The athletic one-nineties with the shaved head and the bushy beard moves to the tricky rhythm of the music with devotion, agility and perfectly in time. For around three hours, the man in his mid-twenties can maintain the complex sequences of movements that he demands of his well-trained body. But although a considerable number of like-minded people have gathered in the interior of the summer building, the open-air box theater initiated by Mousonturm between Frankfurt and Offenbach, only a few follow the example of Alexander Schomann, as the real name of the DJ and producer Rey & Kjavik is.

It is the weekend. Before the corona pandemic, the opportunity to go out and switch off. But more than hesitant bobbing, hip rocking and nodding of the head does not seem to be possible in view of the situation at the moment. Which once again raises the question: Have we forgotten how to dance, celebrate and socialize? A phenomenon that became apparent in the summer at many concert dates in the region: In the end, there were too few visitors.

In any case, Rey & Kjavik is not responsible for the restrained behavior of the crowd.

The former booker, promoter, organizer and manager from Offenbach takes his fans on an experimental sound journey around the globe.

He not only plows the terrain of electronic dance music, but also includes heavily psychedelic moments as well as cautious pop, rock, folk and blues.

You can hear all the stylistic ingredients that have been mentioned since Schomann started as an artist around 2011 and founded his own record brand RKJVK a little later.

Diverse range of sounds

The palette ranges from the deep house of the early days with its powerfully powerful basslines to the phantasmagoric cross-fading that developed spontaneously during the first of three appearances at the legendary Burning Man Festival in Nevada and became a key moment: minimal, downtempo and tech house, underpinned with Impressions from Arabia, Africa, India and China as well as the folklore of indigenous peoples from North, Central and South America. Which resulted in the CD debut “Rkadash” (“arkadaş” is the Turkish word for friend) in 2017. The second album "Mountiri" followed a year later. Since then, various maxi singles and remixes as well as an edition of the internationally established compilation series “Buddha Bar” dedicated to Rey & Kjavik have been added.

The new album “Chapter of an Unbroken Narrow”, produced in Schomann's Seckbacher basement studio in the Batschkapp adjoining building, will also be part of the summer construction program. Especially since there is another ghost floating in the room in the dry ice mist-shrouded amphitheater. After all, it is not far from a legendary address where electronic dance music from Frankfurt once originated.

Not only the SNAP! Producers Luca Anzilotti and Michael Münzing and their record company Logic Records operated from the studio complex in the building at Strahlberger Straße 125a.

The same address also housed the labels Eye-Q and Harthouse of the DJ cult star Sven Väth as well as the German rapper Moses P., the producers Martin Haas and her Rödelheim-Hartreim project, Sabrina Setlur and Xavier Naidoo.

Alexander Schomann, born in 1982, served all of this as a drive and inspiration.