Nico Pusch is inspired by so many genres. To focus on just one style was always not the right way for him. Rather, he goes his own way and makes music as it should be, simply beautiful . . .

Since 1997 
SUNSHINE LIVE - Electronic Music Radio

Berlin / Mannheim / Zürich (CH)

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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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O7.O2. - Ms Treue, Bremen
14.O2. - Station Endlos, Halle
22.O2. - Bambule, Cassiopeia
02.03.  - Karneval der Kolleltive, Köln
O7.O3.  - Lila Miezen, Nürnberg
O8.O3.  - Licious, Kater Blau
23.O3. - Sonntagstratsch, Leipzig
3O.O3. - Openair, Berlin
O4.O4. - Klaus, Zürich
O6.O4. - SISYPHOS Debut 
18.O4.  - Liminal Transmissions, Kater Blau
19.O4. - Fete de l'amour, Humboldthain
O3.O5. - Disco, Spa & Beauty Rave
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O3.1O -  Rebellion der Träumer, Renate
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28.O2. -  Station Endlos Closing 
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22.O3.    Artheather, Köln
O2.O5.    Candyflip, Club OST
24.O5.     Sachsentrance, about blank
3O.O5.     Silikon,  Euphorik, Club Ost
13.O6.     Charles Bronson
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13.O7.      CoSy Festival b2b Ohohouzo
23.O7.     Signals, Lokschuppen
O1.O8.     Silikon, Lokschuppen
15.O8.      Bucht der Träumer Festival b2b Ohohouzo
20.08.      Pool Series, Hardcore Entertainment
23.08.      DUALISM Weekender with GOAT BALL, Sachsentrance, About Blank
23.O8.       Onlytr4nce Release Party, Lokschuppen
O4.O9.      Mystic Creatures Festival
O9.O9.       Sachsentrance Track Premiere Release
2O.O9.       Sachsentrance FLINTA Demo, Leipzig
2O.O9.       Neutrum, Lokschuppen
O3.1O.        Verknipt, Club Ost
O8.1O.        Signals w/ Ivana Parti 
11.1O.          Licious, Ritter Butzke
25.11.          Schwuz, Berlin
O4.11.          Sachsentrance Track Premiere 
O7.11.          Arttheater w/ Ivana Parti, Köln
O8.11.          Aeden, Berlin
22.11.          Lokschuppen b2b Bbymeister
O8.12.         Sachsentrance, Südpol
26.12.         Sachsentrance Podcast Release
27.12.         CUTE, Lokschuppen
31.12.         Bodies, Aeden
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Es begann mit einer zufälligen Begegnung, schnell war klar, da gibt es nicht nur Sympathie, da entsteht eine Freundschaft, verbunden durch die Liebe zur Musik. 
Chrissi und Dominic nennen sich Sound Rabauken - treibende Beats gepaart mit melodischen Klängen und coolen Vocals - der Name ist Programm. Nicht mal ein Jahr ist vergangen,vom ersten Auftritt in einem kleinen Club bis hin zu Resident DJ's im Klubhaus Stocksen,ein steiler Aufstieg in kurzer Zeit für die beiden Newcomer aus Thüringen. Der erste eigene Remix zur Single „ID“ von Michael Patrick Kelly ist fertig und läuft schon jetzt in vielen Clubs. Aber nicht nur in den Clubs sind die zwei aktiv. Jede Woche läuft ein neuer „Rabauken Cast“ auf den Social Media Kanälen, bei dem die Sound Rabauken ihr Können unter Beweis stellen.
Ihre Sets leben von Kreativität, von Langeweile keine Spur. Sie gehen mit der Zeit, aber auch ein tanzbarer Remix eines 80er oder 90er Hits taucht öfter mal auf.
Lasst euch verführen von ihrem Sound und seid dabei wenn sie die Tanzfläche zum ausrasten bringen.Ihr Stil ist vielfältig und markant, ihre Auftritte bleiben im Gedächtnis – die Rabauken rocken jeden Club!

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