Benedikt Frey (Serious Trouble / R-i-O //Berlin)
@freybenedikt

Illustration:
@steviewhisper

Benedikt Frey says Yes.

Interview & Tracklisting: http://bit.ly/bndktfr

Am Deck 16 - Benedikt Frey

The Year of The Radical Romantics

Mustn't Hurry (Radical Romantics Session)

British-German musician and former political journalist Anika delivers a guest mix ahead of her new album Abyss, out soon on Sacred Bones. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/anika-8th-july-2025

Anika 080725

shimmering disco-infused underground house + techno grooves built for warming up dancefloors - celebrating the joy, defiance + soul of the 'Paris Is Burning' documentary movie.

STRATA - PARIS IS BURNING

EAT LIQUID is a Live LP by Annika Henderson, aka ANIKA, composed for and performed at the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin in Feb 2023.

Can music be used to elevate the consciousness into psychedelic experiences?

We all seek escape in differing moments, through drugs, alcohol, sex and film but can music offer an alternative? Anika offers a journey into another realm, a safe place, a-top a dreamy soundscape of whining synths, siren calls, long-tailed guitar, all over the grid, to re-find the center of ourselves, a stay-cation to the inner realm, to unpick the stresses of modern day life – a complete experiment with no sinister motives. Spoken word includes cut-ups from Timothy Leary’s 'The Psychedelic Experience' 'First Bardo Instructions' during 'Climb On Board'.

STARGAZING WITH ANIKA
A poem written by Hanne Lippard in the context of the Planetarium.

Gazing at the stars
Which are not real stars
But a theater imitating the sky
in a man-made dome-shaped space
I think of asterisks
Those small stars
That are placed at the end of a word
To indicate that this is not the end
Not the end of the word
Not the end of the world
Not the end of a man-made doomed space Not the end of the sky
But rather a continuation
Of its endlessnessnessnessnessnessness 
credits
released June 9, 2023

Music, Concept and Production by Annika Henderson, bass played by Sally Whitton on Climb On-Board.

Special Thanks to Carmen Burguess, Pilocka Krach, Aude Langlois and Hanne Lippard.

Mix und Mastering: James Trevascus
Planetarium Technician: Susanne Wolff
Recording Engineer: Jonas Kimpel

Image: Florian Meyer (Still from Planetarium Live-Visuals)
Artwork: Aled Simons

Publisher: Edition Reality Baitz/Random Noize Musick
Label: Liquid Milk

Sponsored by Musikfonds e. V.

A production of the foundation »Planetarium Berlin«, first performed at »Live Radiant« Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin. 

Anika - Planetarium_SIDE_A

EAT LIQUID is a Live LP by Annika Henderson, aka ANIKA, composed for and performed at the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin in Feb 2023.

Can music be used to elevate the consciousness into psychedelic experiences?

We all seek escape in differing moments, through drugs, alcohol, sex and film but can music offer an alternative? Anika offers a journey into another realm, a safe place, a-top a dreamy soundscape of whining synths, siren calls, long-tailed guitar, all over the grid, to re-find the center of ourselves, a stay-cation to the inner realm, to unpick the stresses of modern day life – a complete experiment with no sinister motives. Spoken word includes cut-ups from Timothy Leary’s 'The Psychedelic Experience' 'First Bardo Instructions' during...  more
credits
released June 9, 2023

Music, Concept and Production by Annika Henderson, bass played by Sally Whitton on Climb On-Board.

Special Thanks to Carmen Burguess, Pilocka Krach, Aude Langlois and Hanne Lippard.

Mix und Mastering: James Trevascus
Planetarium Technician: Susanne Wolff
Recording Engineer: Jonas Kimpel

Image: Florian Meyer (Still from Planetarium Live-Visuals)
Artwork: Aled Simons

Publisher: Edition Reality Baitz/Random Noize Musick
Label: Liquid Milk

Sponsored by Musikfonds e. V.

A production of the foundation »Planetarium Berlin«, first performed at »Live Radiant« Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin.

license: all rights reserved 

Anika - Planetarium_SIDE_B

(Photo credit - Fabian Kretz)

For 2018’s next expedition, veteran cosmonaut Benedikt Frey takes control of space command after making 2017 one of his several galactic conquests, putting his proverbial black, red & yellow flag in a stunning vinyl release on Bahnsteig 23, an equally stunning album on ESP, a plethora of killer remixes and continuing his record label ‘Love Pain Sunshine & Rain’. Need we say more?

His broad electronic taste is vast, and his sound can be a drift across the universe, a jump to hyperspace, industrial binary clunking or an extraterrestrial attack on the senses. Todays sample is the latter. Packed with ample 303, nothing could be better suited to help you laugh in the face of ‘dry January’, show it the Vs and prime you for the weekend.

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Benedikt Frey | 021

retrospective mix showcasing 90s jungle and drum + bass originals - recorded to audio cassette for added vintage warmth.

TAPEHEADS #02

UK based selector, digging deep across tempos; seamless transitions, mindfully crafted to move bodies + shape atmospheres.


photography - https://www.instagram.com/thirdeyephotography.uk/