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Management: Sean Holbrook - sean@ayita.com

Bookings: 
- North America, South America, Canada: Emma@liaisonartists.com
- Rest of World: kal.jhugroo@caa.com

Releases & Forthcoming on - 

Consequence Of Society Recordings
Pryda Presents
Last Night On Earth 
Bedrock Records
Knee Deep In Sound
Truesoul
Circus Recordings
Warung Recordings
Yoshi Toshi
Noir
Suara
Selador
Defected
DFTD
Extended Play
Underground Audio
Relux Underground
Blue Dye
Nordic Trax

Bookings/Demos/Info:
info@roll-in-groove.co.uk

International DJ, Producer as Markus Schulz and Dakota, In Search of Sunrise resident, host of Global DJ Broadcast and Destinations, and owner of Coldharbour Recordings.

Close Proximity is a fresh and exciting DJ collaboration between two passionate producers, Ollie Thompson & Tristan Hinchliffe. both from Norfolk, UK.

The pairings mutual love for EDM took hold over the past 12months inspired by the likes of Showtek, Tiesto, W&W and many more. Both producers studied at the Access To Music Schools in Norwich where they have been able to refine their production & engineering skills. 

Both have emerged into the world of EDM after playing various Hard Dance events across the UK, Both secured residencies for the legendary Bangers N Mashed events with bookings for Pams House, Smiley Culture, Reunion and more.

As solo artists in the Hard dance world, Tracks have been released on the likes of Tidy, Riot!, Transfixtion, Black Out Recordings, Trepidation Records, Smiley Culture, CDR Hard and D records. The pair have been great friends throughout their previous careers and have now decided to join forces and concentrate fulltime on Close Proximity.



Bookings and remix opportunities - closeproximitymusic@gmail.com

High-Tech Minimal
be serious!

In 2024, the single "Gravity" went gold in Mexico.

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


Global curators of experiences that represent the alternative…

Founded by electric minds label boss and off-location event pioneer Dolan Bergin alongside former Head of Programming for London clubbing institution The End, Ajay Jayaram, as The Hydra the duo have become synonymous with the dynamic yet sometimes capricious electronic music scene in London.

The early years saw their reputation build due to an ability to locate and transform obscure settings into fully functioning event spaces: dilapidated warehouses, loft spaces, theatres, pool halls, a catholic church, a former department store, a capsule on the London Eye, a decommissioned WWII Naval Frigate and even a private Island off the English coast – all played a part in The Hydra’s formative years, with each party capturing the nomadic spirit of adventure, severely lacking across the capital.

It was their groundbreaking annual event series, which lent their work a global bias, taking in London’s finest venues (fabric, Ministry of Sound, Corsica Studios, Village Underground…..) with a yearly program that covered House, Techno, Bass, Experimental and everything in between. You can observe the knock on effect of that 5-year adventure by exploring today’s musical landscape in the capital; the hallmarks that underpinned each season – diversity, high production values, future stars – have been adopted by their contemporary peers.

The Hydra’s ethos is to keep evolving, and their post-series activity has seen them indulge their love of the alternative with forays at world-reknowned cultural institution The Barbican, alongside a consultancy role with festival group Broadwick Live, that has seen them spearhead the organisation’s latest venture – a multi-purpose events space on the site of a former printing factory, Printworks London.

Having been a intrinsic part of its development since inception in early 2017, The Hydra form an integral and ongoing part of the core team behind Printworks and with their own long-term production partners Sound Services and Rebel Overlay now also on board, the venue’s reputation as a world-beating space for electronic music seems assured.

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Booking/Management Control: Traci@MahoganiMusic.com  Flo@MahoganiMusic.com

Techno producer and Kashla Records founder, Redge, treads the middle ground between peak-time, melodic and deep techno, pulling inspiration from all parts of the musical spectrum.

Since releasing his first track in 2016, following more than a decade of DJ experience, he continues to dedicate himself to exploring and refining his own brand of techno. Building a name for himself in the UK playing raves, clubs and open air festivals including Illusive, Tearout and No Man’s Land, he recently moved to Spain to try and push his music to the next level. 

2023 saw the launch of his own label, Kashla Records, focusing on ’Techno with Groove’, which will act as a platform for both his own music and that of producers who share the same vision. At the time of writing, Redge and Kashla Records have over a year’s worth of music primed and ready for release. 

So stay connected to see what comes next.

More info: www.nilsfrahm.com

Management: 
felix(at)agentur-grimm(dot)com


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