bookings: ma@mbartists.co.uk
mgmt: wessel@bumblebeat.me

From FR based in PT
Booking : renaud@swarm-mgmt.com

Boss @mutualpleasure

Bookings
MGMT: jarred@overcastmgmt.com
EU + UK - nick.cave@teamwass.com
N & S America: bshprits@teamwass.com

UP NEXT:
11.10.25: Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
10.10.25: M7, Barcelona, Spain
02.10.25: Palais, München
20.09.25: Label Night, Beate Uwe, Berlin
19.09.25: Soli-Event, Johnny Knüppel, Berlin
13.09.25: Ritter Butzke, Berlin
16.08.25 Roomie, Mar Del Plata
15.08.25 Kindergarden, Crobar, Buenos Aires
09.08.25 Escon, Lieber Scholli, München
08.08.25 Zweitakt Festival
02.08.25 Zugvoegel Festival
26.07.25 Bachblyten Festival
25.07.25 Mit Dir Festival
20.07.25 Lesbisch-Schwules Stadtfest, Berlin
12.07.25 Ketonien X Odonien, Köln
05.07.25 Unterholz Festival, Pforzheim
28.06.25 Techno Dampfer, Hamburg
14.06.25 Westhafen Open Air, Leipzig
07.06.25 Draußen Am See Festival
30.04.25 Club Renate, Berlin, Germany
17.04.25 Secret Location, Munich, Germany
13.04.25 Bambu Huts, Koh Phangan, Thailand
12.04.25 Hollystone, Koh Phangan, Thailand
08.04.25 Escobar, Koh Tao, Thailand
05.04.25 Half Moon, Koh Phangan, Thailand
08.02.25 Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt
07.02.25 Unicorn, Cologne
01.02.25 Wohnzimmertechno, Void, Berlin
31.01.25 Ritter Butzke, Berlin
24.01.25 Rotonde XXL, Paris
18.01.25 Frederics, Freiburg
11.01.25 Fundbureau, Hamburg
05.01.25 Le Lapin Vert, Nendaz
08.12.24: Ciclo ISIS, Buenos Aires (ARG)
07.12.24: 420, Rio Negro (ARG)
30.11.24: Aqua, San Luis (ARG)
24.11.24: Alto San Andres, Valparaiso (Chile)
22.11.24: Wabi Fun Club, Mendoza (ARG)
21.11.24: Zegre, Buenos Aires (ARG)
18.11.24: Galeria, Buenos Aires (ARG)
16.11.24: Paraná, Entre Rios (ARG)
09.11.24: Melt Underground, Buenos Aires (ARG)
08.11.24: Livit X Metanoia at Apres, Bariloche (ARG)
02.11.24 Kindergarden at Crobar, Buenos Aires (ARG)
26.10.24 Roomie, Mar Del Plata (ARG)
19.10.24 Hoppetosse, Berlin
04.10.24 Kitkat Club, Berlin
28.09.24 VOID Club, Berlin
21.09.24 Gestrandet Mitte, Berlin
20.09.24 Birgit Club, Berlin
14.09.24 Kabinett der Kuriositäten (Tanzhaus West), Frankfurt
13.09.24 Palais, München
07.09.24 Fundbüro, Hamburg
06.09.24 Klunkerkranich, Berlin
31.08.24: Suedpol, Hamburg
23.08.24: Moyn Festival Workshop
23.08.24: Moyn Festival, Oyten
18.08.24: UNCOMMON Showcase, Rennes (FR)
16.08.24: Bucht der Träumer, Frankfurt (Oder)
03.08.24: Sisyphos, Berlin
03.08.24: Ritter Butzke, Berlin
02.08.24: Praerie Festival, Drebkau
27.07.24: CSD w/ Wohnzimmertechno, Berlin
06.07.24: Birgit Club, Petrified Phoenix, Berlin
28.06.24: Fusion Festival, Extravaganza
15.06.24: Dit Klingt Jut, Birgit und Bier
