Beatdenker - Future Dance Steps

​Beatdenker

Future Dance Steps
self-released; 2025

By Dan Weston

Berlin-based artist Beatdenker doesn’t make music that fits easily into genres or moods. He makes motion. Future Dance Steps, his latest full-length, is a dizzying, kinetic blur of experimental composition and improvisational electronics that feels less like an album and more like a broadcast from some post-human club in orbit. I’ve been familiar with his shape-shifting presence for a while. Beatdenker’s always had a reputation for merging disciplines, but this record pushes that idea to a thrilling extreme. It’s restless, searching, and deeply physical in a way most experimental music isn’t.

The record opens with “I Have Never Moved My Body Like That Before,” and it immediately felt like I was inside a collapsing machine that had learned how to dance. Skittering rhythms dart around sharp metallic textures, calling to mind Aphex Twin or early Oneohtrix Point Never, but with an organic looseness that makes it feel alive. “Next Time I'll Join You Dancing” doesn’t break the spell. It just deepens it. The transitions feel intuitive, like improvisations that snapped perfectly into place by accident or fate.

“Then You Def Should Join The Spacecraft Thingy” became a quick favorite. It leans on a warped hip-hop beat that feels like it’s been filtered through zero gravity. The low end rumbles while everything else fractures and reforms around it. “Hi, I Am A Future Being, Let's Dance” is one of the most striking pieces. It folds in orchestral elements that somehow feel totally at home next to arpeggiated synths and digital squeals. The track has an eerie warmth, like a memory of something that hasn’t happened yet.

Beatdenker’s sense of humor also peeks through on tracks like “Hey Beaty, I Was Calling You,” which sounds like someone bootstrapping techno from rotary phone samples. “Oh Yeah, Welcome To The Future” piles on glitch-heavy beats that trip over themselves in exhilarating ways. By the time I reached the closer, “Right And Then I Gave You This Beat, Peace Out,” I felt like the album had taken me somewhere unfamiliar but also somehow personal.

​This is not a collection of songs you put on in the background. It demands attention. Future Dance Steps feels conceptual without being cold, cerebral without being detached. Beatdenker doesn’t just want to move your body. He wants you to question how, and maybe even why, it moves at all.

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