RUBBER TIJD revives with a newly recorded DJ set by Swamp Trax live from our first RUBBER TIJD evening at Garage Noord in Amsterdam. Swamp trax invites you to slowly sink or dance. Playing music with with a focus on their spatial transformative aspects, he assembles different narratives through sound. Expect a sonic adventure ranging from conventional and comfortable to experimental and transgressive.

Rubber TIJD at Garage Noord (Nov 2):
Marco Segato (DJ)
Dim Garden (live)
Swamp trax (DJ)

RUBBER TIJD with Swamp trax

* fka Empty Signal Transmission *
est. 2017

• Broadcasting alien sounds taped and archived on planet Earth •

Record collector, music enthusiast and Dj since the early 90s. My choice of records is Electro / Techno to Disco / Italo Disco and everything in between.

What is it?

Hosting Appetizer, a coooking and music show on @radio80000

International Oddities & Local Cult.
Record label founded in Den Haag.

bitumen.label

digital output for tar

by tvl

🗝️🌀🃏🎧

upcoming:

2026
01/02 tba
29/01 tba
01/01 onwards @ club raum

2025
20/12 love on the rocks @ club raum
19/12 moodring @ operator radio w/ g4yfx 

previously:

25/10 magenta @ dapper café
23/10 auris @ spot (ambient set)
26/09 geen actieve herinnering @ operator
08/08 oberhaum 
02/08 club raum x pamela 
02/08 pride special @ chenin chenin
01/08 pride dyke bar @ bar theo 
31/07 epiphany records @ radio hinter 
27/07 ruis @ garage noord
27/06 parish @ pip
26/06 bar theo 
14/06 pornceptual @ parallel (ambient set)
28/05 dessert x misuse creatives @ noordspace
23/05 future intel x fiber festival
09/05 future intel 
08/05 html @ garage noord
06/04 grounded day & night festival @ kabul á gogo
28/03 dansdagen @ schuur
25/03 chevere radio
28/02 unlikely animal friends w/ tember @ radio tnp
26/01 b2b dj oomph @ tilla tec 
10/01 fiber x the rest is noise @ muziekgebouw 
01/01 onwards @ club raum

2024
12/12 antikunst w/ job sifre @ echobox
04/12 copy copy w/ annebel @ operator
24/11 midland... isburning @ benelux 
09/11 polychrome radio @ echobox radio
01/11 INC_Fest_final.final.final @ ot301
19/10 pos weekender x issue x folder fm
21/09 canvas
20/09 club raum
02/08 b2b dj oomph | pamela pride @ waterkant
27/07 b2b smother | los angles @ garage noord
19/07 b2b dj shahmaran | his dark elements @ tilla tec
29/06 stereolube @ de fik garden
23/06 b2b ssspacer | b:3tter irl @ post-office
27/04 club raum
20/04 fiber festival pre-event @ bar theo 
19/04 b2b power switch | expanded publishing fest #2 - space-in / space-out ot301
19/04 i’ll be your friend @ radio tnp 
13/04 openingsweekend @ tilla tec
12/04 body @ radion (ambient set)
16/03 8xs @ ruigoord
17/02 chevere @ contact
03/02 echobox
02/02 pamela
19/01 vrije geest @ ot301
12/01 b2b power switch | expanded publishing fest #1 @ ot301

2023
25/10 physical therapy @ poing
20/10 relate radio
30/06 from sauna with love @ maxi radio
23/06 studio k
19/05 saturnalias @ de sering
13/05 b2b baby ganoush @ cafe40
07/05 issue x pam wide open @ pamela 
21/03 rararadio
10/03 b2b power switch | noises from the in-between @ ot301 
04/03 b2b annebel | sound sessions @ cafe ds
26/02 b2b annebel | swapcult @ de sering

2022
02/12 b3b baby ganoush, snufkin @ badhuis oedipus 
24/11 stuck on the platform @ ot301

Lover of esoteric trance, folk, drone, pagan choirs, lost mixtapes and weird bangers. Sometime music journalist.    
Bi-monthly show on @mutantradiotbilisi – ‘Scrying the Landscape’ w. @elinatapio 🔮🔪

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A Liveact. A ghost producer. A fan. He also 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

RUBBER TIJD with Swamp trax

RUBBER •