🇩🇪 LARS_ENQVIST – Techno DJ & Event Host (AFFJANG_DELUXE)

Geboren in Haan (NRW) mit schwedischen Wurzeln, fand LARS_ENQVIST über amerikanischen und deutschen Hip-Hop 2008 seinen Weg zur elektronischen Musik. In einem Club entdeckte er damals seine Leidenschaft für Minimal Techno – und das Shufflen auf der Tanzfläche war nur der Anfang.

Schnell wollte er mehr: Eigene DJ-Software, Mixer, endlose Nächte mit Freunden – und schließlich sein erster Club-Gig 2014 im legendären Rheingold Düsseldorf. Es folgten zahlreiche Auftritte in der Region, bei denen er sich mit seiner treibenden, tanzbaren Techno-Selection einen Namen machte. 2015 gründete er seine eigene Veranstaltungsreihe AFFJANG_DELUXE, mit der er den Underground-Sound seiner Heimatregion prägt.

Seine Highlights: Auftritte bei Affenkäfig – energiegeladen, emotional und pur.
Heute steht LARS_ENQVIST für Peak-Time Melodic Techno, der Körper und Seele gleichermaßen bewegt – Musik, die verbindet und Emotionen auf den Dancefloor bringt.

📍 Köln / Deutschland
📧 Booking: affjang.techno@freenet.de
🔗 Instagram: @lars_enqvist
🔗 Facebook: LARS_ENQVIST
🎧 SoundCloud: LARS_ENQVIST


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🇬🇧 LARS_ENQVIST – Techno DJ & Event Host (AFFJANG_DELUXE)

Born in Haan (NRW) with Swedish roots, LARS_ENQVIST discovered electronic music in 2008 after years of listening to US and German hip-hop. His first contact with Minimal Techno sparked a deep passion – both for the music and for dancing to it.

Soon after, he dove into DJ software and hardware, mixing tirelessly until he played his first club show in 2014 at the iconic Rheingold Düsseldorf. More gigs followed, and his energetic, groove-driven sets quickly gained attention. In 2015, he launched his own event series AFFJANG_DELUXE, shaping the local underground scene with powerful techno nights.

Highlights include performances at Affenkäfig, where his emotional and dynamic sets left lasting impressions.
Today, LARS_ENQVIST represents Peak-Time Melodic Techno – music that moves the body and touches the soul.

📍 Cologne / Germany
📧 Booking: affjang.techno@freenet.de
🔗 Instagram: @lars_enqvist
🔗 Facebook: LARS_ENQVIST
🎧 SoundCloud: LARS_ENQVIST


Info & Booking; djianmart1994@gmail.com

Deejay and producer borned on january 1994 Barcelona.

He has shared line up with Jus Deelax, FiveAm, Naylo, Reecey Boy, Sthepen Advance, Daniel Aguayo, Hector Engli, Saul Espada, Ferran Aguado and many more

He started his world tour in 2014 and He has played at 

Germany
The Big Bounce Festival(Munich)

He also played at  CLUBS in Spain: Atlantida, Carpas Chik, Marithe, Otto Zutz, Long Play

His tracks are released in some of the best LABELS of the world :
Punch Underground
Drugstore Records
Hungry Koala Records
Flat Belly Recordings
Hambur aufnahmen
Mash Minimal
Turning Wheel Records
Massive duck Records
DC10 Records, etc


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


For over a decade Salvatore Polizzi has an impact on the national Minimal Techno scene at which his favoured productions are released on such labels like Bosphorus Underground , Kittball, italo Business,DC10 , Flat Belly Rec.
Beside Djing with Dandi & Ugo , Superflu , Kaiserdisco , Doubkore, Min&Mal , Robert Babic or Martin Eyerer at such clubs and events like Ruhr In Love, the Warehouse, Elektroküche, Rheingold or the Butan Club, he ran his own club the legendary Overload Club quite successfully in Solingen. Residency @ Übertrieben Events Düsseldorf  & Cologne Germany !!!



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