Keinemusik

Five friends named their collective "no music" because Rampa's mother insisted that house and techno did not qualify as the real thing. Founded in Berlin in 2009, Keinemusik grew out of late-night sessions at TRIXX Recording Studios in Kreuzberg, where &ME (Andre Boadu) was working as a production intern and Rampa (Gregor Sutterlin) was composing commercial music. The two had met there around 2004, bonding over hip-hop. After hours, &ME would invite friends who couldn't afford their own gear to use the studio equipment through the night, scrambling to put everything back in place before the manager arrived each morning. Rampa, who already knew Adam Port (Adam Polaszek) and Reznik (Andreas Richter), proposed they formalize what was already happening. Illustrator Monja Gentschow, a graduate of Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, became the fifth member, building the label's visual identity from a quick handwritten sketch that turned into a full aesthetic language of raw brushstrokes and earthy abstraction.

For their first several years Keinemusik released exclusively on their own imprint, putting out roughly five records annually, all from crew members. The constraint was deliberate. It kept the sound focused and the operation self-contained. David Mayer, an early member who contributed some of the label's strongest initial releases, eventually parted ways with the group around 2014. The four remaining musicians and Gentschow carried on, releasing the collective's debut album "You Are Safe" in 2017, a ten-track record by &ME, Rampa, and Adam Port featuring vocalists Chiara Noriko, Jennifer Touch, and Nomi Ruiz. A tenth-anniversary EP, "Hand in Hand," followed in 2019 alongside a celebratory tour through ten cities including New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Istanbul. Their second album, "Send Return," arrived in 2022 with an expanded cast of collaborators: Little Dragon, Solomun, RY X, and Ali Love among them.

The group's profile surged after their first Burning Man appearance in August 2022, a sunrise set on the Mayan Warrior art car during a Robot Heart link-up that the members later called a career highlight. From there, Keinemusik began staging their own destination events under the banner "Kloud," which landed at the Great Pyramids of Giza in April 2024 and the UNESCO World Heritage site of AlUla in Saudi Arabia in 2025. Adam Port's single "Move," released in June 2024 with Stryv and Malachiii, reached number one in Switzerland, Belgium (Flanders), and Portugal, and cracked the top ten in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. A remix featuring Camila Cabello pushed it into the UK top ten that October.

Keinemusik runs its own booking agency, Worldwide Dancing Club, established in 2018. Reznik, who also managed the label for several years, DJs alongside the other three. Gentschow still paints every cover by hand. The operation remains what it was at the start: a small circle of friends who share equipment, studio time, and a preference for doing things themselves.