Biography
German house and techno producer Benedikt Frey confronts both DJs and dancers through twisting, erratic tracks designed to test the edges of reliable, conventional club material. After five prior years of production work his profile rose sharply during 2015, when five separate releases appeared; among them the EP Ghosts most clearly reveals his taste for uneven, shuffling rhythms. Output continued to gain momentum thereafter, leading to the 2018 album Artificial, which turned away from dance-floor utility toward slower, rumbling pulses.
His first single, the 2010 double A-side Escape/Indica, emerged quietly on Aldebaran and prompted a two-year hiatus for further development. Returning in 2012 with an extensive backlog, Frey placed material on three outlets: Fairytale via Mule Electronics, Running in Circles on Live at Robert Johnson, and Delinquencies on the freshly established Love Pain Sunshine Rain, also known as Lopasura. Another two-year period of withholding followed before 2015 brought a cluster of new records, including the breakthrough Ghosts on Crème Organization and the album Two Pole Resonance, issued that same year under the INIT moniker in tandem with Nadia D’Alo through Hivern Discs.
In 2016 he delivered his first ESP Institute outing, the EP The Lobbyist, then issued his initial solo long-player, 2017’s Artificial, on the same imprint. Two years of studio work yielded a set that largely avoided rapid tempos, instead offering a wider view of his jagged style with partial roots in industrial music. The accompanying remix EP appeared in 2018 and included reworkings by I:Cube, Tolouse Low Trax, and DJ Normal.
His first single, the 2010 double A-side Escape/Indica, emerged quietly on Aldebaran and prompted a two-year hiatus for further development. Returning in 2012 with an extensive backlog, Frey placed material on three outlets: Fairytale via Mule Electronics, Running in Circles on Live at Robert Johnson, and Delinquencies on the freshly established Love Pain Sunshine Rain, also known as Lopasura. Another two-year period of withholding followed before 2015 brought a cluster of new records, including the breakthrough Ghosts on Crème Organization and the album Two Pole Resonance, issued that same year under the INIT moniker in tandem with Nadia D’Alo through Hivern Discs.
In 2016 he delivered his first ESP Institute outing, the EP The Lobbyist, then issued his initial solo long-player, 2017’s Artificial, on the same imprint. Two years of studio work yielded a set that largely avoided rapid tempos, instead offering a wider view of his jagged style with partial roots in industrial music. The accompanying remix EP appeared in 2018 and included reworkings by I:Cube, Tolouse Low Trax, and DJ Normal.
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