DIM MAK
DEAD! RECORDS
MINISTRY OF SOUND/TMRW


Management and touring:
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B O O K I N G S

WORLDWIDE
contact@madora-agency.de

ASIA
rory@submodifiedagency.com

AUSTRALIA
Sean.grouse@tmrw.com.au


Mat.Joe began as a project between Matthias and Johannes, two young men based in Berlin with a deep connection to music. Back in 2006, Rap, Breakdance and Skateboarding were the passions that kickstarted their friendship and this deep connection is reflected in their music. In 2008, they formed the producer team Twomanics and concentrated on authentic and credible hip hop productions for independent artists.
As of 2024, Matthias takes on his music career as an individual, carrying the legacy that Mat.Joe has built over the last decade. Over the years, Mat.Joe has developed their trademark sound of house beats paired with rhythmic soul and hip-hop elements. The result is deep and dancefloor-qualified, warm and rough. Inspiration is found everywhere between subway rides, late night showers and favorite bars - and new ideas are always on the way, evolving with the always-changing culture of dance music and growing with the artist.

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www.nick-curly.de

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


Owner & Founder: Fool Records
Remix or Bookings Contact: justin-gough@live.com

Labels: Fool / Crossworld / 808 / Cross-tech / DanceLab

Support from: Marco Carola, Saso Recyd, A++, Niro Lassano, Popof, & Simone Vitullo, Daniell C.

The grind of RAW house VIBES, filtered down basslines is the creation of a unique disco culture within. Everybody who understands this love-binding kind of music, has to live the urban movement behind it, the culture that brings people of all kinds together. Bolero was born in the dark alley ways of Suburban Sydney, soon to be based in the sunlight fields of Brisbane. His talent ooze's musical heritage & some might say, he is the magic behind it. Highly delighted and inspired by the time of late 80s and early 90s, when the movement, accompanied by young culture began, Bolero was finding the lower BPM-numbers of House & Disco were leading to more culture of experiences. The energy and feeling around the music is what makes the difference.
2014 is set to be a stellar year for the young talent, with new tracks soon to be released on Be One Records, 808 Recordings & the rise of his imprint 'FOOL Records'.


Promo & Q+A: justin-gough@live.com





For over two decades Groove Armada has been established as one of the planet's best loved and biggest selling dance acts. As comfortable on the big stages as they are in sweat soaked basements, the boys cross genres and styles with ease.

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General Manager: renee@galvanizemanagement.com


Can there be a sense of quality in a dance tune?
That's what Dousk is set to answer and has been exploring ever since.
Born in Athens, he completed his classical music studies in 2000
which comprised of classical piano, orchestration, jazz & electronic music 
production/engineering.
His influences are mostly of electronic origin, whether in the form of 
60's & 70's psychedelia & experimental electronic music, the late 70's 
disco, breakbeats, the 80's progressive rock/avant-garde scene and 
90's Detroit and Italo-techno.
As an avid tech enthusiast (ahem..nerd), he has created numerous 
compositions and contributions in computer games music & computer 
demos.
With 2 successful albums under his belt and a 3rd personal album 
on the way, having performed and toured in some of the best clubs in 
the world, Dousk is here to stay.
Embracing a variety of musical styles, with an emphasis on that sensation of quality,
be it Progressive House, Tech House or Techno, or 
virtually anything else under different aliases.
This has earned him a spot on the global dance scene and frequent 
appearances in dance music charts. Almost every world-renowned 
House/Techno DJ has played a Dousk track.
His music is featured in all sorts of places such as TV & Radio ads, 
the MTV Music Awards and hit TV-shows CSI, My name is Earl and Doctor Who.

Dousk on Twitter:
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Dousk on Facebook:
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