German Schranz Dj based in Cologne

Clubs i played:


Elektroküche - Köln
Borderline Club -Basel 
Mark - Salzburg
Sakog - Salzburg
Kulturzentrum Faust - Hannover
Tiefgang - Hannover
Fusion Club - Münster
Butan - Wuppertal 
Club Z - Köln
Klub Domhof - Köln
MS CONNEXION COMPLEX - Mannheim
7er Club - Mannheim
Bellini Club Mainz
H14 - Aachen
Hans Bunte - Freiburg 
Crash Club - Freiburg
Helios37 (Blackbox) - Köln
Mikroport (Tunnel/Bunker) - Krefeld
Trafic (Main/2nd) - Köln
Hard Basement  - Düsseldorf
Kulturschlachthof - Düsseldorf
Bollwerk - Köln
Stahlwerk - Düsseldorf
Studio56 - Koblenz
TheStorage - Köln

Audiodrama – Schranz from Cologne
Born in 1980 near Cologne, Audiodrama (aka David Wieland) is a long-standing force in the German Schranz scene. Shaped by the raw spirit of the mid-90s rave movement, his journey began in 1995 at Nature One – a defining moment that sparked a lifelong obsession with relentless grooves, distorted kicks and uncompromising energy.
Throughout the late 90s, Audiodrama became deeply rooted in the underground, spending countless nights in iconic clubs such as Poison Club, Tor 3, Palazzo, Stammheim and U60311. Absorbing the intensity of those floors and the brutal sound aesthetics of the era, stepping behind the decks became the natural next step.
In 2005, he launched his DJ career with his own setup and quickly gained momentum. A successful participation in the DJ Contest at Butan Club Wuppertal marked an important step forward and led to his first bookings and club appearances, laying the foundation for his ongoing presence on the scene.
After a creative hiatus between 2007 and 2016, Audiodrama returned stronger, sharper and more focused than ever. Since then, he has performed at renowned venues and events including Mikroport Krefeld, Hans Bunte Freiburg, Fusion Club Münster, MS Connexion Complex Mannheim, Druckbetrieb Schranz, Bellini Club Mainz and became a regular at the legendary Elektroküche Cologne.
Further standout appearances include Harter Modus at 7er Club Mannheim, AUSNAHMEZUSTAND at Trafic Cologne and Hart in den Herbst at MS Connexion Mannheim.
A personal milestone followed in 2019, when Audiodrama finally played Elektroküche Cologne after 13 years of anticipation. This emotionally charged set marked a defining chapter in his career and firmly cemented his connection to one of Germany’s most influential techno institutions.
International recognition came in 2018 with his debut outside Germany at Borderline Club Basel, underlining his ability to move crowds beyond national borders.
Today, Audiodrama represents pure, high-pressure Schranz – raw, aggressive and uncompromising. His sets deliver relentless drive, industrial textures and precision-built tension, merging old-school Schranz roots with contemporary sound design. Expect no compromises, no trends – just maximum energy, dark atmosphere and 100% underground impact.

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


Musik von und für's Herz! Eine Mischung aus melodischem Tech und Deep House gepaart mit Pop-Stücken. #gestörtabergeil

38-year old music producer/DJ from Osnabrück, Germany. I’ll let my music tell you the rest.

Management:
SDM
Stefan Dabruck Management
stefan@s-d-management.com
frank@s-d-management.com

Bookings:
World - CAA
Maria May
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Jennifer Hammel
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