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"Dark and intriguing are his productions filled with synthesizers, simple rhythms yet astonishing intensity." Tsugi (FR)

Mostly working during night Frieder Nagel´s groundwork lies in improvisation, escapism as well as the endless overdubbing and resampling of analogue manchinery. The self-taught musician has a secure feeling for harmonies and „combines Jazz, neo-classical, synthetics and broken beats with supreme ease“ (GROOVE Magazine). With his music Frieder Nagel is mainly on the lookout for the subconscious – in an intimate mixture of melancholy and relieve. His debut ep Distract Robots (2019 | InFiné Music) was described by XLR8R as an „otherworldly treat tak[ing] the listener down a constantly morphing auditory wormhole full of light, darkness, and cosmic bliss“.

In 2019 he composed the music for Don Juan Techno Club by japanese choreographer Fukiko Takase and for the interactive documentary Field Trip by Eva Stotz about Berlin´s abandoned airport Tempelhof. In the same year he produced the musicvideo for Daniel Brandt´s Track Flamingo published by London based label Erased Tapes. Frieder Nagel remixed french superstar Rone in 2020 and delivered dj-sets for several radio stations such as Flux FM (Berlin), Ego FM (Munich) or WDR Cosmo (Cologne). During the pandemic he focused on ambient music and soundart installations. His latest work The Arrival in collaboration with digital artist MAOTIK from France was premiered as part of a spectacular audiovisual liveshow at the Multiplica Festival 2021 in Luxembourg and was invited to the Scopitone Festival in Nantes last November.

His upcoming releases include remixes for the acclaimed deep house producers Santé & Re.you from Berlin as well as the italian violonists Laura Masotto and Francesca Guccione from Sicily. Having received a scholarship by the german collecting society GEMA Nagel is now working on a re-definition of is sound. He started to produce his debut album inside his new studio based in the middle of the bavarian woods.

pics by Moritz Hüttner, David Gallard, Uwe Niklas, Sven Becker, Theresa Vilsmaier und Peter Adamik