2xLP of both volumes of Destroyer, now as one double album, with both discs in a gatefold jacket. Destroyer 1 art is the cover, with Destroyer 2 the back cover, with each respective album's inner sleeve represented in original form.

La Demence is since more than 30 years the biggest european gay party, based in Brussels, The party take place every month in one of the best club of the world, the legendary FUSE. We will offer you every week a one hour set by our resident team : House, Garage, Techno, Tribal, Nu-Disco, Tech-House, Tribal, Progressive, Trance & Psy Trance

Thomas M (BE) has been passionate about listening to and discovering music since childhood. At the age of 18, he purchased his first two turntables and a second-hand mixer. Soon, he began exploring new sounds with open ears.

He evolved towards more non-commercial sounds, participating in contests, he started broadcasting, sending demo sets, till he got a residence as DJ at Naughty (Brussels).

Thomas currently specializes in underground melodic techno, progressive and trance, favouring warm sounds to create a surprising and enjoyable atmosphere for the audience to dance along. His priority is to establish a connection between himself, the people, and the music.

Thomas has been a resident at Naughty (Brussels), Mezzo Giorno (Antwerp), Revelation (Brussels) and Red & Blue (Antwerp). He has performed at various parties across Europe, including Kluster (Madrid) Naughtycontrol (Cologne), Hustlaball (Berlin), Gorilas (Rome), Infinita (Ibiza), Pitbull (Vienna), Play (Moscow), Under (Paris), Gibus & Scream (Paris). 

Regularly, he plays at events like GreenKomm (Cologne), Divergent & Pitbull (Vienna), Red&Blue (Antwerp), Vendredi XXL (Paris), Strong (Madrid), etc.

Since 2018, Thomas has been running CAVE, a monthly underground party concept in Brussels that has become a must in the city's electronic music scene, featuring both local talent and top-level national & international guest DJs.

More info: www.cavebrussels.com

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


"LA TROYA" is known as the authentic fiesta and best night of Ibiza. The father of the creature is Brasilio de Oliveira, an icon in Ibiza and the rest of the world, for his innumerable events in Ku-Ibiza and Ku-Privilege one of the first clubs in the island. More than 30 years making parties and connecting people, has become the oldest, respected and wanted promoter on the island.

LA TROYA started the Ku-Privilege called "La Vaca Asesina" where it broke public records for 4 years, followed by Amnesia for another 14 years with the same glamor where it won the prize of the best party in the world and where Brasilio was manager for 4 years taking all the 7 parties of the week to succeed. From Amnesia to Space Ibiza where he stays for another 4 years because all the best clubs want to try the success of LA TROYA.

Around the world more them 100 parties held in the best nightclubs in the most exciting capitals.

However, every Wednesday night, happiness, illusion, magic, and transgression are bestowed upon thousands of admirers from all over the world.

Keeping the same team and image with the same tone of freedom and harmony for so many years is a very great success.

LA TROYA is now in the Heart Ibiza club of the creator of Circo du Soleil, where creativity and art come together to promote the best and most authentic Ibiza night.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1964, Offer Nissim is the owner of his own label, named Offer Nissim Music Publishing. 
He made his name as a DJ, specializing in creating a signature sound recognized instantly. 
He has performed/ spun his mixes and studio works all over the world, and established a a name for himself as a mega-DJ. Nissim's production work began in 1993, and over the years he has had a hand in a number of singles and remixes, featuring works by Beyoncé, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Deborah Cox, Christina Aguilera, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Lana Del Rey, and more. 
Offer’s success as a Producer, Remixer and a world known musician, is what brought Peter Rauhofer, a DJ/Remixer and Grammy award winner, owning the successful Dance label Star69 Records in New York City, to sign Offer in 2004. 
That same year, other than being the top leading DJ in Israel, Nissim became an icon among music lovers all over the country, when he was named DJ and Man of the year, 4th year in a row, by the music and nightlife magazines "DJ Ha’ir” and “Layla”. 
The electrifying and striking presence on the turntables and the unique sound created in Nissim's studio works, have come to immediately bring his name to mind among clubbers in general, and gay clubbers in particular. 
Nissim's performance, which combines sweeping moves with an energetic atmosphere, creates a very unique bond between himself and his audience. 
Nissim has established himself as a cultural hero, enjoying the success of Five double albums, and responsible for the musical production and success of Dana International, winner of the 1998 Eurovision song contest. 
In recent years, Nissim had created official remixes for Mylene Farmer, and also for Madonna; e.g. TUTR, GGW (2012), Living For Love, and Ghosttown (2015). 
Additionally, he was one of the DJs taking part in Madonna’s MDNA show tour, and has recently created & produced the hit song and video clip for “Everybody Needs a Man” with Maya Simantov. 
Today Offer Nissim is leading in all main festivals, cities, pride parties and events all around the world.
Booking info:
offernissim11@gmail.com 

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TiM TASTE is a driving minimal techno producer and DJ, as well as the founder of Subios Records. With his signature sound of pulsating rhythms and hypnotic soundscapes, he has gained recognition in the techno scene. His unique approach to minimalism in music creates a captivating and immersive experience on the dance floor.

Contact:
timtaste.music ( at ) gmail (dot) com

Booking:
steven ( at ) livefromoon (dot) com

GREENKOMM:

The Green Komm after hour is internationaly well known and one of the most popular events in Europe with its international and local DJs since 1993. Many clubs in Cologne tried to copy the concept of Green Komm but did not succeed. The only Green Komm is Green Komm! Nothing else! Green Komm sound fusing progressive trance and house tunes is unique in Germany.

NAUGHTY CONTROL:

Launched in 2006, Naughty’s goal was to reunite Europe’s finest DJs, artists, performers in order to give a high quality party. In 2008, Naughty finally arrives in Cologne. A new party was born: NaughtyControl. The first three editions were concidered as a blast, the best party of CSD Cologne with the finest house and progressive selection and became really the place to be to close the weekend. Clubbers from Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Spain, Italy were there in a celebration of music, happiness and love. They did not want to miss this evening for nothing in the world…

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