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September 2021 My cover version of “Insomnia” by Faithless has been chosen as the title track for the YOORS MUSIC CHALLENGE.  I released this track with british singer Switchsummer and the percussionplayer of dutch Metropol Orkest Frank Wardenier. The Yoors Music Challenge is hosted by innovative content creator platform Yoors. It’s a social network with

August 2021 New music videos out now! I produced the music for three artist videos that great german percussion player Ellen Mayer made for Meinl Percussions. I did not only play bass but also synthesizers and keyboards, did the programmings and the mixing. We had a great time creating those three tracks together. The first

July 2021 New music video out now! “INSOMNIA” It’s one of my favourite songs from the 90s, and now I’m glad to release our tribal-bass-version with vocals of SwitchSummer (UK) and delicious percussions of Frank Wardenier (Metropol Orkest). “I can’t get no sleep!” Watch the whole video on Yoors-Music: https://bit.ly/3hGrauO or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philipp.rehm.3/posts/3025537877703231 Listen

May 2021 I was recently performing a track of mine at the dutch TV channel BNN VARA. Bass solo & electronics – Enjoy! Or watch it on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/philipp.rehm.3/posts/2994401024150250

March 2021   It was a great solo performance at the CODA Museum Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. I took part in the ART-ROCKS-competition, for which i composed and produced a track as a soundtrack to a chosen artwork: here it is the great paper-artwork “JUNGLE” by dutch artist Couzijn van Leeuwen. Due to the corona

January 2021 Thanks Bass Musician Magazine for having me on their january edition cover! And thanks to good friend and fantastic bassplayer Michel Laredo aka “Momo” for the interview! https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2021/01/we-are-all-in-this-together-january-2021-issue/

November 2020 At the first online edition of the Guitar Summit music conference Bach’s Piano Concerto in Dm – bass comparison. Played four times comparing the violin and the club bass and different sound setups. Full video and three more that I made for Hofner Guitars at https://www.guitarsummit.de/. Check it out! https://youtu.be/PZkhByUGbik https://webcamp.guitarsummit.de/brand/karl-hofner-gmbh-co-kg/?view=videos

November 13 2020   I’m excited to do a masterclass this friday november 13 at 22:00 CET for Dingwall Guitars. It’s about creating grooves and basslines in any kind of rhythm or time signature by using subdivisions and groupings. Grap Your bass and tune in, this friday at the Dingwall Guitars FB page. Happy to

October 2020   Check out this podcast that the great Michel Laredo did with me for the new Dingwall Guitars – podcast series. We had an inspiring talk about music, life and creativity. Thanks again Michel Laredo for this great hour! Here is the link:https://www.buzzsprout.com/…/6423001-phil-rehm-the-subdivis…    

October 2020 ### Dingwall Guitars „ISOLATION“ SUPER JAM ### Check out this incredible video with Dingwall artists from all over the world, combined in one awesome track. I’m glad & thankful to be a part of it. Watch my part: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=361270458487618 Or watch the whole video (my slot is at 2:51): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2843909972511148&t=171

This Friday August 28 20:30 CET (2:30 PM EDT): LIVESTREAM CONCERT @ Thuispop.NL … It’s a great dutch streaming event with several bands and it means “AT-HOME-POP”. I’ll be playing my music again with bass & electronics. Don’t miss it! … Tickets: https://store.thuispop.nl/

I was glad to be invited for a solo stream concert for the Canadian bass company Dingwall Guitars. The concert ran on their Facebook page which is hosting a big community of bass players and music lovers from all over the world. The show was on May 29 and we tried to find a time

I’m happy & thankful to perform this track live at the Tania Kross-Netherlands-tour. Her show marks a 24-hour cycle and this track is the “middle of the night”: R.adpid E.ye M.ovement (no, I didn’t name the song after my family name). Click & take a listen:on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QJr0nLon Apple Music: https://apple.co/2ZUsu2Ton Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philipp.rehm.3/videos/477541323200418 There are

I am happy and thankful to be 53 concerts on tour with famous dutch singer Tania Kross. In the band are great artists from the Metropol Orkest and the Amsterdam Philharmonic and the Amsterdam National Opera. It is a fantastic crossover program of classical pieces, world music, and pop: Rachmaninoff, Queen, Classical Arabic music, Mozart, Madonna…

Ralf Gustke (drums) and me (bass) live at the Musikproduktiv-Messe on november 9th 2019. Thanks G&L Guitars & Yamaha Guitars for inviting us!

October 2019 In the winter semester 2019/20 Phil is teaching bass and studio & recording at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim.

Sept 2019 |  Great & productive videoshoot with Gregor at BASS THE WORLD, testing 5 great bass products and jamming some of my tunes. Check videos on my instagram-profile and on BASS THE WORLD on Youtube.[:en]Great & productive videoshoot with Gregor at BASS THE WORLD, testing 5 great bass products and jamming some of my tunes.

Happy to release my new track: “Traveler”. It is a full electronic track with a little bit of bass guitar in there. And for those who are interested: it is a house beat subdivided in 5 ! Quintuplet EDM so to say… Here is the music video:  

March 2019 Nice duo show with PLUQ in Iasi (Romania) with Ralf Gustke on drums. It was a great show and a great city. Looking forward to come back to Romania.

On april 6 I was invited by famous american bass company G&L to play some of my tracks for them at the Frankfurt Session Messe. It was great fun to be there!

This year brought more and more solo & duo shows: bass, electronics and, when with drums, Ralf Gustke. Guitar Summit Mannheim, Session Music Frankfurt, Drumtrainer Berlin, Rockshop Fest Karlsruhe and solo concerts in Mannheim and Worms … Looking forward for more to come. Check out my Youtube and Facebook videos…    

I released a wonderful collaboration called “Warawara” with the famous Dutch opera star Tania Kross. She is born on the Carribean island of Curacao and uses her voice in this track in a great crossover-way, ranging from deep tones to mystic Celtic choirs. Working on this track was really exciting and it turned out to

After playing at Mannheim Guitar Summit, I finally met Sheldon Dingwall, chief and founder of famous canadian bass company Dingwall Guitars. He and his company support me with new releases and videos and always share my material with their international fanbase. Sheldon asked to interview me and it was a fun time doing this. Check

Bass, Beats, Turntables – the new solo live set is ready to hit the stage. With beats and programmings from Philbum-songs and new tracks, and also solo versions of some rock and pop songs. First solo-concerts at Port25-Mannheim and Musikmesse Session-Frankfurt were great, more are coming soon. New 4k Videos will be posted soon.

On 11 march, drummer Ralf Gustke and me had a concert and masterclass at Berlin-based online-drum-academy drumtrainer-online.tv. The Subject was that of my upcoming book, that will be released later this year at Alfred-Music: creating grooves in any kind of time measures using the language of subdivisions. Stay tuned for news and videos about that

Merci beaucoup to the french bass magazine “BASSISTE MAGAZINE” for the great review of “Le Philbum”.

Last sunday Ralf Gustke and me played some philbum grooves and also some new material at the FEEL THE BASS FESTIVAL at Popakademie Mannheim. We had a blast playing there ! After us, Stu Hamm played a great set and I still had the chance to have a nice talk with him.