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2025
Albums - Eps

Sinularia
Subwater beats II

upcoming release may 23 on Boomslang Records

Finished album - release at one point haha

Beatdenker feat.
Kid be Kid
MAKE ME DANCE

BEATDENKER
Future Dance Steps

Finished album - release at one point haha

Finished EP - release at one point haha

Beatdenker
Enigmatic Dance music

2025
Collabs

SvM3 feat. Beatdenker

new album

Guitar, samples, MiX, master, producing - coming soon -

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2024
Albums - Eps

SATT
Oh Yeah!!!

SATT - Oh yeah!!! - Album Cover

A guitar, 1000 samples, an unpredictable bass and Vivid drums. 100 percent action improv guaranteed. Are you satt? Oh yeah!!!

2024
Collabs

INA WEST
Gold and orange

Digital Master

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2023
Albums - Eps

Beatdenker
I Don'T Remember what I Forgot

I Don't Remember What I Forgot - Beatdenker Album Cover

"I Don't Remember What I Forgot" is just another reminder of how tiny and insignificant we humans are in terms of space and time. At the same time it should be clear that we are able to change things, circumstances, etc. and that we have to bear the responsibility for it. No nihilsm, no determinism, no constructivism, no bullshit. We cannot escape reality. It is here and perceptible in this moment. There is no other possibility than to give meaning to oneself and one's life through one's own self-image ability. So let's better make cool stuff!

"Stuff Is happening" asks what happens when you let go and spend a day doing something as spontaneously and directly as possible. In what forms can creativity, improvisation and freedom exist? What is the most direct form of expression? How long is a day in terms of perception, creative power and well-being? What should, can, may happen in it? How much information can i absorb, how much can i trigger? If you take these questions further, you usually come to the questions of who am I, what is the meaning of life and what is consciousness? None of these questions can and will be answered by this music, nevertheless it wants to give an impulse to ask them again and again and to pursue them.

Beatdenker
Stuff is Happening

Stuff Is Happening - Beatdenker Album Cover

ZuR Schönen Aussicht
Turbo Charged up

Zur Schönen Aussicht - Turbo Charged Up - Album Cover

With Turbo Charged Up, the trio Zur Schönen Aussicht brings experimental music to the centre of society. For their fifth album, they have gathered nine international, diamond, partly legendary rappers who beam their beats into a new, futuristic dimension: German rapper KÄPTN PENG, US rap legend of the L.A. Freestyle Fellowship crew MYKA 9, bioluminescent alien rapper IXA PSYBORG from Philadelphia/Berlin, L.A. Alpha Pup artist and producer SUBTITLE, Berlin's boundary-pushing multi-instrumentalist and vocal artist KID BE KID, Le Peuple De L'Herbe rapper ODDATEEE from New York/Lyon, genre-transcending storyteller SERA KALO from Connecticut/Berlin, Birmingham's virtuoso jazz saxophonist and rapper SOWETO KINCH, and Berlin's hyperenergetic singer and rapper ZOOEY AGRO. Individually and always in a masterful way, the rappers find their way to flow over the unconventional beats and have different messages to proclaim: about empowerment of people of colour, about police violence, about consumerism, about the inactivity of local politicians in the climate crisis, about overtaking in the fast lane, about miracles or about rap life. Sometimes poetic, sometimes with healthy anger, sometimes philosophical, sometimes straight forward in your face. The three jazz musicians, beats and rap lovers Jo Wespel aka Beatdenker (guitar, composition, producing, mixing, mastering), Paul Berberich (saxophone) and Flo Lauer (drums) went one step further after the production and brought Myka 9 from Los Angeles to Germany for a tour together with Sera Kalo and saw what happens live when postcontemporary, improvisational beat music meets the most innovative, virtuoso rap: exchange at the highest level and something really new. Exactly, future music of the third millennium!

