music played in venues

Had so much fun recording this set @refugeworldwide :)

Vibo - Zondagsplicht
S.M. Nurse - Schatten
TodoTodo - Megaciclos de Verano
S.M. Nurse - She
Crash Course In Science - Flying Turns
Daily Fauli - Speed 
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
DAF - Ich Will
Oto - Anyway 
Modern Art - Hello / Goodbye
Martin Dupont - Pure Delight (Original Mix)
Martin Dupont - Inside Out
Satis - Crvel 
Euroshima - Matando Sueños
Tout Debord - Rester là
Velvet Condom - Samt Und Stein
Lost Desert - Étrange Satire
Stoic Plays - Spatial Relation
Stranger - One Day (unreleased original version)

Dreams of Pleasure #3, Refuge Worldwide, 09.12.2022

Mastered by Conor Dalton.

Set time: 23:00-01:00. 

1. Robert Henke - Layer 003 (Original Mix)
2. Robert Henke - Piercing Music (Original Mix)
3. Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya 1 (Original Mix)
4. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree - Live In London (Original Mix)
5. Thomas Koner - Teimo (Schluss) (Original Mix)
6. Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1407020 (Original Mix)
7. Porter Ricks - Biokinetics 2 (Original Mix)
8. Cio D’Or - Pailletten (Original Mix)
9. Loss Of Balance - Denso
10. Imugem Orihasam - Bronpo (Original Mix)
11. Ogend  - Hydralius
12. Ness & Rasmus Hedland - Punto Kokous (Edit Select Remix)
13. Pulso AS - Vander (Original Mix)
14. Jesus Riaсo & Sed - Travel
15. Van Morph - Deep Pink (Original Mix)
16. Teste - The Wipe (Mike Parker Remix)
17. Orbe - QB-1 
18. The Ripped - Silencio Negro
19. Desroi - Glis
20. Rhombic - Pampa De Achala
21. Berkel - Lucente Oscuritа
22. Urquiaga - Birds Speed Mayhem
23. stndrd - The Grief of Equilibrium of Nothingness (Original Mix)
24. Pyramidal Decode - Syrus
25. Vladmir - Rigor Mortis
26. Ricardo Garduno - Took Smiles Away
27. Dark Quadrant - Sineshifter
28. LON - Addicted to It Self
29. Abstract Division - Dissonance (Original Mix)
30. Pyramidal Decode, Translate Mindfulness - Translate Remix
31. Morion  - 001
32. Lucas SIlvero - Century of Light (feat. Jonas Kopp) [Jonas Kopp Remix]
33. Oniks - Millepora (Max_M Remix)

Tresor New Faces hosted by Laura BCR, Tresor, April 26th, 2023-

This project is inspired from the work of Maria Chavez's “abstract turntablism” and Rabih Beaini's technical approach to using the DJ set. In this project I attempt to revisit the notion of a hybrid DJ set.

Performance title: Revisiting the DJ set.

Video of the performance: https://youtu.be/zOlawhdJkEs?si=M7XPtH0DNjJ5KR2c

Technical approach: 

Channel 1: Piezo connected to a running DDR alarm clock via a field recorder. 

Channel 2: A sound piece I composed running through Ableton. It starts at min 10:22 till the end of the set.
This sound piece was composed using recordings of Lebanese / Levantine instruments like the Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla with field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, spoken/broken words in my native tongue, and other acoustic and electro-acoustic sources. 

Channel 3: Playing the Soma Synth Pulsar-23.

Channel 4: loops/tempo change using Sampler/Sampled Mazen Kerbaj Trumpet Solo Vol. 3 on CD.

Using delay, filter effects, and panning of the Pioneer DJM-900 mixer.