08.06.24: Skypalooza, Fehrbellin
07.06.24: Medis 2024, Main
31.05.24: Wohnzimmertechno, Void, Berlin
25.05.24: We Are Freaks @ AVA Club, Berlin
11.05.24: Beschäftigungstherapie @ Birgit Club, Berlin
10.05.24: Bahnwärther Thiel, München
08.05.24: Operator @ Renate, Berlin
01.05.24: HouseCat Rave, Lokschuppen
27.04.24: Savage, Reeperbahn, Hamburg
26.04.24: Brain Club, Braunschweig
20.04.24: Void Club, Berlin Wohnzimmertechno 
06.04.24: Ritter Butzke w/ Township Rebellion
05.04.24: Reso Soli-Tour, Lübeck
13.03.24: Sunshine Live
09.03.24: Radio X Hungary
08.03.24: Dark Nine, Budapest
01.03.24: Frau Holle, Hamburg
17.02.24: Hollystone, Koh Phangan, Thailand
11.02.24: Salud, Goa, India
04.02.24: Cult Terra, Pune, India
27.01.24: Waagenbau im Exil, Schroedingers, Hamburg
12.01.24: Flucc, Wien
31.12.23: Fourplay, Aeve, Berlin
23.12.23: Ritter Butzke w/ AKA AKA, Berlin
10.12.23: Ciclo Isis, San Vincente, ARG
09.12.23: Ogham, Bariloche, ARG
03.12.23: Aftershow Party, Galeria, ARG
02.12.23: Kindergarden, Crobar, Buenos Aires, ARG
25.11.23: Zwischenbau, Rostock
10.11.23: ICA presents Dax J, PAL, Hamburg
04.11.23: Rebellion der Träumer, Wilde Renate, Berlin
31.10.23: Halloween, Colosseum, Essen
27.10.23: Circus Of Sound, Moudon, Switzerland
13.10.23: Waagenbau, Hamburg
07.10.23: ICA on Tour, Dark Nine, Budapest
02.10.23: Gratitude, Gleis 44, Ulm
29.09.23: Operator X Buschtanz, Aeden, Berlin
16.09.23: Green Groove, Unverschämt, Berlin
09.09.23: Bootshaus, Cologne
07.09.23: Variety, Renate, Berlin
02.09.23: Love On Time Spree Boat Cruise, Berlin
27.08.23: Hypnotika Events pres. Fab Massimo, Bhopal, India
26.08.23: The Banger Project, Bangalore, India
25.08.23: Molecule, Goa, India
20.08.23: Bucht der Träumer Festival
12.08.23: Terranova Festival
11.08.23: Buschtanz Festival
05.08.23: CSD Hamburg w/ Second Impulse
04.08.23: Houseelujah Beach Club, Mühlheim
28.07.23: Sisyfass (House Set), Berlin
22.07.23: House of House, Münster
08.07.23: Midsummer Open Air, Hamburg
24.06.23: Love On Time Boat Cruise, Berlin
23.06.23: Gaga, Hamburg
16.06.23: Ritter Butzke w/ Eli & Fur
28.05.23: Operator Open Air, Suicide Circus
27.05.23: VOID Club, Berlin
21.05.23: Dit Klingt Jut, Berlin
30.04.23: KitKat Club Berlin
29.04.23: Open Air am Bismarckturm, Rathenow & Hyperion, Club Zimmermann, Cologne
16.04.23: Sage Beach, Berlin
14.04.23: Invasion, Rotunde, Bochum
08.04.23: Brain Club, Braunschweig
01.04.23: Houselujah, Westend Club, Essen
31.03.23: Sisyphos, Berlin
24.03.23: Bohnengold, Berlin
25.02.23: Unterholz Festival Indoor
11.02.23: Unverschaemt, Berlin
10.02.23: Palais, Munich
03.02.23: KitKat Club, Berlin
21.01.23: Club Schimmerlos, Regensburg
01.01.23 NYE, Ritter Butzke, Berlin