Zur Schönen aussicht

NEU

The meta-band ZSA aka Zur Schönen Aussicht makes postcontemporary JazzBeats. After 14 years of working-band existence, six self-organized week-long interdisciplinary festivals and over 150 concerts in Europe, the three visionaries are now sending their new album "NEU" straight from the future to Boomslang Records. The ten works are a wormhole to new ways of conceiving "jazz" in the 21st century. Complex Carnatic rhythmic concepts are amalgamated with Black American improvisational artistry as well as a progressivist beats aesthetic in an enormously imaginative way to create something incomparable. ZSA's sensitive musicianship and ecstatic band energy combines rhythmic intellectuality with melodic harmonic emotionality. Producer, composer and guitarist Jo Wespel aka Beatdenker produces an immersive and groundbreaking band sound with his kindred spirit bandmates Paul Berberich (saxophone) and Florian Lauer (drums). Unique and light-hearted, the acoustic instruments metamorphose into their new, multi-layered and plural qualities. Multiperspectivity and inner logic form the musical substrate for new freedom materializations in "NEU". Self-created, determined, compositional structures are vehemently revolutionized by improvisational experimentation and sonic utopia in fearless interplay. It is ZSA's irrepressible joy of playing, their optimistic and pleasant concreteness, their future orientation, that transforms excessive demands and chaos into a new sound realism. Never before have these three instruments sounded so fat and multidimensional, challenged so cheekily but elegantly to dance to the future, or sketched such a realutopian world.

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Beatdenker
I Like IT But I Do IT

I Like It But I Do It - Beatdenker Album Cover

"I Like It But I Do It" is a concise and compressed one track album with 32 beats and atmospheres. This short-lived, fluid piece of music comes out together with a 3D animation video as a complete, intensive and immersive piece of art that constantly catapults you into new surreal worlds, perspectives and realities. On the one hand, it reflects our fast-moving world of thoughts, but also our zeitgeist as such. A time in which everything is highly compressed, as many experiences as possible should happen, as many things as possible should be done. "I Like It But I Do It" is a positive approach to this phenomenon and asks with a non-navian, optimistic view for the exhilarating and cheering aspects. On the other hand, it is a slightly dadaistic description for something that is actually very necessary. To do something one likes, or to potentiate one's own potentiality to a healthy extent and in the moral good. After my first three albums about dancing through life with futuristic dance steps, having ethic endless fun, creating own real utopias and simultaneously massive worldwide fucked up bullshit happening, I still say: Let's not give up fighting for the good, for a future worth living for all beings. the moral facts are in us, let's do better stuff, let's dare to do what we like, let's like what we do.

Beatdenker
REal Utopia

Real Utopia is a hypertemporal place designed in the future and materializing in the present. A place where we can be different and multicollectively composed without fear. A place where we all have at least similar rights and opportunities. A place where we have generated a win-win balance of cooperation and healthy competition. A place where complexity is understood as an opportunity and at the same time a positive challenge for the ever-renewing. Especially in times of multiple global crises and wars it is extremely difficult to imagine this place. But how should we create such a desirable place, or realize it in the present, if we have already given up imagining it. This must not happen, especially not where, on a global scale, halfway functioning democracies, freedoms, constitutionality and human rights still exist. With the help of cheap energy from autocracies, extreme export surpluses and distortions of competition through (economic) abuse of power within the EU, a self-created misanthropic and people-hierarchizing low-wage sector as well as a colonial history that is far from being overcome, we have created our present Germany, which is comfortable and seemingly highly deserving, at least for all non-marginalized groups. Real utopian projects have the power to change history or these absolutely different realities for the better. I produced this album at the same time that I started imagining a new music business world. With a group of 10 fellow musicians we have written an absolutely novel, self-empowering music festival, community and democracy booster concept. The project is now called Future Bloom and is my attempt to create a Real Utopia within my level of impact (and maybe beyond). I'm aware of the different and additional struggles and intersectional discriminations (graduated musicians in Germany) suffering from. But still it is hardly to grasp if artists think they do something political or cool just by living their artists lives. Let's unite, let's do better stuff, let's bring the utopian to the real!

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Beatdenker
Ethic Endless Fun

