Resident DJ at Kater, Berlin, Germany 
Booking: julia@katerclub.de
Indie Dance, Tech House, Deep Tech 
Upcoming Gigs: 
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2025

05.12. Beate Uwe, Berlin
06.12. Woodland Collective, Hildesheim
12.12. A Techno Ballet Odyssey, Berlin
20.12. TBO, Frankfurt am Main
21.12. Hangaren, Copenhagen, DK
26.12. Plan B, Malmö, SE
27.12. Kater b2b Foolik, Berlin 
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2026

02.01. Ritter Butzke, Berlin
04.01. tba 
10.01. Disco Zwei, Mannheim
16.01. Station Endlos b2b Foolik, Halle 
23.01. Folklor, Lausanne, CH
31.01. Elipamanoke, Leipzig 

06.02. Kapstadt, SA
27.02. TBO, Bootshaus, Köln
28.02. TBO, Bootshaus, Köln
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Past: 

2025

08.11. Pont Rouge, Monthey, CH
14.11. Odonien, Köln
21.11. Kowalski, Stuttgart
22.11. Kauz, Zürich, CH
29.11. Pracht, Frankfurt am Main

03.10. Renate b2b Foolik, Berlin
11.10. Golden Gate, Berlin
24.10. Bahnwärter Thiel, München
25.10. Südpol, Hamburg
31.10. Kater, Berlin

06.09. Mystic Creatures Festival, PL
20.09. Rooftop, Lisbon, PT
27.09. Distilery, Leipzig 

01.08. Praerie Festival b2b Foolik
02.08. Liane Festival, Saurach
03.08. Garbicz Festival, PL
06.08. Summer Contrast Festival, PL
08.08. Pangea Festival, Ribnitz Damgarten
09.08. 3000Grad Festival
16.08. Bucht der Träumer* Festival
22.08. Moyn Festival b2b Foolik
23.08. Kater Geburtstag b2b Foolik, Berlin
29.08. Karrusel Festival, Copenhagen, DK
30.08. Renate, Berlin

03.07. Unterholz Festival, Pforzheim
06.07. Huta, Wroclaw, PL
11.07. Komod Festival, Weilheim
12.07. Odonien, Köln
19.07. Habitat Festival b2b Foolik, Hamburg
25.07. Private, Basel, CH 
27.07. Mitte Soundbar, Nürnberg
31.07. Klangtherapie Festival 

05.06. Skalar Festival, Frankfurt Oder
08.06. Kater, Berlin
14.06. Candys, München
28.06. Fusion Festival b2b Sheila, Lärz

03.05. Kater, Berlin - ODD Mailand Showcase
07.05. Beate Uwe b2b Foolik, Berlin  
11.05. Sommerauftakt b2b Foolik, Secret
17.05. Brooklyn Bridge Hotel, NYC, US
23.05. Tba b2b Foolik, Lisbon
24.05. U-Club, Wuppertal
31.05. Bosburcht Festival b2b Sheila, NL

05.04. Sisyphos, Berlin
19.04. Bahnwärter Thiel, München
20.04. N8lounge, Bonn
21.04. Südpol, Hamburg
26.04. Fridas Pier, Stuttgart

07.03. Klunkerkranich, Berlin 
08.03. Carnivale, Sopot, PL
15.03. Kater Blau, Berlin
22.03. Oi-Qaragai ski resort, Kasachstan, KAZ 
29.03. Block8, Göteborg, SE

06.01. Sisyphos, Berlin 
11.01. Kater Blau, Berlin
25.01. M.N.Roy, Mexico City, MX
02.02. Mazunte b2b Foolik, MX

2024

06.12. Club Hypnoza, Katowice, PL
07.12. 3000°, Lärz
15.12. Südpol, Hamburg
21.12. Children of Panacea, Zürich, CH
28.12. Tranzit, Hamburg
31.12. Festsaal Kreuzberg b2b Foolik, Berlin 

01.11. Module, Copenhagen, DK
09.11. Pocket`s Rockets & Fool And The Gang, Kater Blau, Berlin
16.11. Drip Club, Singapore, SG
29.11. Helios 37, Köln
30.11. Private, Hamburg

04.10. Golden Gate, Berlin 
12.10. Studio 92, London, UK 
18.10. Alte Mälzerei, Regensburg 
20.10. Kater Blau, Berlin 
26.10. Pracht, Frankfurt am Main 
30.10. Station Endlos, Halle 
31.10. Lieberscholli, München 

07.09. Mystic Creatures Festival, PL
14.09. Betriebsfeier Hoppetosse, Berlin
22.09. Tba, Tba
27.09. Kater Blau, Berlin
28.09. Südpol, Hamburg

02.08. Prärie Festival, Drebkau
04.08. Garbicz Festival b2b Foolik, Garbicz, PL
10.08. SMS Festival
11.08. Wilde Möhre Festival b2b Foolik, Drebkau
16.08. Fridas Pier, Stuttgart
24.08. Kater Blau, Berlin
25.08. Lunapark, Warsaw,PL
29.08. Renate, Berlin
31.08. Sisyphos, Berlin

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Playing a DJ set is like preparing pasta sauce: First you need to catch all the ingredients, then prepare everything and have a taste of every single one here and there. Put it all together and slowly cook it up, let it boil, reduce the heat a lil, keep it sizzling and cook it up again. Repeat. 

