Out now: POOL JAMS – the new album by INIT 🌊🌀

A soundtrack for sun-soaked city streets and neon-lit dreams. INIT, the Berlin-based duo of Nadia D'Alò and Benedikt Frey, return with their fourth album — a hazy blend of trip hop, dub, trance, and R’n’B grace, all twisted into something uniquely their own. Released on R.i.O., POOL JAMS feels like a faded photo from an empty pool — nostalgic, seductive, and endlessly replayable.

You can dream it. You can trance it. But once it's on, you can’t escape it.
Now streaming everywhere.

#INIT #PoolJams #NewMusic #RIO #ElectronicMusic #DreamSoundtrack

INIT - Carrier

+ @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

soundofsilence

📩 luxo@tuta.io 
🍄 jesuscanlove@gmail.com

Nadia D'Alò  aka DALO 
@initinit / @riolabel 
booking: contactserioustroubleATgmail.com
Live 
07.06.24 Studio db,  Berlin
27.01.24 Tresor, Berlin
09.12.23 Pip, The Hague 
15.09.23 Cafe KOZ Open Air, Frankfurt 
15.07.23 Golden Pudel, Hamburg
26.05.23 OHM, Berlin 
29.04.23 Tresor, Berlin
04.03.23 Bunker, Torino (Italy)
23.10.22  INIT Live, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Berlin 
27.08.22  INIT Live, about blank, Berlin
17.04.22  Warning, about blank, Berlin

Death to imperialism. 🔻🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🔻
🔻𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 for freedom. Also I urge us to globalize & escalate revolt against the plain fascist rhetoric&crimes of colonial states. Don't like the music (pun intended) of those "white mediocrity trademark" nz boots.
F R E E ' ' P A L E S T I N E  🌿🍉 
& ALL PEOPLE STILL STRANGLED BY WHITE MEDIOCRITY IMPERIALISM.
Enthusiast musical tourist = knows her shit/doesn't know shit #jetshlag
~Random is freedom~ No goal is the goal
~Music is my spine~ Shlag&snob
🔻ACAB can't still be a debate for fck sake
🔻AFA is like breathing. Not being AFA, well: u're FA.
🔻Glorious are resistances, for reclaiming space and time for us to exist (or try to), for their dedication to end occupations🔻
#punchanazi

"𝓲𝓯 𝔀𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓲𝓽, 𝔀𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓵𝓵 ... 𝓼𝓲𝓽 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓵𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱.
𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓘 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵, 𝓽𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓻𝓸𝔀, ...  𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓻𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰."
[𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂] "𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓮𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱"

Avec "sa vie fut un bide" sur urne à facettes svp, parce que je t'écris pas de la Cour du Crimson King mais d'un pays tout petit petit...

"𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒈𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆, 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆,
𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆"
...I now know it is a wishful high hopes thinking.
"isolation" said I. Curtis.

R.i.O. is a record label founded by @freybenedikt @menqui & @daloworks . With their shared passion for a broad range of music they established this new outlet in order to shift perceptions of reality.

@riolabel , @optimo-music @hivern_disc
booking: 
contactserioustrouble(@)gmail.com

past:
22.10.2022 Panorama Bar, berlin
31.08.21 Tanzhaus West, ffm
27.08.21 Rosnička, Czech Republic
17.01.20 Oetinger Villa, Darmstadt
14.08.19 Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
26.07.19 Detect Festival, Neubrandenburg
12.05.19 XJAZZ Festival, Berlin
10.11.18  Pluton, Moscow, Russia
27.10.18 Opium Club, Vilnius, Lithuania
01.09.18  About Blank, Berlin
25.08.18 Galerie Kurzweil, Darmstadt
04.08.18 Garbicz Festival, Poland
15.07.18 Else, Berlin
31.03.18 Robert Johnson, Offenbach
28.09.17 Rex Club, Paris
04.08.17 About Blank, Berlin
18.06.16 Berghain, Berlin
09.04.16 Robert Johnson Boiler Room, Offenbach
20.11.15 Nitsa Club, Barcelona

Upcoming DJ gigs:
>>>see my IG<<<

@neoviolence label head (RIP), Prague based DJ, promoter (used to be) & electronic music enthusiast.
Radio host at @radiopunctum.
Resident DJ & booker for Groove Bar.