Keinemusik

A Berlin night shift, and a label with no plan

Keinemusik started in Berlin in 2009 out of shared studio time rather than a business idea. Rampa and André, who records as &ME, met on night shifts at Trixx Studios in the city and found they worked the same way; Adam Port, Reznik and the visual artist Monja Gentschow completed the founding group. Rampa's own first record for the label, the Wife EP, came the same year. Asked about it in an interview published in November 2019, he put the method flatly: "We had no strategy then, and we have no strategy now."

Their base for the first stretch was Stattbad in Wedding, a converted public baths where the dancefloor sat in the drained pool; it carried them from 2010 until it closed in 2016. Output stayed deliberately small, around five records a year, a rate Rampa defended on the grounds that time spent on something raises its quality and its value. The touring spread faster than the catalogue — Ibiza, Norway and the United States by 2010, Colombia, Indonesia and Australia by 2014. In 2018 the collective set up its own booking arm, Worldwide Dancing Club, so the diary stopped passing through anyone else's office.

The restraint extended to that diary. Rampa took most of 2015 off after stretches of more than twenty gigs a month, then capped himself at 42 shows a year, complaining about a circuit where "everything is like more, more, more. Faster, faster, faster." That ceiling is worth holding in mind against the scale the group now plays at.

The catalogue, and the records that carried

You Are Safe, released in 2017, was written and produced by Adam Port, &ME and Rampa with guest vocals from Chiara Noriko, Nomi Ruiz and Jennifer Touch — the first time the three presented themselves as one studio act rather than a label of soloists. In 2019 the label's fiftieth release, Terrace/Garden by Rampa and &ME, was made for Circoloco's twentieth anniversary in Ibiza. Send Return followed in November 2021, bringing in Solomun, RY X and Little Dragon.

Two pieces of non-club exposure widened the audience. In December 2020 the collective appeared in Grand Theft Auto Online's Cayo Perico Heist update, playing a virtual club in Los Santos, and in 2021 they recorded for the BBC's Essential Mix. Then in 2022 Rampa and &ME took production credits on Falling Back and A Keeper on Drake's Honestly, Nevermind, which placed their drum programming on a record bought by people who had never heard of Stattbad.

The recent run has kept to the same cadence: Thandaza and Move, with Malachiii, in 2024, then a 2026 sequence of Crazy For It with Boys Noize, See You Again with Sevdaliza, and Be The One, credited to Adam Port, Keinemusik and SG Lewis and released on 24 April 2026 as the label's 75th catalogue number. That last one began when Port and SG Lewis met in Los Angeles in 2023 and was road-tested in sets through the months before release — a fair description of how most of the catalogue gets finished.

Pyramids, a runway, and an arena cameo

On 19 April 2024 Rampa, &ME and Adam Port played their first Egyptian show, a sold-out open-air set in front of the Great Pyramids of Giza produced by the events brand other.experience. The same year they entered the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll at number 35.

The bigger marker came on 23 August 2025, when the three played a homecoming show on the runway of the disused Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Organisers went in expecting 60,000 people and reported more than that on the day; the show sold out and put visible strain on the city's transport. Local coverage framed it as Ibiza and Coachella arriving on Tempelhofer Feld, and the sameness of the crowd became its own running joke — the gag being that Berlin had suddenly filled up with Munich. Setlist.fm logs more than a dozen tracks from the night, among them Hold On, Let Go and a remix of Location.

In May 2026 the Drake connection turned physical. Rampa was brought out at Berlin's Uber Arena for a surprise set of roughly fifteen minutes before Drake's own show, running custom edits that cut Drake acapellas over Keinemusik material — Muyè folding into One Dance — in front of an arena audience rather than a club one.

Where they stand in late 2026

Keinemusik placed 31st in the 2026 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll, two years after entering at 35. The magazine's own summary of their year lists the SG Lewis single, work with Thomas Bangalter around Art Basel, the Drake appearance in Berlin, and sets at the Ibiza clubs Pacha and DC-10.

Ibiza in 2026 was handled as one-offs rather than a residency. Rampa and &ME headlined Pacha on Sunday 24 May 2026, a 23:00 to 06:00 night with tickets from €90, billed as a rare takeover rather than a weekly slot — consistent with a group that has always preferred a short run of large dates to a summer of the same room.

The outstanding date is in the desert. Pacha ICONS at the Bab Al Shams Event Arena outside Dubai was first announced for March 2026 and moved to Saturday 21 November 2026 because of the situation in the Middle East. It is the full trio's first desert show in the UAE, running 7pm to 4am, with entry tiers from Dhs300 before 10pm, Dhs450 on the dancefloor, Dhs800 in the arena, Dhs1,000 for front row and Dhs3,500 for backstage, and promoted on staging, lighting and visuals rather than on a booth. Songkick currently lists it as the only date on sale under the Keinemusik name, with the members' solo bookings carrying the rest of the calendar.

What the night actually is

A Keinemusik headline show is long and undivided. Yas Gateway Park in Abu Dhabi on 5 December 2025 ran from 22:30 to 05:00; Zamna in Tulum on 6 January 2026 finished at 10:00 in the morning; Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne followed on 2 April 2026. The members share the booth back to back instead of taking separate hours, which is why documented setlists from different nights overlap heavily without repeating — their two Coachella sets in April 2025 drew on the same pool of material in a different order.

The music is mostly their own: catalogue tracks, unreleased edits and remixes of their own records, weighted towards percussive house and the Afro-leaning end of it rather than a build-and-drop structure. Visual design has been in-house since the start through founding member Monja Gentschow, and the staging on the larger shows is sold as an audio-visual production rather than a DJ appearance.