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2026
3101 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Virginia
1601 NAR, Utrecht w/ Davide d'Amico
0901 Stuk, Leuven w/ Robert Bergman 🇧🇪
0101 Horst Club, Vilvoorde w/ Peach 🇧🇪

2025
1212 Sissi's, Amsterdam
2811 De Kelder, Haarlem
0111 NAR, Utrecht
2410 Into The Woods, Amsterdam w/ Budino
1810 Doka, Amsterdam w/ I-F
0410 Martine Au Bruit, Lille 🇫🇷
0310 Amigo, Gent w/ San Soda 🇧🇪
2309 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Orpheu TW
3008 Het Festival, Utrecht w/ Sound Metaphors
2208 Doka, Amsterdam w/ Vasco
0908 Paradigm Festival, Groningen w/ Ajuma
1207 Funki Bizniz, Eindhoven
0607 OOST, Groningen
0507 Thuishaven, Amsterdam w/ Suze Ijó
2706 NAR, Utrecht
2106 Od’Us Festival, Dentergem 🇧🇪
0806 De Zon Festival, Amsterdam
2905 Intergalactic FM Festival, The Hague
1105 NAR, Utrecht w/ MCDE
1005 B-Kant Haven, The Hague
0905 Le Romandie, Lausanne 🇨🇭
1904 Shelter, Amsterdam
0504 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Mendel
1503 NAR, Utrecht w/ DTM Funk
1502 Wibar, Leiden
0202 Arca, Milan 🇮🇹
3101 NAR, Utrecht
2401 Multipla, Amsterdam
0201 Mareh Festival, Vila Do Arpoador 🇧🇷

2024
2112 Open Ground, Wuppertal 🇩🇪
2012 Salon Des Amateurs, Dusseldorf 🇩🇪
1412 NAR, Utrecht
1312 Chinastraat, Gent 🇧🇪
3011 Thuishaven, Amsterdam w/ Kléo
2311 Shelter, Amsterdam
1511 Capital, Antwerp 🇧🇪
0911 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Yu Su
1210 Phono Lake, Amsterdam
2809 Goldener Reiter, Munich 🇩🇪
2009 NAR, Utrecht
1409 Soulful Sessions Outdoor, Mechelen 🇧🇪 
1309 Multipla, Amsterdam w/ Ajuma
0709 Doka, Amsterdam w/ John Gómez
0609 Perron, Rotterdam w/ Robert Hood
2408 OOST, Groningen
1708 DIA! DIA! DIA! Festival, St. Jean De Luz 🇫🇷
0308 Phono Lake, Amsterdam
1607 PAAK, Nijmegen
1307 Wildeburg Festival, Kraggenburg 
0507 Multipla, Amsterdam
2906 NAR, Utrecht
0106 Bonobo, Tokyo 🇯🇵
3105 Mitsuki, Tokyo 🇯🇵
2505 Bar Inc, Osaka 🇯🇵
1105 Intergalactic FM Festival, The Hague
0905 Horst Arts & Music Festival, Vilvoorde 🇧🇪
2504 Tresor, Berlin 🇩🇪
2004 Iboat, Bordeaux 🇫🇷 w/ Tako
3003 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
2203 Parotia, Amsterdam
2502 Ciranda, Amsterdam w/ Mendel
1702 Time Is The New Space, Rotterdam
1602 Club Malasaña, Madrid 🇪🇸
1002 Arkaoda, Berlin 🇩🇪
0202 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Ajuma
2601 NAR, Utrecht

2023
0212 BIT, Rotterdam
0411 Doka, Amsterdam
0610 Salon Des Amateurs, Dusseldorf 🇩🇪
2309 Blauwdruk, Nijmegen
1509 PIP, The Hague w/ Kléo
2608 Paradise, Vancouver w/ Dane 🇨🇦
1908 La Milagrosa, New York 🇺🇸 
1808 Public Records, New York 🇺🇸 
2907 Benelux Bar, Amsterdam
2907 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
0807 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Kléo
1606 Club Continental, Amsterdam
1905 Intergalactic FM Festival, The Hague
0505 NAR, Utrecht w/ Ajuma
2604 Lofi, Amsterdam w/ Mendel, Kléo, Hunee
2204 Iboat, Bordeaux 🇫🇷
0104 OOST, Groningen w/ Nosedrip
2502 Wibar, Leiden
1702 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ Nedda Sou
1102 Kaiku, Helsinki 🇫🇮
0101 Thuishaven, Amsterdam w/ Kamma & Masalo

