blah blah blah … you’ll never forget how to dance

+ @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

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

Space Ritual //// Narr Radio

Space Ritual Label
https://soundcloud.com/space-ritual-music

Narr Radio 
https://soundcloud.com/narr-radio

2025

Feb 7th Outlaws Yacht Club Leeds

Feb 9th Club Cosmos @ Freedom Mills Leeds

March 1st Haunted Dancehall Manchester 

March 21st Golden Lion Todmorden 

April 13th Golden Lion Todmorden 

May 4th Club Cosmos @ Freedom Mills Leeds 

June 22nd Golden Lion Todmorden

June 28th Narr x Mutant Radio Leeds 

July 4th Overdraught Levenshulme

September 19th Off Symmetry Peer Hat Manchester 

September 20th Aquelarre Edinburgh

September 21st Exit Glasgow 

Sunday October 12th Golden Lion Todmorden

Sunday December 14th Golden Lion Todmorden

~ EU/UK Bookings ~
tal@klsbookings.com 

~ AUS  ~
james@watartists.com 

~ Elsewhere ~
moonshoerecords@gmail.com    

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Unconditional Love

One half of Expressions Dance Café @expressions_dance_cafe Playing left field house and oddities from around the globe.

Expressions Radio show on Subcity Radio one sunday a month. 

Based in Glasgow, Scotland

Upcoming gigs:

11/01/26 - Subcity Radio w/ Ángel Negrin

14/02/26 - Expressions (Dance Café), The Douglas Arms, Dumfries

22/02/26 - Subcity Radio w/ Shedcat

S Duality is following