Ethic Endless Fun - Beatdenker Album Cover

After my debut album "Too Tall To Dance" I'm still pushing two things. First is making the most complexistic rhythms sounding as bouncy as possible. I developed a lot of my rhythmic influences (Carnatic Music, Experimental European Music of the 20th century) further into my own rhythmic systems, where I'm now able to imagine and concretely play more complex rhythms like triple nested tuplets in a polyrhythm like 31 over 17, means I play another 5 over e.g. certain 7 hits out of the 31 and then I play another 5 over certain e.g. 3 hits of the 5, haha. The idea is to change speeds very quickly, but with a completely awareness of what I'm doing. But still I'm mixing this approach with a more open Black American Music influenced kind of improvising. Major tasks of our time are probably the understanding of complex interrelations and contexts, to tolerate ambiguities - at the same time to resolve paradoxes - and to describe problems as concretely as possible. This album is by no means an attack on contingency, nevertheless a laudation to the concrete and a rebuff to the vague. Second is to mix that knowledge about rhythm with Dance and Electronic Beats Music, to create Future Dance Steps, means checking out how people need to move differently within my live sets. It's the coolest pleasure if people come after a concert and tell me that they moved their bodies in a way they never did before. Bämmy, haha. Most likely, no (human) being perceives time as something uniform or evenly progressing. Although I am the biggest fan of and strongly influenced by straight (programmed) beats and in the pocket grooves, at the same time i see rhythm and life and „the world“ (if it exists at all, in the way most people think of it) much more irregular, contrasty, multi-layered, diverse, multimorphic and full of dance and movement contingencies. In this sense the album wants to be a glimpse into the beats future or bringing postcontemporary beats and move(ment)s into the present. Yippie. And a last thing, my three personal slogans: ethic endless fun, imagination unlimited, demanding power from below, means: have as much fun as possible without hurting someone else (especially marginalized people and non-human entities, too), imagine the most way-out things within your work or passion, push your creativity as much as possible to reach something new and (most probably most important) join at least one political, social, plural economic, future-orientated movement and fight for a better "world". Have fun listening. Peace out!

2023
Collabs

KID BE KID
Truely a life goal but no ice cream

Digital master and guitar on "stories"

Joa Luna
Hold Space Reworked

"Echoing soul" Rework

Holy B
adventures in lo-fi
Vol. 3

Digital and Tape master and Track "Sneakin Around"

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2022
Albums - Eps

Sinularia
Subwater beats

Beatdenkers SINULARIA - Subwater Beats I - Album Cover

Since hyper-individualism with all its singularities has made us realize, how important it will be to (re)find common interfaces through concepts of multicollectivity or community lifestyles, the band members are increasingly questioning the obsessive or imposed postulation of uniqueness (what every creature is anyway) or a seeming detachment from the roots. Anyway, the three members went on a procedural journey in music and beyond. Jo Wespel (guitar, fx, comp, prod., fun), Felix Henkelhausen (double bass, fx, fun), Max Santner (drums, fx, fun) are presenting new musical findings on their debut album: Subwater Beats. The compositions are more influenced from structural thinking and a clear but kind of open, bigger vision. From the interactive perspective, different kinds of music, which implement a lot of improvisation, are very important. But the main focus of the music are rhythmic complexistic state of things and how to transform them into speculative, forward thinking and innovative music of the twenty-first century Beats and music world. Through improvisational concepts and latitudes within multilayered structures as well as a synthesis of acoustic instruments and electronic soundscapes, they create their music with all their intersecting influences - grateful to had the opportunity to learn them -, each personal habitus and true emotions. In the end they call it Subwater Beats, a positive, intense, floating, fat, humorous, emotional, fluid, most diverse fields of sense affecting, rich, hopefully not boring but heartening, new insights containing, speculative, eventful, moving, multi-textured, vulnerable, postcontemporary, challenging, creative and fun music with and from three clearly political personalities. The band's work focuses on using and openly dealing with complexistic rhythms from so called New Music and Carnatic Music. It is about exploring new compositional and improvisational concepts again and again. In other words: how to deal speculatively with very complex rhythms, among others Brian Ferneyhough or BJ Manjunath use, after a detailed examination of them? Or how to design one's own systems bringing new contingencies. How does one manage in a trio to hear three different, complex rhythmic levels and superimpositions (e.g. such as 11 over 17 over 31) and to be able to improvise with them, without losing control and to always be consciously aware of the relations to the other players? For all the appreciation of the greats of so-called Jazz and those who tackle improvisation with complex rhythms, such as Miles Okazaki or Steve Coleman, this terrain is still extremely or almost completely unexplored in contemporary music (by bands). Moreover, the band is interested in linking this with elements of Intelligent Dance Music (inspired by Aphex Twin and Squarepusher) and Beat Music (inspired by Flying Lotus and Iglooghost). This means finding improvisable beat-oriented forms and uniting the two sound worlds of acoustic instruments and produced sounds or soundscapes with the help of sophisticated and deliberated effects. Apart from all the focus on rhythm and general research work, they absolutely symbolize the underwater world with their music. The name is that of a certain coral, the music is drifting, flowing, but also sometimes unclear, so similar to water, or multi-layered and colourful like corals, the songs deal with different topics or phenomena of the underwater world and in live, performing situations they wear fluorescent jumpsuites that create an underwater world esthetic together with glowing corals in black light. They find it interesting that people have explored nearby things like the oceans much less than outer space, for example. There is still a lot to figure out there, even though it is quite close to the people‘s lives. They like to compare it - figuratively - with the fact that "we" (in our western music culture) have researched all kinds of things about harmonies, melodies or pitch in general and can imagine them really good. But with rhythm, which is perhaps closer to life, more direct or physical, it is different. (Experimental) European musicians have intellectually penetrated it, but often can't come close to interpreting, what they have written down there with precision and flow. The band members think that here, too, there's another point where "we" could rather learn slightly humbly from other cultures instead of postulating "ours" as the best. And last but not least, they are big fans of real utopian projects like "The Ocean Clean Up". This tries to fish all the plastic waste and particles out of the oceans and recycle them with a cradle-to-cradle logic. Planetary boundaries are more than real for them. They are firmly convinced that you can no longer create a serious picture of the future without accepting this. No artificial intelligence, no geoengineering, no technical progress will stop our multicrises per se. Without becoming too anthropocentric, it is we humans who can do it alone and on a global scale, they say. And this especially with real utopian projects, forward thinking and (global) movements and hopefully the „right“ (in the interest of the global common good) operations of the people in power. An open handling and trial of understanding the branches and interleavings of complexity or complex feedback systems, will be one of the major tasks of humanity. If you listen to their music, you can virtually feel, how they implicate this knowledge or awareness into their music. But this is just another aspect, of what you will be able to discover or experience, when you dive into Sinularia's multi-perspective musical world. Enjoy listening!