2022
1012 Het Bos, Antwerp w/ DTM Funk 🇧🇪
2511 Herfstdrift, Nijmegen w/ Red Greg
1911 Charlie, Munich 🇩🇪
1811 Wilde Renate, Berlin 🇩🇪
1510 Club Soda, Barcelona 🇪🇸
0810 Ekko, Utrecht
0710 Iboat, Bordeaux w/ DJ Sotofett 🇫🇷
0309 Platforma Wolff, Bucharest 🇷🇴
3007 PIP, The Hague
2007 Paak, Nijmegen
1407 Funke, Ghent 🇧🇪
0907 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
1906 Thuishaven, Amsterdam w/ Charmaine
1706 Lovelee, Amsterdam
1106 Doka, Amsterdam w/ DJ D.Dee 
0306 Steurgarden, Rotterdam w/ Sekan
2805 Intergalactic FM Festival, The Hague
2105 Paradise Now, Dusseldorf 🇩🇪
1405 Charlie, Munich 🇩🇪
0705 Thuishaven, Amsterdam w/ Carlos Valdes
1604 Radio Radio, Amsterdam w/ DTM Funk
1504 Lovelee, Amsterdam w/ Heléna Star
2003 Thuishaven, Amsterdam w/ I-F, Kléo
1903 Lofi, Amsterdam w/ Sassy J, Hunee
0503 Wibar, Leiden

2019
2712 OOST, Groningen
0612 Bonnefooi, Brussels 🇧🇪
3011 Radio Radio, Amsterdam
2911 Griessmuehle, Berlin 🇩🇪
2311 Club 1999, Paris 🇫🇷
2211 Amigo, Gent 🇧🇪
1910 Dynamic Range, Amsterdam
2109 Iboat, Bordeaux w/ DJ Fett Burger
2508 Dekmantel Selectors Festival, Tisno 🇭🇷
2308 Barbarella's, Tisno w/ Palms Trax 🇭🇷
2007 Charlatan, Gent /w San Soda 🇧🇪
2007 Lose It In The City, Antwerp 🇧🇪
1307 Shelter, Amsterdam
0607 Dynamic Range, Amsterdam
2906 BAR, Rotterdam
0806 Drift Festival, Nijmegen
0706 Intergalactic FM Festival, The Hague
0106 Lab-1, Eindhoven w/ Identified Patient
0305 Claire, Amsterdam w/ DJ Fett Burger
2704 Cartel, Westerliefde, Amsterdam
1804 OOST, Groningen
0504 Tak, Stockholm 🇸🇪
0802 Canvas, Amsterdam
0402 Tresor, Berlin 🇩🇪
2501 Bonnefooi, Brussels 🇧🇪
0501 BAR, Rotterdam
0401 Griessmuehle, Berlin 🇩🇪

HATE promotes the best electronic, techno-oriented releases.

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Mix series, born in October 2016, includes works from artists who are involved in the development of our channel and provide the tone of HATE Collective for a long time. Past records from them you can find on our YouTube channel.

After only one year from its birth, HATE podcast series was mentioned by Telekom Electronic Beats as one of "10 Techno Podcasts Every Techno Head Should Know": http://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/10-techno-podcasts-every-techno-head-hear/
 
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Greek electronic visionary Echonomist represents the true definition of ‘artist’. His prolific output combined with his ability to experiment with a variety of styles and liberated approach, are essential components of his artistic nature. With years of experience already under his belt, Echonomist has gone through a leap in his development recently, with releases on Innervisions, Afterlife, TAU, and Kompakt, among others, establishing his production prowess. Working with such influential labels has not only boosted his profile but, more importantly, demonstrated that his musical ability has reached an impeccable standard, acknowledged by label heads like Dixon, Ame, Tale Of Us, Michael Mayer, and Adana Twins. Both on a solo tip and in collaborative projects Echonomist’s talent shines through and he’s primed for continued success at the very highest level...

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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