In their latest release, ‘Teer’ (english: tar), rand unveil two uncompromising extended tracks, ‘Teer I – fluid’ and ‘Teer II – rolled’.
Teer is due to be released on 29 August 2025 via their own imprint RAND.

Exuding a technoid and industrial ambience, the EP sees the piano-electro duo of Jan Gerdes and Dr.Nojoke venture into uncharted territories. 
‘Teer’ evokes the atmosphere of urban spaces and overlooked places: the profane and seemingly meaningless transitions of car parks, subways and construction sites, where material textures and surfaces are scanned acoustically.
You can hear machines moving and processing the tar, smoothing the ground and forming layers and bead-like thickenings as it transitions from liquid to solid, with the edges fraying in a coordinated manner.

In ‘Teer I’, the musical material takes on a more fluid and wafting form, driven by pulsating technoid machines, while a lonely, melancholic voice observes from a distance.
'Teer II' is more of a portrait of the rhythmic details of the urban scenario: the motorised, metallic pulsations of the machines at work during various rolling processes form acoustic layers between which a quite sad, hypnotic melody occasionally emerges.

Everything seems deserted and gloomy … with only a few workers behind the machines.

Both pieces were recorded live in one take.
Drawings by Jan Gerdes, photo by Dr.Nojoke


rand - Teer 2 - rolled

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20 YEARS OF CLIKNO
The Script-Club Takeover
5 -12. October 2025

Celebrating 20 years of CLIKNO in 2025!
I am a live-act & electronic music producer from Berlin, active since 2005. 
More than 150 releases of deep, hypnotic, percussive, minimal techno, microhouse and electronica under the CLIKNO guise.
CLIKNO is infused by Musique Concrete, Dada, Minimalism and life at all and is made of field recordings and found sounds.

www.linktr.ee/dr.nojoke

bandcamp
www.drnojoke.bandcamp.com
www.clikno.bandcamp.com
www.rand.bandcamp.com

spotify playlists
Club Architects
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zsE39u1QIbv0VFf9kzRCo
CLIKNO
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1flKVXgrwFRBBiTReJiWAG
Music for Peripheries
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jtKoxvUAssIgDTmpdGiZa


out now:
INPI MARI
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/inpi-mari

WRONGWRONGRIGHTRIGHT
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/wrongwrongrightright

rand - III
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/iii

ILO BABO RISI
https://stellierecords.bandcamp.com/album/dr-nojoke-ilo-babo-risi-ep-st017FUSO

FUSO
https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/album/fuso

M
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/m

REMIXES 2
https://drnojoke.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-2-2

ALMA ATA OUM
https://goldminmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alma-ata-oum

rand - PERIPHERIE REMIXES
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie-remixes

rand - PERIPHERIE
https://rand.bandcamp.com/album/peripherie

projects:
@CLIKNO label
@rand_gerdes_drnojoke "rand", duo with @jan-gerdes
@anomali solo-dronescapes
@ploberlin electronic music impro orchestra
@thepoolberlin collective
@paralelo-trioon duo with @J-Lab
@UNOIKI collective | label | network


Info:
Dr. Nojoke is a producer, performer and musician– his live sets continually bring new and unique sounds to the table, a combination of field-recordings, self-made sounds, and highly conceptual production that redefine the way we understand electronic music.
A Berlin native and leader in directional minimal techno (or “clikno” as he describes it), Dr. Nojoke is a master of rethinking ordinary musicality and procuring new uses for the everyday.

Dr.Nojoke´s live show may feature instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles and souvenirs as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality.

Since 2005 performances in clubs and on festivals in Brazil, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, UK, Italy, Russia, USA, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Slovenia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Spain, Portugal, France and throughout Germany.

More than 150 releases (EPs/albums/remixes/contributions) on labels such as CLIKNO, Archipel, Goldmin Music, Sleep is Commercial, Klangscheiben, UNOIKI, Pluie/Noir, Destroy All Monsters, Minim.all, Autist, Eintakt, Resopal ...

rand is a crossover project at the interface of classical and electronic music with references to minimal, romantic and contemporary music as well as to jazz, ambient, drone, glitch, clicks & cuts and club music. 
https://linktr.ee/rand_Jan_Gerdes_Dr.Nojoke

Jan Gerdes - piano, composition
Dr.Nojoke - electronics, composition

Both artists share a fascination for the frontiers of contemporary piano music and experimental club electronics and the acoustic and performative interweaving of individualized, poetic and lyrical piano sound with the overwhelming, orchestral and bizarre soundscapes of electronic music. 
In this field of tension between analog and digital sounds, lonely piano lines meet threatening `dronic` sound walls, repetitive piano patterns exist next to crystalline electronic impulses and create fantastic atmospheres and sound scenarios as well as spaces of manifold beauty, poetry and silence.

New Urban and Sensitive Music for Piano and Electronics for fans of: 
Nils Frahm, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bing & Ruth, Erased Tapes ...

Jan Gerdes, who as a pianist has mastered both the classical-romantic and contemporary repertoire, has collaborated with some of the leading composers of our time, such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm, and teaches at the University of Potsdam as well as at the Hanns Eisler Music Colleges in Berlin and Mannheim. 

Frank Bogdanowitz alias Dr.Nojoke has been performing successfully for many years at selected electronic music festivals such as Club Transmediale (Berlin), Boom Festival (Portugal), Piknic Electronik (Montreal), ARMA 17 (Moscow) and has made a name for himself with his own experimental style, which he also represents on his own label Cllkno. 

@Jan-Gerdes @Dr-Nojoke