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Benedikt Frey - Troubled Funk MixX #1

SETR008 V.Ö. 14.10.

A) TIFFY L’AMOUR - FOLLOW ME (FREY & MENQUI Glockenspiel) 
B) DIE GESUNDEN - Filmmusik (FREY & OTTER Dive)

Serious Trouble label presents a mind bending record that brings together forward thinking jams from the early 80’s into present time with reworks of Tiffy L’Amours’ „Follow Me“ and „Film Musik“ from Die Gesunden. Both received an editorial treatment by Benedikt Frey, Menqui & Philipp Otterbach. With kind allowance by the original composers this 12“ marks the editorial spirit of Serious Trouble and waves tribute to moist cellar jams.
The A-Side „Follow Me“ Rework by Frey & Menqui is a wild extension of the original which gently adds a weird drummy cowbell intro before it introduces the chanting eccentric original. That got enhanced with an extra electronic bass recording and relooped cut & phrases emphasing you to hit the bell just one more time.
On the flip side „Film Musik“ Frey & Otterbach dived into the artists main motive and layerd it with a lyra, sh101 and external drums in an 8 hour session. It respectfully keeps the spirit of the playful original. In comparison to that though they managed to built a seamless endless „escheresque" staircase to mad mountain. An Immortal Acid exploration.

Die Gesunden & Tiffy L'Amour Reworks (Benedikt Frey, Menqui, Philipp Otterbach)

Artist: Die Gesunden (Frey & Otter Dive)https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt https://soundcloud.com/philipp-otterbach
Track: Filmmusik
Cat: SETR008 
Label: Serious Trouble https://soundcloud.com/serioustrouble
Release date: 14 Oct 22
Format: 12“ + Digital
Preorder: https://serioustrouble.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-setr008

DT PREMIERE: Die Gesunden - Filmmusik (Frey & Otter Dive) [Serious Trouble] (2022)

@freybenedikt RIO09 // 11.18.2022 // Distr. One Eye Witness

When British Airways got privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange, somewhere in Canada the first Starbucks outside of the US opened, and the Walt Disney Company signed an agreement with the French Prime Minister to construct Disneyland Paris. In the sky above southern Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, and the Atlantic Ocean a hybrid solar eclipse materialized for 7.57 seconds, whilst Margaret Thatcher performed for 45-minutes on Soviet television. Some days later, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Diego Maradona wins his first Italian soccer championship with Napoli, and Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. In the mists of the world's first conference on artificial life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, and Prozac gets approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States. Much give way for the future, down there in 1987, the year that marks the title of Benedikt Frey’s freshest mini album, out into the world on R.i.O., the label he runs with some pals in the North of Berlin. It’s a dubby melancholic conqueror, wistfully, repetitive, drilling, absorbing, spooking. It makes you dream. Not particular of the year 1987. But it’s all there: The Red Square, the untouched land of the Val d'Europe, Diego on fuego. Six dark-ish tracks in trance, melancholic dub, downbeat heaven, journey music depths, all full of light and yet so dark. Futuristic dramas linked to a speculative past. In our dreams all might look different. The eclipse may last 27-minutes. You meet Neuromancer cyberpunks and blade running Ghost dogs, all taught to hack by Phrack. Cristal clear melodies, sampled voices, and veiled basslines, analogue scopes, and digital ropes, longing for a past that storm into the future. A time where deep listening widens the acoustics into infinity, while neon glows charm the light smog. Benedikt Frey been down there. Or maybe not. His latest music tells stories from the bygone, vested with the forthcoming. Come in and look out. There is nothing to see, yet so much to hear. ML

A1) Phrack 5:55
A2) Trencher 6:15
A3) ORI 3:38
B1) Attitude 5:45
B2) Dummy 5:43
B3) Steam 5:30

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

1987

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RIO09 Benedikt Frey - 1987

Catalog#: MMS505
Format: Vinyl – 10inch EP
Country: FRANCE
Released: 25 dec 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial, Dub, Electro

