, dark and experimental track that goes deep into hypnotic psychedelia weaving together a woozy trip of ambient, new beat, EBM and Goa trance ⭕️

With a soundscape as eclectic as it is bass-heavy, it’s no wonder Cowper comes from the counter-cultural hub of Bristol, the UK city known for stretching the limits of sound, where he runs the Between Stations party and a monthly show on Noods Radio ✖️

Full VA coming out in September...

Come see Cowper play at our launch event on 20th September - tickets here: https://hdfst.uk/e112536

@bencowper
@david-j-bull
@aaddiitya
@wormbox

PREMIERE: Cowper - Minus Eight [Paradia]

Premiere of the track "Tiney Party" by Andrea Noce aka Eva Geist and Alexander Arpeggio, taken from their upcoming release on R.i.O. Label.
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Artist: @andreanoce & @alexanderarpeggio
Track: "Tiney Party"
Title: "Loved Up"
Label: @riolabel
Format: 12" + DL
Mastering by FPSF
Design and typography by Omnigroup
Distribution by Word & Sound
Release date: September 27, 2024 
Pre-order: https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/andrea-alexander-loved-up

Premiere: Andrea & Alexander - Tiney Party [RIO15]

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

Ambulance

The Bigger Tutti

TRIPS Album

03 Benedikt Frey - Rhythm for the Algorhythmned

01 60 BPM

Full stream of Benedikt Frey's haunting "Private Crimes," a cut from his new album on ESP Institute. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/09/premiere-hear-a-haunting-cut-from-benedikt-freys-debut-album/

@freybenedikt
@esp-institute

[ESP048] Artificial

More info

Premiere: Benedikt Frey - Private Crimes

Tassilo Vanhöfen - Matama Irriqula

introducing Dolphins & JATIBE
all productions from our 13359 headquarter. sticker design: Julian Sulz 
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https://serioustrouble.bandcamp.com/


https://www.discogs.com/Dolphins-8-JATIBE-Mehr-Entspannung/release/13311235

SETR006 Dolphins / JATIBE

Even a historical pandemic couldn't take summer hits away from our hearts. Exceptional circumstances means extraordinary compilation.

Worst Records' hall of fame welcomes new faces around the pool for a 13-stages enlightened drama. You'll meet again with the top 3 podium made of A Strange Wedding, Jacques Satre and Christian Coiffure, all rensponsible for our first three releases, building up a mesmerizing, out of season mental workout. Extending the dimension of trance towards Saint-Etienne, Del.Duc brings on a curious yet serene astral travel, and we can also count on the distant reinforcements from the Toulouse Gouffre Club crew with Jan Loup and her glitch spangled hazy dub from far futures and the new trance comer from Bordeaux, Lazuli.
Special friends are also gathering here, as Myako is sewing on thin fabric a vaporous dub in shades of grey, the one-and-only master touki Théo Muller delivers a cinematic remedy to confinement.
Liberation through hearing, it is, as borders explode with the presence of many : Yin Yang Audio in a transatlantic IDM/break jump, Forest on Stasys (aka Mental Resonance) and his tough shamanic dance, Clemens Friedrich slowing down all senses at once and JEANS, boss of Oracle Bones, speeding us up in the hyperloop.
Finally, as teamwork means a lot, we have given the pleasure to open this compilation to the four-headed Lausanne/Freiberg hydra 4POTR and their cryptic transdimensional message, and the honor of closing this pool party to the 404 trio gem from Candoblé with a fine piece of wonder.

Not exactly your usual summer compilation, nor the hits you could imagine, but surely the music you'll need under the hot sun of 2020.

Free download on Bandcamp : bit.ly/2YJz0e1 🌀

Design by Elie Pesqué
Words by Alexandre Richet
 Mastered by Jules Payen
Selection by Les Fils de Jacob

Download on Bandcamp

Del.Duc - Prométhée (Low Break Mix)

+ @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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