01)	Autumn -						Night In June
02)	Turquoise Days -				Grey Skies
03)	Oppenheimer Analysis -			Subterranean Desire
04)	Tres -						Operator
05)	Trem -						My Robotic Friend
06)	Bill Bruce -					It's Cold Outside
07)	The Actor -					Wählerisch!
08)	Eleven Pond -					Watching Trees
09)	Twilight Ritual -					They Are We
10)	Psyche -						Eternal
11)	Soft Cell -						The Girl With The Painted Leather Face
12)	Vision Factory -					Tremendous Mates
13)	SS-Say -						Care
14)	The Electronic Circus -			Direct Lines
15)	Mixed Feelings -				Stand Up High
16)	The Short Wave Mystery -			Laugh Tomorrow
17)	Fiction Technology -				In The City
18)	Jeff & Jane Hudson -				Help Me
19)	Mark Lane -					Who's Really Listening
20)	Martin Dupont -					Inside Out
21)	Near Paris -					Visions
22)	Fall Of Saigon -					Blue Eyes
23)	Xex -							Holland Tunnel
24)	Deux -						Decadence
25)	Das Ding -						Reassurance Ritual
26)	Oppenheimer Analysis -			The Devil's Dancers
27)	Linear Movement -				I Like Reality
28)	Metropolis -					See No Reason2
29)	Techniques Berlin -				Love Via Computer
30)	Circuit 7 -						Video Boys
31)	Informatics -					What a world
32)	Van Kaye & Ignit -				Whirlwind
33)	Moral -						The aerage life
34)	Nine Circles  -					Twinkling Stars
35)	Pursuit Of Colour -				Can't Let You Go
36)	The Neon Judgement -			T.V. Treated
37)	Absolute Body Control -			Figures
38)	The Toy Shop -					Live Wires Kill
39)	Drinking Electricity -				Twilight Zone (uk, 1980)
40)	Final Academy -				The Collector
41)	A Blaze Colour -				Dark Trees Beyond
42)	Stratis -						I Fotia
43)	Esplendor Geométrico -			Moscú Está Helado
44)	Transparent Illusion  -			The Age Of Ridicule
45)	Ministry -						She's Got A Cause (Demo)
34)	The Passage -					Shattered Glass
35)	Rational Youth -					Saturdays In Silesia
36)	Anti-Matter -					Industrial City
37)	Stephan Eicher -				Noise boys song
38)	Comix -						Touche Pas Mon Sexe
39)	Neural Circus -					Neural Circus
40)	Basking Sharks -				New Industry
41)	Nightmoves -					Transdance
42)	Camera Obscura -				Race In Athens
43)	Sudeten Creche -				Glorious Treason
44)	The Body Electric -				Dash 1721
45)	Neon -						Indulgeance With Vengeance
46)	Art Fact -						Rain In The South
47)	The Vyllies -					Whispers In The Shadow

Minimal & Synth 1 / The 80´s

synthpop / electro / minimal / coldwave / darkwave / industrial / post-punk / punk

Rami Abi Rafi’s work captures the essence of his migratory experiences. Born in the UK and of Lebanese heritage, he nowadays bridges between two burdened and deeply absorbing cities: Berlin and Beirut. The journey from London to Beirut, and current presence in Berlin, breathes the life into his work and inspired him to harmonize these influences in the different facets of his oeuvre.

As a DJ, Sound Artist, and Photographer, Rami's practice reflects a life lived at the crossroads of cultures and places. Subtly confronting and surprising, his works aim to empower imagination as they retell stories through music. They are an invitation to explore themes of memory, time, migration and forced existential exile. 

His first live performance was in Madame Claude’s infamous EXPERIMONTAG nights, one of the strongholds of Berlin’s experimental music scene. From there he appeared at Tresor’s New Faces, Silent Green, OHM, and ELSE and established a presence in Berlin's night culture. Rami has also made a name as radio host through monthly residencies on Radio Alhara, Noods Radio, and Cashmere Radio. 

Insijam, his show on Cashmere Radio focuses on the essence of chances and encounters. In Arabic, Insijam means harmony, and in this show different sounds peacefully coexist and enhance each other. Musique Concrète naturally merges with traditional Lebanese music, spoken words, and improv jazz. In these performances, Rami forms an auditory journey that deeply resonates with feelings of displacement and the eternal quest for belonging. To deliberately bring about this sentiment, Rami is versatile in using media - tapes, recordings and vinyl collected in the fragmented places that influenced him, are puzzled and layered together. They build fluid structures that bring people together and make them belong- through the experience of listening. 

For “love is on my side” on Noods Radio, Rami showcases Cold Wave, Post Punk and Synth tunes with a focus to offer a space for reflection. 

"Layali Insijam" on Radio Alhara, is a continuation of the INSIJAM project by documenting Folk music from Lebanon by highlighting musical plays and instrumental pieces. Radio is an important vessel of self-expression for Rami, and in his words, working with Radio made him a better listener and DJ.  

Moreover, Rami’s sound projects extend to sound art by amplifying chairs and manipulating samples of traditional Lebanese instruments. The Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla intertwine with electro-acoustic elements, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, and spoken words to evoke a sense of contemplation. 

But his examination of places and spaces and their significance for one’s identity and sense of belonging doesn’t stop here. As a photographer Rami’s current focus is on taking urban pictures. He seeks to find a deeper understanding of boundaries. They either separate or unify public and/or private realms, giving birth to spaces, which Rami coins as a “diasporic field”. Within these newly human-defined spaces, the pictures serve as a mirror. They capture and reveal these for Rami so important themes of remembrance and displacement.

Rami’s pursuit of harmonizing a fusion of influences - may it be via sound or visual art - acts as a reminder to embrace the beauty of chance encounters and form deep contemplations about belonging and the fluidity of cultural identity.

Written by Theresa Baumel -

Minimal & Synth 1 / The 80´s

Grufti Frank