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Aus Brasspop wird jetzt Progressive Brass Future Punk“ sagt die Band augenzwinkernd selbst über ihre wuchtige Schöpfungen. Kann man allen Ernstes eine Single mit dem psychedelischen Satz „Eva ist auf A.D.A.M!“ beginnen? Querbeat sagt wie immer: Ja, "Früher wird alles besser"!
Von Grenzen waren die Musiker eh nie große Fans. „Go get it, get that dream!“ ist die sampleartige Songintro-Aufforderung von Querbeat, deren eigener Traum im Pre-Corona Sommer 2019 auf den Bühnen von Lollapalooza, Parookaville, Hurricane und vielen weiteren Festivals Form annahm. Wer keinen Tanz-Platz bei ihrer ausverkauften Tour bekommen hat, verhalf wahrscheinlich ihrem letzten Album „Randale & Hurra“ in die Top 10.
 
Gäbe es einen Soundtrack für den Tag, an dem Social Distancing ein für alle Mal verboten wird – Querbeats neue Single wäre wohl hoch im Kurs.  „Früher wird alles besser“ – und zwar viel früher als du denkst, ist ihre radikal positive Botschaft, mit der sie auf ihre Arche voll treibender Grooves und tanzgarantierenden Bläserriffs einladen. Noah hätte sich wohl gefreut, wäre sein Boot zur Venue für Querbeat geworden.
Der Song ist die brassifizierte frohe Botschaft und eine Ansage an alle, die Angst haben vor dem Versuchen. An alle, die mit dem Aufhören endlich aufhören sollen. „Wer suchtet, der findet, das Leben ist Rausch.“
Heimatlabel ist übrigens das mit Universal Music gegründete Label Moshbeat Records. Amen!

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


Booking:
North America: Jonathan Briks : United Talent
Rest of the World: Mike Malak : Wasserman

Press: Nick Dierl / Bradley Bledsoe - Orienteer

Management:
DenzelCurry@lowereastcoast.com

MËSTIZA is a Spanish DJ and producer duo, known for blending electronic music with traditional Spanish cultural roots, especially flamenco. Their signature style fuses afro house, deep house, and tech rhythms with flamenco claps, guitars, and vocals, creating a unique and visually striking experience. They have performed on international stages and at the most important festivals. With their powerful image and artistic concept, MËSTIZA stands out as one of the most innovative acts in today’s European electronic scene. 

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MËSTIZA es un dúo español de DJs y productoras, conocido por fusionar música electrónica con raíces culturales españolas, especialmente el flamenco. Su estilo único mezcla ritmos afro house, deep house y tech con palmas, guitarras y voces tradicionales, creando una propuesta vanguardista y muy visual. Han actuado en escenarios internacionales y en los festivales más importantes. Su imagen poderosa y concepto artístico hacen de MËSTIZA una de las propuestas más innovadoras de la electrónica europea actual.

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