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Bookings - International/Rest of the World 
roman.trystram@caa.com

CAFEINA
YOUR CUP OF PARTY
#Cafeinabelgium

You’ll see Cafeína is your favourite party! Frequently we organise an amazing party with a clubby atmosphere and pretty people at different locations in Antwerp City, Ghent, Hasselt, Ostend, …

Our concept is based on beautiful people, good (deep) house music and perfect atmosphere. Several editions are our own productions, they are one of the biggest parties in Antwerp. Indeed: never seen before! Our dj’s will provide you from wicked tunes, colorful beats and sexy mixes.

Because renewals are important for us, we fill every edition with amazing and famous guest dj’s like: HOT SINCE 82, KÖLSCH, ROGER SANCHEZ, KONSTANTIN SIBOLD ,DENNIS FERRER, ANDREA OLIVA, KOLOMBO, FINNEBASSEN, DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE, NICK CURLY, LARSE, GREGOR SALTO, ROUL AND DOORS, DYRO, DANNIC, YVES-V, FUNKERMAN, CAZZETTE, SHARAM JEY, AN21, MAX VANGELI, RAMON TAPIA, COMPUPHONIC, Roma, Pat Krimson, Regi, Yves Deruyter, Marko De La Rocca, Neon, Creamminals, Dave Kane, Alec, Nico Morano, Dave Lambert, Yamo, Cemode, Don Cabron, Don Santos, Wess Vall, Maxim Lany, Elektrokid, Mike S, Joeri, Jean Delaru, Stijn, Audioboulevard, Phill Da Cunha, Disco Dasco, Seelen, 2Dirty, Mike B, Twins, Mr. Grammy, Rupert, Regi, Rafi Khan, Moeinza, Shéhérazade, Tofke, DJ Licious, Delafino, Bjorn Migdalski, Elenore, Lisa Nova, Nebahat Petrovci, Greg S, Deedz, Youri Parker, A-Tom-X, Ricardo, Moeinza, Beauhause, Ravenous, Vince Nova, Quincy...

We always try to transform our locations with surprises, innovations and refreshing beats. And we have of course an attractive and loyal crowd!

We started our concept in 2006 in an Antwerp downtown basement ‘Pier 19’, just for our friends. Afterwards we moved to Ramada Plaza Hotel with our crew and members. This was a great decision because our addicts doubled! We achieved more loyal partypeople! But also here the crowd was fantastic and still expanding.

So finally we decide to start up like a real party concept with entrance and now we have the possibility to give a marvellous party at magnificent and nice locations like: Bocadero, Waagnatie, La Rocca, Versuz, La Riva, Industria, Stuurboord, Culture Club,.... We always try to create an amazing atmosphere on each location!

Since 2008 we are proud to host a stage at world’s best festival: Tomorrowland! Together with our Belgian artists we had the opportunity to welcome international artists like Roger Sanchez, Gregor Salto, Andrea Oliva, Dannic, Dyro, Funkerman, AN21, Max Vangelli, Cazzette… In 2013 we travelled along with Dj Roma to TomorrowWorld (Atlanta) to represent Cafeína overseas for the first edition of TomorrowWorld!

Bookings worldwide:
marco@futurism.agency
Management:
management@adriatique.ch

MARKO DE LA ROCCA  

For the past 19 years MARKO has been the resident DJ for the legendary “La Rocca on Sunday “nights, a quite remarkable achievement.
He’s been called a specialist but everyone agrees: this guy’s got real talent and is a true professional. For years his name has appeared in the top 10 of the Best Belgian DJ’s, and in 2004 he was also voted Best Belgian Progressive DJ . 
In 2010, he takes part of the Radio FG’s World Top DJ’s Contest and reached the position 21 of the ranking.

BIOGRAPHY: 
Marko’s career begins in the late eighties, his reputation grows and he soon becomes established as an important figure in the vibrant Belgian music scene. 
The legendary Belgian club “La Rocca” ask him to take-over their important Sunday night slot in 1992. 
There are many world-class guest DJ’s that have appeared alongside Marko on these Sunday nights, such as : Michel De Hey, Blake Baxter, Andre Nalin, Trevor Rockcliffe, Sander Kleinenberg, David Morales, Oliver Moldan, Marcello, David Guetta, Felix Da Housecat, Sasha, Criss Source, 16 Bit lolitas, Dave Seaman, Dr Kucho, Tiestö and many more – besides all the top DJ’s from the Belgian scene . 

With his obviously natural ability to DJ, Marko became greatly respected as a DJ by professionals. 
Residencies at top clubs such as “At The Villa“(94-96) and “The Fuse“(96-97), Tour & Taxi in Brussels (1998-2000) made Marko a ‘ major player ‘ in Belgium’s clubbing scene. Along the way he’s DJ’d at many massive events such as I Love Techno, Impulz, Extrema, besides playing regularly at the major Belgian Clubs (Versuz, Café d'Anvers, Extrême,…).
  
Since 2000 he’s played gigs all over the European continent including  the Folies Pigalles, Red Light, the 287 and Montana Club in France; the very first Creamfields on the Baltic coast and SQ Klub in Poland; Pacha and K5 in Ibiza; Le Petit Prince and Nature One (Gremany); the Solar Festival, Chemistry and the Heineken Dance Parade in The Netherlands, Carl Cox at Warsaw (Poland 2002).
Back in Belgium, since 2001, Marko has often featured in important line-ups at gigs such as the House Torhout, the Dance-a-Delic festival, 10 Days Off, the huge City Parade (more than 180,000 dance fanatics). 
He headlined the first White Sensation event at Antwerp in April 2005 with Armin Van Büren and Junior Jack; but also the Tomorrowland Festival in 2006 and on the main stage in 2007 ! During 2009, Marko have a new residency at Noxx Club in Antwerp, where he was honoured to share the turntables with Faithless, John Digweed, Sasha and Felix Da Housecat right after their gigs.
    
In terms of releases, Marko has put together many compilations (La Rocca) and releases on diverse labels for labels such as: NEWS, Mackenzie, Bonzai,Tripomatic , Enterprise Records and Massive Drive Recordings. 
He worked with Pole Folder on several remixes including “Inner Turmoil“(released by Bedrock Records). In 2008, he composed “Cult of Sunday” with Elektrokid then; a following tune appears on Banshee Worx in 2009 trough a stupendous association with Laurent Veronnez (Airwave): “Blues Diamond”. 
In 2011, he created “Balkan Brothers” with Barry Fore on Versuz Essentials, a project with a mainroom house smasher : “Hypnotika Mandolina”.

Website    : http://www.djmarko.net   
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/Marko de la Rocca
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Tale Of Us are Berlin-based musical partnership Karm and Matteo who are currently re-writing the rulebook for deeply moving, emotional electronic music.

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


Meet Christophe, the pastry chef-turned-house DJ, also known as Cemode. He's not just mixing beats; he's blending flavors and melodies.. Classic house rule both the dance floor and the studio, But he also possesses a talent for delving into deeper, melodic, and indie sounds.

A true artisan of his craft, Cemode has taken his exquisite taste to every major club and festival in Belgium and beyond. From the iconic Illusion club of the past to the pulsating energy of Tomorrowland today, he's been there for it all. And let's not forget the sweet cherry on top of his musical journey, his vinyl-only concept 12 Inch Lovers

Just like a well-aged wine, Cemode's heritage propels him boldly into the future. You can catch him at Tomorrowland, Extrema, 12 Inch Lovers, Thé Dansant, Cafeìna, Secret Garden, Studio Ibiza, and many more! 🍰🎶💃


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