2022
Collabs

Blas Lamazares Fraile
Grill & Shrill

Soundtrack, Sound Design and Master

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2021
Albums - Eps

Beatdenker
Too Tall To Dance

Too Tall To Dance - Beatdenker Album Cover

The album was made in 11 days. The instantly composed tracks were recorded to the 5 tracks of the Boss RC 505 looper. Everything was played with my Ibanez AS 153 guitar through the Boss SY300 guitar syntheziser. The drum samples were also played live with the Akai MPC 500 per finger drumming. Then eveything was recorded as a stereo track with an instant arrangement and some RC 505 effects to the DAW. There I added some melodies, sounds, atmospheres, samples for transitions and worked on the mixing before mastering the 13 tracks. With a large use of polyrythms, equidistant rhythms, isorhythms, double or triple displacements, single, double or triple nested tuplets, isomelodies, uncommon subdivisions, harmonic and metric superimpositions, brain and soul this happened in a hyper creative mood with always staying in 4/4 meter underneath. The music is interested in inventing some new beats or rhythmic feels for future dance steps and life styles. This means combining the spirit and knowledge of Jazz, Indian Music, New Music, Beat Music, IDM and Electronica into a new genre called Postcontemporary Brain Beats. Besides all rhythmical complexity I do always focus on letting it sound and feel fresh, encouraging, bouncy, dancy, real, spirited and bubbly. One more rhythm thing: The language is called xenorhythm, an attempt of not to be afraid of but to welcome and invite foreign rhythms (in this case also figurative). In a time of global, multiple crises, where people are forced to leave their homes, if they wanna be able to survive – dramatically pushed by neocolonialist politics, techno-feudalism, structural rasicm, classicm, trans- and homophobia it should be clear that we at least need to be open for the unknown, and should welcome the so called foreigners. These people will bring endless – priceless – knowledge, culture and life to us. They will enrich the European (or in general the Global North) culture, as it always was. Exchange is the fundament of respect and sympathy. Therefore this music is a call for a new openness and or open mindedness for the unknown, especially people as well as music and things we don‘t know yet.

