✺ Bookings / MGMT: zigmon@stoneseedmusic.com
✺ Find me on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3C2IqSo

✺ Stone Seed
✺ SixthSense Australia
✺ Digital Structures
✺ Recovery Collective
✺ Open Records

✺ Bio ✺

Tom Baker stands at the crossroads of growling psychedelic techno and intricate melodic storytelling. His productions are built with precision and depth, delivering sonic journeys that carry his unmistakable signature.

As a core artist with Stone Seed and frequent collaborator with Digital Structures, Baker has earned recognition as both a producer and remixer, working alongside names such as Perfect Stranger, Electrypnose, Quivver, and Ryanosaurus.

His music has resonated across the world’s most celebrated stages, from Fusion Festival’s Turmbühne (Germany) and Boom’s Alchemy Circle (Portugal) to Ozora’s Pumpui (Hungary) and club institutions including Sisyphos and Renate in Berlin, while remaining a consistent force within the Australian festival circuit. Whether under festival skies or inside revered club walls, Baker’s performances are a masterclass in weaving hypnotic energy with raw power.

Trip :: NRBK :: NewRhythmic :: EarToGround :: Room Trax :: Casanova Bar

Worldwide: maithai@firstfrequency.nl
Spain: alba@lannaclub.es
SA: janna@allianceartists.com.br

📍Berlin

GET YOUR FISHER MERCH !! 
Https://www.followthefishtv.com

MGMT:
Brett Fischer
brett@ayita.com

MARKETING:
Shayan Fakhimi
Shayan@ayita.com

N+S America Bookings:
CChapman@paradigmagency.com

AUS+NZ Bookings:
stuart@posterchild.com.au

EU Bookings:
daveb@codaagency.com

At Thick As Thieves, we scour the globe for the most exciting underground artists to bring you the freshest tour in roster in Australia. We're dedicated to raising the vibration in everything we do.

BOOKINGS/CONTACT: andrew@morningafteragency.com.au

COOKie (Andrew Cook) has been obsessed with electronic music since the age of 18. After being inspired by what he saw others behind the decks doing he began to teach him self to mix records immediately Inspired by artists such as John Digweed, Maetrik, Citizen Kain, Boris Brejcha, Richie Hawtin and Gareth Whitehead, he continued to develop his style delving into anything between , Techno, House and Minimal.

Over the next few years COOKie would hone his skills to a level that would see him play some of the best clubs in Melbourne. Some of these include Lounge, Brown Alley, Miss Libertine, Bimbos, Killing Time, Circus, The Railway, My Aeon, Revolver and New Guernica. With seamless mixing, great track selection and an energy in his sets that keeps everyone fixated to the groove, COOKie’s skill and passion for the music really show out in his sets, with a thick, driving, rolling sound, high energy and a dash of funk, to always keep the punter moving.

COOKie has also recently played some of Melbourne’s outdoor parties and festivals, including Chi Wow Wah Town, Forgotten Kingdom and Local Produce. In April 2015 he was invited and flown over to play multiple sets at Afrikaburn festival in South Africa, the highlight of his DJ journey so far. In 2016 COOKie was again invited back to Afrikaburn Festival for a second year running after excelling with some outstanding sets the year before.

At he beginning of 2016 COOKie has launched his own Events and Touring Company called Morning After. That has seen tours and shows involving Citizen Kain (France), Gareth Whitehead (UK), Roberto Capuano (Italy), Silicone Soul (UK), Marco Bailey (Belgium), Edu Imbernon (Spain), Matt Sassari (France), Loco and Jam (Ireland) and Alberto Ruiz (Spain), collaborating with some of Melbourne’s finest crews and hosting some of Melbourne’s best local talent. Morning After have some more International guests lined up for the end of 2017 with 2018 shaping up to be another huge step forward for Morning After as they look to cement a consistent place in the Melbourne scene. 



Some of the artists COOKie has supported include

-       Gabe
-       Marcello VOR
-       BeSvendsen
-       MadMotorMiquel
-       Citizen Kain
-	Gareth Whitehead
-	Silicone Soul
-	Roberto Capuano
-	Marco Bailey
-	Edu Imbernon
-	Matt Sassari
-	Loco and Jam

Follow COOKie on Soundcloud and Facebook.

SoundCloud – soundcloud.com/cookie-melbourne

Facebook - facebook.com/djcookiemelbourne

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


Thick As Thieves presents   
        Boogs Podcast  

Available on Thick As Thieves Soundcloud
Here is the link

http://soundcloud.com/thickasthieves-1

Lovebirds, the dynamic duo of Sebastian Doering and Daniel Klein, have been shaping the dance music scene since their debut in the vibrant 90s. Their influence spans diverse projects, from Kneedeep to Kiez Kids, leading to their current musical endeavor - Lovebirds. Their journey has resulted in a repertoire of timeless classics.

Their 2011 masterpiece, a collaboration with Stee Downes titled "Want You In My Soul," stands as a testament to their extraordinary talent. This hit single resonates so deeply with listeners that it has become an anthem, with weekend spins across the globe since its release.

The unique LOVEBIRDS' sound is steeped in soul and depth, eliciting rich emotions. Their reach is expansive, garnering over 60 million Spotify streams, despite not targeting the mainstream audience.

Trading Hamburg for Berlin in 2015, they forged numerous new relationships, broadening their sound to a more diverse, live interpretation of dance music. Their foundation in the black music of the 70s and 80s is evident in their diligent efforts to transpose the depth of that era into contemporary soundscapes. Their studio, a treasure trove of coveted analog production gear, mirrors a museum.

Renowned for their B2B DJ sets that bridge diverse genres and eras with pure joy, LOVEBIRDS prioritize crowd connection, guiding listeners on a captivating journey through a spectrum of sound - from house and disco to Italo, new wave, yacht rock, and 80s pop, and everything in between.
Their 2011 masterpiece, a collaboration with Stee Downes titled "Want You In My Soul," stands as a testament to their extraordinary talent. This hit single has never stopped creating unforgettable moments on dancefloors across the globe eversince.

The unique LOVEBIRDS' sound is steeped in soul and depth, eliciting rich emotions. Their reach is expansive, garnering over 60 million Spotify streams, despite not targeting the mainstream audience.

Trading Hamburg for Berlin in 2015, they forged numerous new relationships, broadening their sound to a more diverse, live interpretation of dance music. Their foundation in the black music of the 70s and 80s is evident in their diligent efforts to transpose the depth of that era into contemporary soundscapes. Their studio, a treasure trove of coveted analog production gear, mirrors a museum.

Renowned for their B2B DJ sets that bridge diverse genres and eras with pure joy, LOVEBIRDS prioritize crowd connection, guiding listeners on a captivating journey through a spectrum of sound - from house and disco to Italo, new wave, yacht rock, and 80s pop, and everything in between.
bookings: charlie@circuit.tours
australia & NZ: james@watartists.com

i dont use the messenger here

Nick Done (DoneRight) is following