Beatdenker's Postcontemporary Beats fusing the spirit and knowledge of beat music, jazz, carnatic music, new music, IDM and electronica into a futuristic experience. He plays live and improvises every time anew. The hyperactive beat fire heats up the audience so much that the sonic waves coaxes their "future dance steps" out of them. The end result is a wicked live set full of action and interaction. Beatdenker's self developed and unprecedented rhythmic language, forward-thinking sound design and hyper creative composing and improvising are bringing a fresh, encouraging, bouncy, dancy, concrete, fat, real, spirited, bubbly sound and feel from his future to our present.
By Kamil Bobin
Discovered via Musosoup
Hello Beatdenker. What strengths do you have that you believe make you a great musician?
Imagination, creativity, stamina, narrative, fun, spezialisation in rhythm and I can work and have fun with people and collegues, yippie.
Who inspired you to make music?
At first, my parents had fortunately sent me to music and guitar lessons. however, a few acquaintances and friends who had their guitar with them at the campfire were more inspiring. there i really felt for the first time how music can have an effect on a group or a society, it had something ritualistic, deeper. so on the one hand very good friends in the youth, common bands, all my great teachers, my jazz and composition studies, the whole environment there, youtube videos, endless music listening, on the other hand completely different areas of life, so philosophy, macroeconomics, social theories, (music) events, parties, people, friends, life, stuff.
Your latest release is 'Ethic Endless Fun'. Can you share with us the background of its creation and did any unusual things happen during its creation?
I always record or compose albums in hyper creative phases. this album took me a week without much sleep, haha. The album is multihybrid, multifaceted and multilayered in the sense that i act between a performing musician and improviser and an exploratory composer, that it sounds like electronic music but was recorded very analog with guitar and finger drumming, that it has loops and not loops that are not immediately recognizable, that there are highly complexistic rhythmic layers without programming and that it comes with music videos which transport the meaning of ethic endless fun. Haha for the music video of „No, you will get an ice-cream today“ my friend an flim maker Blas Lamazares and me where driving a complete day through the country to find flower fields, but we didn’t see any flower, but then we found that funny little trees.
Can you shortly describe each of the tracks that are on the album?
I think if people watch the music videos, they will find out, haha. I deliver messages, but it is also nice, if people just listen to music and create their own universes in their minds and move their bodies to it.
How do you stay up-to-date with the latest musical trends?
Luckily I have a quite big environment of musicians. So, I get hints again and again. But as a researching musician I really work hard to produce something new myself. This is why I call my music Postcontemporary Beats, haha.
What makes you different from others?
Puh, I think I already mentioned some specifications of mine and why I am so unique (haha) above. Sure Beatdenker is a solo project, but I still believe that we are all a composition of multiple and diverse collectives and that true individualism just blooms embedded in diverse communities.
What’s an average day like for you?
Mostly getting up, having breakfast, nerding on guitar, rhythms, producing, beat making, trying to make breaks and not to forget food and in best case meeting friends or doing something cultural at one point. :)
Please discuss how you interact with and respond to fans.
Still searing for more fans, so follow me on all these platforms we all kind of like, haha. I use social media, did kind of workshops in my recursive rhythm get-together in Berlin, and always try to interact as much as I can within my improvised beat fireworks live sets. Ideally, the visitors will show me their Future Dance Steps, haha yeah.
What advice would you have for someone wanting to follow in your footsteps?
Haha, I don’t know if someone wants to do so, but this is what I do, try, believe in: pluralism, doing things together, experiments, multicollectivity, endless fun, multiperspectivity, recovering again and again, celebrating and appreciating life, connecting collectives, failing and learing process, exchange, consistency, sustainability, peace, thinking from the future, correlation, connectivity, respect and random stuff.
What are your plans for the future?
I will release more music, play more often live after I found my new fun set up. And I wanna push further a huge real-utopian project I initiated together with ten friends: Future Bloom, a festival, music, community, culture, democracy booster. We want to interconnect 52 different (music, art) communities all over Germany. All of them shall organize a one week long interdisciplinary festival within a framework of anti-racism, queer feminism and common welfare. We want to invite each other, to include everyone no matter where someone comes from, how much money one has or how someone does identify, to make a new kind of events from artists and people for artists and people, means more freedom and more independency. These meta event of 365 events a yeah shall become a federal supported institution of the 21th century.