Our dubby ‘detective’ Axel Larsen is back for another 10 inch on the « Special » series (MMS), establishing the « Criminal Music » genre for good !
You will find in this EP a concentrate of foggy atmospheres, heavy basslines, tension rhythms and dark melodies that will fit perfectly in your next Cluedo night. It can also be used during a GTA session, but be sure that its maximum effect will be in a dark room full of crazy motherf****rz ☺
Limited to 300 copies, don’t snooze !!
Mastering : Rude 66, Artwork : Axel Larsen, distribution : Rubadub/Syncrophone
TRACKLIST :
A1. Hygiène du squelette 4:46
A2. Dans la Peau d’un Simplist 4:47
A3. Chevaline Dub 3 :26
B1. Automatique Détéctive 4:53
B2. L’été Noir 4 :55
B3. Le Pyromane du Château Rouge 4:31

MMS505 - Axel Larsen "L'été Noir" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

at R.i.O. 1987 Release Party, Arkaoda Berlin 11.19.22

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https://soundcloud.com/phasegroup
🛒 https://phasegroup.bandcamp.com/album/a-given-moment
🔊 https://youtu.be/bfV7nECrXEI

Phase Group continue their exploration of the fringes of contemporary electronic music with a release that brings together two separate projects born from analogue hardware improvisations.

‘A Given Moment’ presents the dub-laden, mind-bending and noise-driven music of Brussels-based artist and Vastechoses label head Lostsoundbytes, and the lo-fi, early morning lysergic experiments of Lowspace, an unearthed, forgotten collaborative project by French DJ and musician Low Bat and Dresden-based producer Heninspace.

This is music that takes you deeper into the vortex, made for dark and smoke-enveloped clubs and cosmic day-break afterparty moments. On the A-side, Lostsoundbytes continues his prolific output of masterfully crafted bass-heavy and dub-wise analogue machine jams, while the B-side presents two lost psychotropic experimental recordings by Lowspace made in 2018 upon a visit by Low Bat to Heninspace’s Dresden studio.

Tracklist: 

A1. Lostsoundbytes - In 1000 Years
A2. Lostsoundbytes - Fou De Croire
A3. Lostsoundbytes - Brain's Rewind 
B1. Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee
B2. Lowspace - Dance For The Underwear Hour

PREMIERE: Lowspace - Sonntag Gibt Milchkaffee [Phase Group]

Disciple of the god Apollo, Terpsichore was the Muse of the dance, and it was known to be the most enigmatic of the nine Greek muses. 
She was the mother of the sirens, and she would lure sailors to shipwreck on their island with their music and hypnotic, beautiful singing. 

Terpsichore has been invoked as a metaphor for rhythm and ordered movement in the universe. 
The planets orbit the sun and the sun, with other stars, orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The planets go through the Milankovitch cycles in which their orbits around the sun adjust in very regular, periodic, or rhythmic, ways.

Terpsichore’s influence goes beyond just the humane, as It can also be seen in the observable universe.
She is now the Muse not just of human dance but also the cosmic dance in which the whole universe participates.

Music by Anna VS June, Steve Pepe, Francesca Colombo, Bear Bones, Lay Low, Pannotia, Nixxon, Tassilo Vanhoefen, Yuto Takei, Amerza, Orestt, The Dude Of Stratosphear, Anatolian Weapons, Théo Muller, Konsistent, Vidock & Ghassen Chiba
Design by Vanja Rakic
Label run by Pako Vega
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio in Glasgow

Release date 15.03.2023
Availabe on a limited edition cassette(60 copies)& digital in selected stores and Bandcamp
Pre-order: https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/album/terpsichore-dance

Stay curious 🌀

VA - Sounds Of Ogigia - Terpsichore Dance (SOO03) [Snippets]

Serenades returns with the continuation of a series of split-format releases that talk about living, working, creating and interacting with completely different people from different parts of the world.

Odopt and Dolphins have created enchanting and enigmatic pieces for different experiences - whether you're left alone with your deep thoughts or on the contrary trying not to think about anything on a full dance floor. That's the magic of music, in its monologue or dialogue with you, it can answer many of your questions.

Things were different when we started preparing this release and we couldn't imagine what the year 2022 would throw us into, but we still try to remain committed to love, peace and mutual understanding.
No war!