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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


booking & contact: 
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Coming up: 

25.01. - Beate Barfuß / Berlin
31.07 - Appletree Garden Festival 

Previous:

27.03. - Alter Ego / Amsterdam 
16.04. - Salon zur wilden Renate / Berlin
04.05. - Jack Who / Cologne 
07.05. - Sisyphos / Berlin
22.05. - Sa Terza Metari Festival / Berlin
19.06. - Meeresrausch Festival
30.06. - ФУЗИОН / Lärz
09.07. - Bonanza Festival / Innsbruck  
16.07. - Katzensprung Festival / Köln
17.07. - Mit-Dir-Festival / Berlin
06.08. - Garbicz Festival / Sulęcin
10.09. - Jackie O / Berlin
16.09. - Ischia / Italy
01.10. - Croatia
08.10. - Ritter Butzke / Berlin
04.11. - Nachtigall / Köln
05.11. - Rummels Bucht / Berlin
11.11. - Kater Blau / Berlin
25.11. - Bertrams / Berlin
03.12. - SilQ / Düsseldorf
31.12. - Tulum / Mexico
03.02. - Mensch Meier / Berlin
17.02. -  Rummelsbucht / Berlin
24.02. - Ritter Butzke / Berlin
18.03. - Feines Tier Rudel / Leipzig
24.03. - Wilde Renate / Berlin
09.04. - Kater Blau / Berlin
13.04. - Werk / Vienna
22.04. - Rummels Bucht / Berlin
30.04. - Freudentaumel / Berlin
06.05. - Kater Blau / Berlin
28.05. - Palais Palett  / Dresden
15.07. - Katzensprung Festival / Köln
12.08. - Jackie O / Berlin
20.08. - Ms Dockville / Hamburg
26.08. - Jackie O / Berlin
20.10. - Kater Blau / Berlin
22.10. - Klunkerkranich / Berlin
04.11. -  BEATO / Lissabon 
13.01. - Sputnik Bar / Tel Aviv
28.01. - Beate Uwe / Berlin
18.03. - Bucht / Berlin
24.03. - Farbfernseher / Berlin
20.04. - Urban Spree / Berlin
27.04. - Odonien / Köln
28.04. - Waldschänke Dornheim / Würzburg 
24.05. - Klunkerkranich / Berlin
26.05. - Privé
09.06. - Salon 2 / München
16.06. - Paradies1 / Regensburg
28.07. - Schwedlersee / Frankfurt
18.08. - Romantica / Stuttgart
09.09. - Kater Blau / Berlin
05.10. - Slowrider / Rostock
19.10. - tba. / Friedrichshafen
28.10. - Beate Uwe / Berlin
31.10. - Nachtigall / Köln
16.11. - Zwei Zimmer Küche Bar / Halle
30.11. - JVB / Berlin
08.12. - Mensch Meier / Berlin
11.01. - Waldschenke / Würzburg
02.02. - Mensch Meier / Berlin
24.02. - Voll Schön / Berlin
05.04. - Polygon / Berlin
12.04. - Festsaal Kreuzberg / Berlin
27.04. - Odonien / Cologne
19.05. - Sisyphos / Berlin
29.05. - Ketoga / Hannover
07.06. - Kater Blau / Berlin
28.06. - Mandala Festival / Netherlands
13.07. - Mensch Meier / Berlin
27.07. - Schwedlersee / Frankfurt
16.08. - Bucht der Träumer / Germany
18.08. - Klunkerkranich / Berlin
31.08. - Trento / Italy
14.09. - Mensch Meier / Berlin
12.10. - Seekult Festival / Friedrichshafen
26.10. - Mensch Meier / Berlin
31.10. - Something Slow / Berlin
08.11. - Odonien / Cologne
12.12. - Wonderfruit Festival / Thailand
31.12. - San Juan del Sur / Nicaragua
31.01. - Fiese Remise / Berlin
29.02. - Bucht des Vertrauens
16.07 - Izmir / Turkey
01.09 - Burning Man / Black Rock City
03.12 - Beate Uwe / Berlin
26.03 - Something Slow / Berlin
06.10 - Ritter Butzke / Berlin
10.02 - Studio 1111 / Berlin
21.07 - gART.n Berlin
08.12 - Beate Uwe Berlin
22.03. - Pratersauna / Vienna
04.04. - Fi / Cologne

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