Revisiting the DJ set, at ACUD, on 29/07/2023

an INSIJAM "opening" inspired club set - 

set time: 21:30-22:30

mastered by Conor Dalton

5 Years Codex Club - 09.12.2023 - Panke Culture - Berlin

video recording by Pablo Hassmann here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6q7QI6qdmM

thank you for our friends who joined our beautiful night along side Zone Null and Ansgar Willen - 


this sound performance was very much centered around the cassette "Liban: 20 poèmes pour un amour - Nadia Tuéni - dits par Catherine Sellers et Pierre Tabard"

Laptop - playing the main sound piece i did by manipulating Lebanese/Levantine instruments - mainly the Oud and the Nay -

Soma Cosmos - manipulating a Cassette looper / tempo changer by repeaterclub that is playing the cassette "Liban: 20 poèmes pour un amour - Nadia Tuéni - dits par Catherine Sellers et Pierre Tabard" and another Cassette Player mainly playing the Canard Sound - both were found in small music shops in Beirut -

Soma Pulsar 23 -

Koma Electronics Field Kit -

leaf audio microphonic playground -

A cat shaped Metronome Wittner Taktell -

Yamaha MG10XUF mixer -

mastered by Conor Dalton -

EXPERIMONTAG - INSIJAM live at Madame Claude - January 8th, 2024 -

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Back To Basics  - Rami Abi Rafi - 07 Mar 2025

Rami Abi Rafi’s work captures the essence of his migratory experiences. Born in the UK and of Lebanese heritage, he nowadays bridges between two burdened and deeply absorbing cities: Berlin and Beirut. The journey from London to Beirut, and current presence in Berlin, breathes the life into his work and inspired him to harmonize these influences in the different facets of his oeuvre.

As a DJ, Sound Artist, and Photographer, Rami's practice reflects a life lived at the crossroads of cultures and places. Subtly confronting and surprising, his works aim to empower imagination as they retell stories through music. They are an invitation to explore themes of memory, time, migration and forced existential exile. 

His first live performance was in Madame Claude’s infamous EXPERIMONTAG nights, one of the strongholds of Berlin’s experimental music scene. From there he appeared at Tresor’s New Faces, Silent Green, OHM, and ELSE and established a presence in Berlin's night culture. Rami has also made a name as radio host through monthly residencies on Radio Alhara, Noods Radio, and Cashmere Radio. 

Insijam, his show on Cashmere Radio focuses on the essence of chances and encounters. In Arabic, Insijam means harmony, and in this show different sounds peacefully coexist and enhance each other. Musique Concrète naturally merges with traditional Lebanese music, spoken words, and improv jazz. In these performances, Rami forms an auditory journey that deeply resonates with feelings of displacement and the eternal quest for belonging. To deliberately bring about this sentiment, Rami is versatile in using media - tapes, recordings and vinyl collected in the fragmented places that influenced him, are puzzled and layered together. They build fluid structures that bring people together and make them belong- through the experience of listening. 

For “love is on my side” on Noods Radio, Rami showcases Cold Wave, Post Punk and Synth tunes with a focus to offer a space for reflection. 

"Layali Insijam" on Radio Alhara, is a continuation of the INSIJAM project by documenting Folk music from Lebanon by highlighting musical plays and instrumental pieces. Radio is an important vessel of self-expression for Rami, and in his words, working with Radio made him a better listener and DJ.  

Moreover, Rami’s sound projects extend to sound art by amplifying chairs and manipulating samples of traditional Lebanese instruments. The Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla intertwine with electro-acoustic elements, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, and spoken words to evoke a sense of contemplation. 

But his examination of places and spaces and their significance for one’s identity and sense of belonging doesn’t stop here. As a photographer Rami’s current focus is on taking urban pictures. He seeks to find a deeper understanding of boundaries. They either separate or unify public and/or private realms, giving birth to spaces, which Rami coins as a “diasporic field”. Within these newly human-defined spaces, the pictures serve as a mirror. They capture and reveal these for Rami so important themes of remembrance and displacement.

Rami’s pursuit of harmonizing a fusion of influences - may it be via sound or visual art - acts as a reminder to embrace the beauty of chance encounters and form deep contemplations about belonging and the fluidity of cultural identity.

Written by Theresa Baumel -

Revisiting the DJ set, at ACUD, on 29/07/2023

rami abi rafi