Ben Böhmer is a German composer, producer and
DJ from
Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...
, Germany. He primarily produces and performs deep and progressive house music, and is currently signed on to the labels Anjunadeep, Keller Records, Cercle Music, and his own label - Ton Töpferei.
Career
Ben Böhmer played piano and trumpet in his childhood before he began to compose music with the synthesizer.
At the end of 2015 he produced his first single, Promise You, which appeared on the ''Mauerblümchen'' (Ger.,
wallflower
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) compilation of his own label Ton Töpferei, based in his home town of Göttingen, Germany. On November 1, 2016, the eponymous Promise You EP, also on Ton Töpferei, was released. This was followed by other releases on Keller Records, Ostfunk Records, Bade Records, Audiolith Records, Carton-Pate Records, The Soundgarden Records and Freundchen Records.
After witnessing some success, Ben's Submission EP was released in 2017 on the label Sacrebleu, headed by German DJ duo AKA AKA, which was founded in the same year.
On 22 September 2017 Böhmer published the single Flug & Fall on the fourth exploration compilation of the London label Anjunadeep. Shortly thereafter in early 2018, another release - Morning Falls EP, followed.
Böhmer has performed at the Distortion Festival 2017 in
Copenhagen
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, at the Habitat Festival, Anjunadeep Open Air in London and at the Tomorrowland Festival in Belgium, in 2018. Ben Böhmer has also performed in Cyprus, the
Czech Republic
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,
France
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, Italy, Spain,
Greece
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and India. He also performed at Group Therapy 300 in Hong Kong, an annual concert headlined by
Above & Beyond. This was his first performance at a Group Therapy event.
In July 2018, he released another 3 track EP - Dive, on the Anjunadeep label. In the same year, he collaborated with fellow Anjunadeep artist
Lane 8
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to release a remix of his track 'Hold On'.
In November 2019, he released his debut LP - Breathing, on the label Anjunadeep.
Discography
Albums
* ''Breathing'' (2019)
* Breathing (Remixed) (2020)
* Live From Printworks London (2020)
* ''Begin Again'' (2021)
EPs
* ''Black Pattern'' (2014)
* ''Faltering'' (2015)
* ''The Blender'' (2016)
* ''Promise You'' (2016)
* ''Submission'' (2017)
* ''Morning Falls'' (2018)
* ''Dive'' (2018)
* ''Fliederregen/Reflection'' (2019)
* ''Phases'' (2020)
* ''The Apparitions''
(with Rob Moose
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Early life and education
Moose was born in 1982. He was raised in Windsor, Connect ...
) (2022)
Singles
* Purple Line (Vom Menschen, Keller records 2017)
* Faltering (2015)
* Dive (2018)
* Ground Control (2018)
* Black Hole (with
Monolink
Monolink is the stage name of Steffen Linck, a German singer-songwriter and electronic dance music producer who specializes in ambient, techno, electronica and house genres.
Music career
A member of the Berlin electronica scene, Monolink q ...
, 2019)
* Lost in Mind (Volen Sentir Mixes) (with Malou, 2020)
* Cappadocia (2020)
* Run Away (with
Tinlicker
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featuring Felix Raphael, 2021)
* Weightless (With Panama, 2021)
* Beyond Beliefs (2021)
* Escalate (With JONAH, 2021)
* Erase (With lau.ra, 2021)
* A Matter Of Time (2021)
References
External links
www.benboehmer.comBen Böhmerat
Resident Advisor
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Living people
German DJs
21st-century German composers
Electronic dance music DJs
1994 births