Dolphins: https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt, https://soundcloud.com/menqui, https://soundcloud.com/nadia-d-al.
https://soundcloud.com/odopt: https://soundcloud.com/grishanelyubin, https://soundcloud.com/me-is.

Artwork by Alina Tiulina.
Design by Nikita Lanndau.
Mastered by Sergey Luginin.

Distribution by https://soundcloud.com/bordellodistribution
distribution@bordelloaparigi.com

Split

Snippets : Dolphins & Odopt - Split [SRNDS003]

Catalog#: MMLPXX505
Format: Vinyl – LP
Country: FRANCE
Released: 23 March 2023

Hambourg’s electro duo Fallbeil composed by Wosto and Kluentah, is still pretty unknown despite they’ve been  releasing a bunch of EP and a couple of LP on label like Mannequin, Killekill sub-label Boidae or New York Haunted and more recently on their own label Teerpappe to name a few. Wosto, long time Macadam Mambo’s collaborater (Danzas Electricas vol. 2 & 3), sent us demos of what sounds very like « what Drexciya would realease on Bunker Records », a compilation of irresistible dark atmospheres slow electro tunes with very raw textures, complemented by few little skits to generate a brilliant album around the story of the Mockturtle. It’s rought as it should be ! And ! Little TIP for gabber’s heads dj, some tracks can be played in 45rpm check « No Go Area » and « Rackelhahn » it makes it worth ;)	      

Artwork : Sacha Mambo / Mastering : Rude 66 / Distribution : Rubadub – 500 copies 

TRACKLIST :
A1. Cocorico (Intro)0 :52
A2. Inside Job 5 :51
A3. Megaknast 5 :24
A4. Running Drunk (Interlude)0 :38
A5. Sattla 6 :14
A6. 631980 (Interlude) 0 :33
B1. No Go Area 4 :10
B2. Turtle Sea (Interlude)	 0 :44
B3. The Mockturtle 3 :20
B4. Ganja (Interlude)	 0 :35
B5. Rackelhahn 9 :07

MMLPXX505 - Fallbeil "The Mockturtle" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

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https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute
🛒 https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane
🔊 https://youtu.be/nVzU6dgMxek

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey - Crank [ESP Institute]

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Great for: video games, live video game broadcasts, virtual reality, VR, immersive sports videos, product launches, fitness videos, dynamic YouTube short films, inspirational motivational content, energetic commercials, corporate videos.

Instruments: Synth, drums, bass, pad, pluck, piano, guitar, fx, percussions.

Cosmo Flower

Two years on since his BR debut in Berlin, our attention is drawn once again to Benedikt Frey and his Lopasura (Love, Pain, Sunshine & Rain) imprint. Since its 2012 formation, Lopasura has housed Benedikt's own releases. Following on from the Connect Four compilation by Drvg Cvltvre, Mark Forshaw, The Acid Mercenaries and Benedikt himself, he now returns with the label's fourth release. Out of the Fog showcases a trio of analogue-laden techno mastery. The title track opens proceedings fittingly. Acid low-tessitura chords hiss continuously underneath while siren synths whir in and out in their grandeur, peaking to symphonic effect before fading back into the dark. A sense of drama that encompasses Love, Pain, Sunshine & Rain comprehensively.

Catch Out of the Fog creeping out of the shadows on 21st April via Lopasura.

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Benedikt Frey "Out of the Fog" - Boiler Room Debuts

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/

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Premiere: Benedikt Frey - Private Crimes

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17.11. The Carpet Shop, London
11.11. Epicentar, Skopje
08.09. Arkaoda, Berlin
28.08. Dolphins @ Warning, Berlin
23.08. Dolphins @ Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt 
13.08. DT Camp, Lithuania
14.07. K&H Festival, Bad Wildbad
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21.04. Control Club, Bukarest
10.03. Sameheads, Berlin
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01.13. OHM, Berlin

played at venues like: Rex Club, Fabric, Tresor, Berghain, Panorama Bar, Boiler Room Stadtbad Robert Johnson, Circuli de Bellas Artes, De Marktkantine, Pacha Ibiza, Signal, Peacock Festival, Nuits Sonores Festival, Opium, About Blank, Nitsa, Elysia

R.i.O. is a record label from 13359 Berlin 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.

Upcoming Labelnights:

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