https://odopt.bandcamp.com/album/lower-ground-floor-ii

Our second digital release is a collection of secret cuts, double edits, edits turned into original tracks, and dub versions of classics. All were made during the last 9 years for private use, experimental live gigs, and podcasts. At some point, it was obvious that these five pieces must be a part of the new Lower Ground Floor Series. Please support and share. Art by Kei. Mixing and mastering by Lipelis.

Lower Ground Floor II

TFGC022 - Mekine U Teksi - Steppenroboter versus Transeuropa

Evocative and spooky contemporary prog. Mekine U Teksi has absolutely nailed it to fetishist levels. It sounds like the synths were certainly the only thing keeping the castle warm the night this was recorded.
The whole record is made even more unnerving by the fact that the 4th track doesn't exist... scary!
Words by Mark Cremins

Worldwide Vinyl Availibility via @rushhour_distribution

TFGC022 - Mekine U Teksi - 01  Totschaften

Part 2 of Khidja's debut LP Transmissions.
5 fresh tracks written & produced by Andrei Rusu and Florentin Tudor.

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : Khidja - Under Stressure

get it HERE

Suicide - Ghostrider (Benedikt Frey Edit)

R.i.O. welcomes Brainwave Research Center, a NYC-based duo consisting of house/techno producer Chase Smith and documentary filmmaker Christa Majoras. In early 2023 they freed their debut album “figure 1” via their own label BRC. Two more albums followed. All documenting their love for experimental yet charming music of all kinds.

Their influences span a vast spectrum, from Steve Reich, Laurie Spiegel, and Edgar Froese to Martin Rev, John Carpenter, early Kraftwerk, or the ambient techno of Pete Namlook’s Fax +49-69/45046 label. Yet, Brainwave Research Center forges a sound distinctly their own, seamlessly blending analog synthesis with electro-acoustic experimentation.

On “Psychic Antenna”, the duo takes a gentle rawer approach. The tracks range from the manic verbal Die-Tödliche-Doris-like loops of "I Find Myself" to the meditative cosmic trance of "Open Your Mouth." "Orange Drop" and "Transmitter Park" toy with the dancefloor, channeling slow-motion acid trance and krautrock echoes.

The release is rounded out by three remixes: R.i.O.’s own Benedikt Frey delivers a deep, trippy groover full of inner musicality, while close companion DALO crafts a dark, echo-drenched pop rework, and Berlin’s Nathan Dawidowicz injects psyched nu-disco rhythms, expanding “Psychic Antenna” into seven notions of intense neural oscillations.

ML

Brainwave Research Center - Orange Drop

We are delighted to announce our takeover collaboration with DARK is the new DISCO from Tunis. Hailing from the pulsating heartbeats of Tunisia’s underground electronic scene, JewishMRGL comes with his audacious fusion of Synthwave, Cold Wave and Dark Wave elements for guest mix no. 101! 

Follow: @jewishmrgl & @darkdiscotn

Artwork: @silent-shouts

Tracklist:

01. Identified Patient - Het Geweten Van Afdeling Twee
02. Iro Aka - Будущее (Anatolian Weapons Remix)
03. Neud Photo - Suspicion
04. Sansibar - Wallah (SANS DJ Mix)
05. Shokh - Torotam
06. Sophie Du Palais - Disco Nihilist
07. Vltra Delta Drive - El Complot
08. White Magik - Total Ego Loss (Randolph Mortimer Remix) 
09. Identified Patient - Lucy's Comeback
10. Abby Knives - Energy Collapse
11. Savage Grounds - Sex is Violence
12. 4Cantons - La Faraona
13. NOVOSTI KULTURI - CHELOVEK 
14. Baroque feat. Philosophique Girl - La Telepathie
15. Moonoton - Frau (Facets Remix)
16. Black Light Smoke - Work feat. Léah Lazonick (Happy707 Remix)
17. Chino - Shiny Leather (Olivia Remix)
18. Ye Gods - Flames Fall From The Sky


Blank Wave Guest Mix 101 x DARK is the new DISCO: JewishMRGL

FLP:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/azgf8b8rn5kht5e/Death_so_beutifull_2.flp/file

MUSIC:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/is73gresr7at70s/Death_so_beutifull_2.wav/file

Youtube Video:

https://youtu.be/sVk03gmQtPE?si=RtZajadtScUgxb64

LYRICS:

All my atrocities
Come by way of reciprocity
I'm chewing the bones of my own reprieve
Death be my dignity
Execute hemlock philosophy
Poison fills the cup of the carpenter

I can see them everywhere they're
All around me they're
Waiting for me.
Descending un-
Relenting.
Beauty of annihilation.

No!
Love lost on me
More!
Life so costly
No reason
For grieving
No
love lost on me
More
life so costly
Bring me down with
Seven point six two high velocity

Death so beautiful
Looks so beautifu-ul
Death so beautiful
Looks so beautiful on me

And everyone dies
and everyone lies
They're waiting for the second coming again
Everyone tries to hold onto their lives
When no one's alive
Bring me 115

I know it, I feel it
I know when you're sleeping
I know the things you're dreaming
And I know you will never give up and die

DEATH SO BEAUTIFUL V2 [A STORYFELL CHARA MEGALOVANIA]

Dark Daze

B2 - Reserves To Talk

taken from Supreme Rallentato Vol 1 https://frontdecadeaux.bandcamp.com/album/supreme-rallentato-volume-1

Front de Cadeaux -  Dolcemente (87 BPM)

Fragments 6

Written and Produced by Mioclono
Artwork by Dr. Me

Digital release date: February 27, 2020
Order here: bit.ly/39s4GGU
© 2019 Hivern Discs

Fragments 6

Center Of Things

Mioclono - Center Of Things

+ @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

Suicide - Ghostrider (Benedikt Frey Edit)

benedikt frey