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Before 2021
Albums - Eps

Zur Schönen Aussicht
Willkommen zuhause

Zur Schönen Aussicht - Willkommen Zuhause - Album Cover

Three young musicians from the “Dresden School” literally sit down in the living room, find their very own insights and turn them into ten nice views. There are only first takes on this live album. Or better: “Onlytakes”. This is where music only exists for the moment it is recorded, where it is not “improved” afterwards. The result: A highly concentrated, suspensepacked and at the same time relaxed music making situation. Its energy communicates itself and takes the artistic balancing act of the three between fully composed themes and improvisational interpretations to the next level – full of passion, fantasy and of course with the skills necessary to make music on such a high level. The three make their own what has been found by others. They are on their way to new insights and views, thereby finding their very own and new tonal language. Insights from the living room with a nice view. This epitome of an idyllic scene goes with the idea of moral uprightness and “coziness”. The three young musicians from the “Dresden school” respond to this idea with their very own insight on nice views. Views on what jazz is and can be today. Meaningful, committed and energetic. Musical in the best sense of the term and conscious of itself and its history. Far away from and beyond the nice and mushy appearances, honest, handson and at the same time showing a lyric gesture. They have learned from the best. And these, from time to time and first and foremost Baby Sommer, boldly look over their shoulder. And while the audience – inclined or not, it cannot elude from the magic of this music – is still wondering where the three are “docking” at the moment, they have already made what they found their own, on their way to new insights and views of their own new tonal language.

2016

free improvisation "With abstract lyricism and bold humor the trio reaches your ear, unaccounted for. Ecstatic energy and structured clarity without disturbance. Absolutely worth hearing and experiencing!" - Eric Schäfer "Gentle and mysterious, concrete and energetic [...] For Listeners this music implies curiousity for more 'Schöne Aussichten'." - Günter "Baby" Sommer "Zur Schönen Aussicht impresses immediately with fat trio-sounds. With fascinating certainty the band manouvers recklessly and playfully through diverse musical terrain. Just like a bike messenger during rush hour, the music follows secret paths, shifts tempos rapidly, and is ever evolving in dynamics. The listener is enticed into a world of curious sounds. And for some relaxation in between artistic exertion the trio creates beautiful, meditative oases of reflection and contemplation. Whether on record or live: This research trio rocks. Zur Schönen Aussicht! Definitely worth hearing!" - Frank Möbus

Zur Schönen Aussicht
Schallplatte

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2015

Lederkoralle
Ausflug

Lederkoralle - Ausflug - Album Cover

Lederkoralle discovers the Subwater Jazz. How would you describe infinite Freedom under water? The ease of weightlessness when burden and stress remains on thesurface? The fascinating impressions of a new world? Or just the unfathomable deep blue? Not at all - but u can hear all of this. The trio makes it possible: Joachim Wespel (guitar, composition); FlorianKockott (bass) and Arne Müller (drums). Together they invented the "Subwater Jazz" and ensure as the band Lederkoralle for asound, that does not only make the underwater world more beautiful.Lederkoralle unites Jazz (Vijay Iyer Trio, Avishai Cohen Trio), Beats (Hip Hop, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep) and Pop (Songs, collageof sound à la Radiohead). The compositions narrate stories, paint underwater landscapes, make jokes, begin to drift and ask questions, and requireanswers.

2015

Zur Schönen aussicht
Willkommen

Paul Berberich, Joachim Wespel and Florian Lauer can hardly be assigned to one musical field alone. Being as well inward with traditional as well as free improvised music the musical biography of the trio reveals the extraordinary: Joachim Wespel joined the master class of one of the most important European musicians, Eric Schäfer, and has on top been awarded the composition prize 2008 of the college of music Dresden; Florian Lauer has been awarded the Saxonian Scholarship and several times the „Internationaler Jazzpreis Burghausen“. The trio „Zur Schönen Aussicht“ of all musicians goes without the one who normally is indispensible for the success of a band's concept in groovy situations: the bass player. But actually he's not missing at all. Without him the band's play is freed from conventions in a way only few muscians have put it into practice like Joey Baron did on „Baron Down“. As a consequence the music of „Zur Schönen Aussicht“ puts the great individual abilities of the three musicians in focus: a successful combination of groove and time, bizarre and daring material of themes and a bursting with energy lust for each and every kind of improvisation. No matter what litle bitty piece of genre the three gentlemen use they are constantly communicating via parameters as „blending of composition and improvisation“ or „intensive interaction“: playing a combination of music and sounds all in the winking presence of jazz tradition.

2014

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Sonido - Viaje 2007
Sonido seductor - sena 2003

2004 Sonido seductor - La meosona
2002 Sun wu kong - matter of opinion

Before 2021
Collabs

Zwitschermaschine
System for us

2019

Mark Weschenfelder (alto saxophone, clarinet, composition), Paul Berberich (flute), Vincent Bababoutilabo (flute, alto flute), Adrian Kleinlosen (trombone), Joachim Wespel (guitar), Andris Meinig (double bass), Florian Lauer (drums)

2017

Kid Be KiD
Sold out

Guitar on "Colours"

2015 The Shouting Men - How to carry heavy things the long way round
2010 Thomas zollers "expeditions orkest"

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