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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)

@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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Moving firmly into its fourth decade, Tresor Records launches a new 12″ series, with a new generic sleeve design, intentionally available at affordable prices as an antidote to high vinyl costs.

In April 2023, Tresor Records will unveil a new EP from DALO entitled “GUM”. DALO, aka Nadia D’Alo, is one of the founders of the R.i.O label and half of the duo INIT. After several years of performing as INIT with Benedikt Frey, she had her solo live debut in Berlin in 2022. This record follows releases on labels such as ESP Institute and Warning. “GUM” showcases DALO’s expert mastery of rising tension through analogue sound sources, as it swings in and remains with minimal changes and accentuation.

DALO
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nadia-d-al
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daloworks/

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tresorberlin/

PREMIERE: DALO - Backlash (Tresor)

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Plant43 - Reflection | Reaction Part One
Plant43 Recordings 010
Release date: 19th June 2023

Order at: https://plant43.bandcamp.com/merch

Reflection | Reaction is a trilogy of EP’s written by Plant43 over the course of winter 2022/23, the first in the series marking the 10th release and third anniversary for the artist’s Plant43 Recordings label. Over the course of twelve tracks and over an hour of new music Emile Facey takes the listener on an emotional journey through the frosty depths of winter and into the warm sunlight of spring. All three parts of the trilogy will be on different coloured limited edition vinyl (250).

All orders include PDF A4 high resolution poster artwork by Emile Facey.

Formats:
Orange vinyl(limited to 250 copies) and digital.

Distribution by Juno. Manufactured in the UK.
Written and produced by Emile Facey.
Design and illustration by Emile Facey.

Track listing:

A1 Fierce Machines (6:24)
A2 Silent Core (6:11)
B1 Dark Veneer (5:56)
B2 Life In The Pod (5:49)

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Plant43 - Reflection Reaction - Part One - Preview Clips

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🛒 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]

TL Premiere #1320 (2023.08.02) : Benedikt Frey - Move Me (ft Nadia D'Alò) [ESP Institute]

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For this 185th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by German DJ/Producer Benedikt Frey featuring Nadia D'Alò titled ‘Move Me’ from his double LP "Fastlane" on US label : ESP Institute.

▶︎ "Benedikt Frey - Fastlane" is available on 2xVinyl LP + Digital on Bandcamp : https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane

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Release Info :

Benedikt Frey - Fastlane [ESP Institute // ESP103]

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. 

Tracklist :
01. Habits
02. Fast Lane
03. Crank
04. Move Me (ft Nadia D'Alò)
05. Solver
06. Element
07. Gasoline
08. Industry
09. Trick Shot
10. Silverblade (ft O-Wells)
11. Lost (Again)
12. 1337

released July 28, 2023

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Follow Benedikt Frey :
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Facebook : www.facebook.com/freybenedikt
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SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/freybenedikt

Follow DALO aka Nadia D'Alò :
Linktree : https://linktr.ee/DALONADIA
SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/nadia-d-al

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Fastlane

Move Me (ft Nadia D'Alò)

TL PREMIERE : Benedikt Frey - Move Me (ft Nadia D'Alò) [ESP Institute]

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Taken from the forthcoming album 'Luminous Machines' release date 5th February 2024. Pre-order vinyl and digital at:
https://plant43.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-machines

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WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY EMILE FACEY
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION BY EMILE FACEY
© PLANT43 RECORDINGS 2024
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Luminous Machines

PREMIERE: Solar Luminosity [Plant43 Recordings] - release date 5th Feb 2024

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Acid Rain (Original Mix)

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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05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
07.06. KuH Festival, Bad Wildbad
31.05. TBA, Düsseldorf
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
09.02. LAF, Pforzhyme
26.01. Sameheads, Berlin

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29.12. Karmakoma, Belgrade
16.12. Sables Mouvants, Madrid
18.11. The Love Inn, Bristol
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
03.06. Renate, Berlin
14.05. Doka, Amsterdam
01.05. X, Berlin
21.04. Control Club, Bukarest
10.03. Sameheads, Berlin
02.18. Barcelona, Colectivo Secreto
02.17. Latvian Art Academy Carnival, Riga
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

TL PREMIERE : Benedikt Frey - Move Me (ft Nadia D'Alò) [ESP Institute]

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