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

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Benedikt Frey says Yes.

Benedikt Frey DJ set @ DT CAMP 2023

Benedikt Frey (@freybenedikt) has been on a journey of musical adventure and exploration over the last 15 years. He has made everything from deepest house to bottomless dub, UK jungle to irresistible edits of Notorious BIG. Those early forays came on labels like Nous'klaer Audio and Hivern Discs but in the years since the German has looked more to industrial and post-punk for inspiration. His Fastlane album on ESP Institute this summer blended those vibes with his own take on techno and resulted in his most accomplished and singular work yet. 

Now, the Lopasura label head steps up with an extra special two-hour mix that peers into the farthest corners of his sound. It is the sort of all-consuming trip that plays out like a mind movie as it works through serval different chapters - some heady and deep, some direct and unsettling, always with great control. Whether laying down electro, wave, techno or serious bass weight, Benedikt Frey is always taking you somewhere new.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 446 - Benedikt Frey

Prochaine édition la Culottée le samedi 16 novembre à Petit Bain avec JOE DELON, BENEDIKT FREY, CEYDA YAGIZ & TRUSSPE

Rinse France Podcast

BENEDIKT FREY : LA CULOTTÉE - 15 Novembre 2024

Benedikt Frey for Honey Trap 4.4.2025 @ Sameheads

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RIOCAST15 Sacha Mambo - The Escape To Nowhere Mix

Enjoy listening to the live recording of Thomas Lea Clarke's DJ set at 90mil. An eclectic mix that fuses the downtempo spheres of post punk, tribal and acid.
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SAVE THE DATE -> 08.08 - 10.08 -> Listen Listen Sommerfest (100 kilometers northwest of Berlin)

Listen Listen at 90mil - Thomas Lea Clarke

Next up at Edwin Music channel is Berlin-based producer and DJ @benediktfrey and his close friend @menqui with whom he co-runs the label R.i.O.

For EDWIN MUSIC CHANNEL, he joined forces with his friend Menqui, who is overseeing the administration for the R.i.O. label, is part of the Berlin-based Muting The Noise Record Store and Distribution crew, runs a radio show for Cashmere Radio and plays regular in all those small, but delicate Berlin bars and little dancefloor venues. Together they prepared an epic mix, created live and direct in Menqui’s living room, featuring all sorts of music from pop, Trip-Hop, and Hip-hop to free-tripping electronic grooves. Check the groove and read below what Benedikt Frey and Menqui told us about their history, work, label, and future plans.

Follow the link for the full interview: https://edwineuro.pe/mix137

N° 137 – R.i.O – Benedikt Frey / Menqui

Another expedition into the fourth world, or is this one the fifth… A place where the spirits of the past come together with those of the future, where haunted ambient and ghostly dubbed out rhythms make you trance out to the world unknown, where esoteric brings you down to earth… Can you still follow? Maybe just listen and get lost.

The Other Side 92, Lyl Radio 13/05/2025

Live from Neukölln: Sons of Traders‘ Fame Mike Tansella JR. is bringing THE funk!

Mike Tansella Jr. [8.7.25]

Mantra ๒ is presented by fellow space cat @freybenedikt. He describes this mix as one “For the Birds and the Trees” and we couldn’t agree more.

Listen and dream. here, music is the medicine.

Mantra ๒ Benedikt Frey

Cada batida destila sombras, frequências que convocam símbolos esquecidos.
Não é música para ouvir, é para sentir nos ossos.

Um mergulho nos abismos da consciência, onde a intuição é o único mapa.
Ritmos colidem como elementos em combustão, abrindo portais entre o real e o oculto.

Deixe-se corroer.
Transmute.

Master by Adrian
Artwork by Naturaiz Records

ORCORO - Elementais

The Frission Effect

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(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.

@freybenedikt

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

PRETENTIOUS CLUB NIGHT / LABEL 
DEGENTRIFYING THE DANCEFLOOR SINCE 2013.

CONTACT yesbelgrade@gmail.com
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DISTIRBUTION https://distribution.triplevision.nl/


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