Berlin-based half-German half-Puerto-Rican music producer Fab Massimo has always been a musician at heart. With over a decade of experience in music production, he settled into his own unique interpretation of Tech House called Rolling Tech House that constitutes a fiercely energetic escape from the commercial funk that is currently swarming the scene.

Since his debut release in 2019, he managed to create a hype around his steadily growing reputation. In 2021 his single “MY MAN” sky-rocketed on the Beatport charts, hitting the overall all genres #11 and got over 500k hits on Spotify, receiving showers of praise. His follow-up single “Smile for Me” cemented the success with over a million streams on Spotify. Fab's 2023 kick-off release "This Track" did just as well with over million streams on Spotify to date.

In addition to his passion for music, Fab Massimo is actively involved in social media to raise awareness about mental health, promote a contemporary view of masculinity, and advocate for authenticity in the music scene.

Bookings: marian@innercircle.agency

For Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has become a great label to call home. In 2013 the German imprint celebrated 20 years of record releases at the cutting edge of electronic music, championed in June by one of the most genre re-defining albums and personal music projects for an era: Kölsch’s landmark long player, ‘1977’.

A melodic autobiography on black wax, the Kölsch project has seen 36/37-year-old Rune take stock of a diverse and successful production career and draw upon his own personal beginnings: a nostalgia for childhood, family, friends and the confusion of applying his split-cultural heritage to what it means to think of ‘home’. As Rune freely admits, “being half Irish, half German and living in Denmark – it was all one big messy period of my life.” 

Born to hippie parents in the freetown of Christiania (a commune-like autonomous borough of the Danish capital Copenhagen) his childhood was spent surrounded by creativity. His mother was an artist whose family had roots in German politics and his father a singer songwriter who travelled through Asia playing music in the early 70's. Kölsch, however, did miss out on building friendships and found solace in making up “this imaginary world that I would spend days in,” before the family moved to Germany – a period of memories, relations and characters from which ‘1977’ derives its titles.

For Rune, the tracks he began building from 2010 took in this personal reflection, his being “completely locked in to reminiscing about what shaped me as a kid and into the individual that I am now” – contemplating his unique past to form the brickwork of ‘1977’, one of the most future-facing techno albums of recent years.

Influenced by hip hop, pop and the incredible legacy of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, Rune started producing in 1995, embarking on a string of success stories. In 2003 he released the multi-million selling, saxophone-infused ‘Calabria’, that saw collaboration requests pouring in from artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Flo Rida. He then set up Tattoorecs – releasing pioneering underground tracks with no titles, just tattoos for artwork, that garnered critical acclaim and support from minimal and techno trailblazers such as Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Tiefschwarz and Ricardo Villalobos.

This appreciation of the complete musical spectrum has gifted Rune with a devotion to groove and melodics and with it the dexterity to input real creative change to the genres he reveres, not least his beloved techno. “2010 was the year of the ketamine house wave, where the music was 118 bpm and everything was extremely boring”, reflects Rune. “I wanted some melodic techno, some energy back in this scene. People needed the energy to express themselves and go crazy for a bit.”

This notion faced opposition, even from within Rune’s close circles. But it was Kompakt founder Michael Mayer who had the insight to see what Kölsch was trying to achieve. Rune’s conviction that vibrations and melodics are the key to human response had tipped the balance, underlined by his experience as a hip hop DJ where he “needed something to catch me and drag me in. And that’s what techno should do!” Here too he drew on his love of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, recalling how “they used to make mistakes all the time. It would be a big mash of all kinds of stuff, but at least something was happening. That’s what I was missing and that’s what I’m trying to change with the Kölsch project.”

The result is ‘1977’, a personal collection of dancefloor destroyers that are continuing to send clubs and festivals across the globe into melodic supernova. Take this video of Kölsch’s set at Belgium’s I Love Techno festival, one of Rune’s 2013 highlights, where “people were doing sit downs, singing along to all the tracks”. Watch it. It puts the hairs up on the back of your neck. “The response was overwhelming,” said Rune in a recent interview with Mixmag (who named Kölsch as one of their ‘Stars Of 2013’), as “when you think about it, it was just a bunch of childhood memories with a kickdrum underneath.” 

Elsewhere he’s ripped up the airways with an acclaimed Essential Mix for Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, delivered his incendiary soundscape to Singapore’s world-renowned ZoukOut Festival, boomed his live show through the heaving basement of London’s XOYO and played the hallowed Space Terrace – in his words “a boyhood dream since I started going to Ibiza in 1999. That was what I wanted from life!” So opening Amnesia in 2014 with Joris Voorn will be a bonus then...

While these are reasons enough to keep the beaming smile beneath Kölsch’s trademark black fedora, his humility remains just as striking. While tracks like ‘Goldfisch’ have taken pivotal positions in the set lists of world class DJs from across the dance music spectrum – traversing the underground with Seth Troxler, while simultaneously providing credible new euphoric highs for the likes of Axwell – Rune remains joyously down to earth. All despite producing, with ‘1977’, an album that has crossed as many cultural and musical boundaries as his own childhood past.

From the face-twisting melodic drive of ‘Opa’ and ‘Bappedekkel’, to the chord-surfing piano groove of ‘Der Alte’ and the euphoric crescendos of ‘Lorely’, ‘Oma’ and ‘All That Matters’ (all hits in different countries), the fact remains that whether in your living room, on the dancefloors of the world’s greatest parties, or simply in your headphones on your way home, Kölsch’s ‘1977’ has re-defined techno and become an achievement that speaks for itself. 

Words: Phil Dudman – Clubs & Live Music Editor, Mixmag


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