press/management: harry@futureclassic.com
booking australia & nz: evan@villagesounds.com / andy@villagesounds.com
booking usa & canada: lhughes@paradigmagency.com
licensing: mitchell@futureclassic.com

✖✖✖ BOOKING & REQUEST ✖✖✖ 
- vijay.sofia.zlatko@gmail.com

✖✖✖ NEWS --> FEELING GOOD RECORDS ✖✖✖
Follow our own Label and send us your DEMO ;-)
- Soundcloud: @feelinggoodrecords
- Email: feelinggoodrecords@gmail.com

✖✖✖ BIO ✖✖✖
Vijay, whose real name is "Olivier" is the owner and producer behind the projects Vijay & Sofia but also Parallel, White Milk as well as TRIBU recently signed with ARMADA for 3 years.
Reaching over a million clicks per month on Soundcloud alone, his various projects reach enormous statistics for an underground artist.
Through official remixes for DAFT PUNK, MOBY, FEDER, CAMELPHAT, MOGUAI, HOOVERPHONIC and collaborations with artists like Vintage Culture, Rodriguez Jr, Camilo Franco, Chemical Surf, Nico Pusch to name a few as well as production for "THE VOICE" or to set to music reports for the famous "NEW YORK TIMES".
Vijay navigates between Dance-Floor, Nu-Disco, Deep-House, Afro-House, Melodic and Ethnic productions with a melodic line of his own that always manages to take you on a journey.

Vijay is also the originator of several unofficial remixes of artists like Asaf Avidan, Daft Punk, John Newman, Kiesza, Ben Howard, 2Pac, A$AP Rocky, Duke Dumont, Gabriel Rios, Buena Vista Social Club, Queen , Nicolas Jaar, and many others reaching several million plays and distributed for free on Soundcloud.

Since 2021, Vijay has become an ambassador for Ableton in the Walloon region and helps several young artists to carry out their musical projects.
And being a drummer originally, he also accompanies his performances with percussion shows.

Vijay is currently working on his new project "V&S", a new duo with which he will soon be on tour exploring new musical horizons.
Stay tuned, this is a case to follow....

  COLLABORATION & REMIX:
MOBY, DAFT PUNK, FEDER, CAMELPHAT, MOGUAI, VINTAGE CULTURE, CHEMICAL SURF, AUTOGRAF, LOULOU PLAYERS, HOOVERPHONIC, THE GURU PROJECT, RODRIGUEZ JUNIOR, CAMILLO FRANCO, SHANGUY, BEN DJ, MATVEY EMERSON, SACCAO, LIVA K, JAZZYFUNK, HEAVY PINS, BEN WEBER, CASSIM, DANIEL FERNANDEZ, VAMOS ART, PING-PONG, NICO PUSCH...

  LABELS:
★ UNIVERSAL ★ SONY ★ WARNER ★ EGO ★ SPINNIN/SOURCE ★ TIME ★ KONTOR ★ ARMADA DEEP ★ COUNTER RECORDS ★ TONSPIEL ★ BIG BEAT RECORDS ★ ATLANTIC RECORDS ★ TIGERS RECORDS ★ SLEAZY DEEP/G ★ TIEFBLAU ★ COLOMBIA and many others.. .

  STATS (just for people who need statistics):
- SOUNDCLOUD --> 128,500 Followers
                              --> 58,000,000 Plays

- SPOTIFY --> 33,000 Followers
                    --> 50,000,000 plays

- YOUTUBE --> 25,000,000 plays

love is everything

ENQUIRIES: ellis@lookingfortrouble.club
BOOKING EUROPE: SJH@wmeagency.com
BOOKING AMERICAS: mallgrab@teamwass.com
BOOKING OCEANIA: swald@wmeagency.com

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


Tamara - EDM Violinist
Hailing from humble beginnings in regional Victoria Tamara (Tammy Bonazza) was made for music. The now 23 year old began her musical journey at the age of 5. Being classically trained in the art of violin created the framework for this artist to not only perform at a high standard, but to understand the connection between instruments and how they relate to the listener. 

At the age of 18 Tamara’s experience in music completely changed as she discovered night clubs.  The banging baselines and over crowded rooms meshed with different forms of electronic music was an intoxicating aroma that she could never shake off. Dedicating her time to studying this new form of ‘dance’ music became her new obsession and a clear pathway to develop as an artist.

“Learning to DJ and produce that electro sound just felt like a natural progression for me moving forward in my career. As my interests changed and I was exposed to new forms of EDM I couldn’t help but try to incorporate what I had already learned on my musical journey with violin and apply it to a new setting, it really inspired & invigorated me.”

Drawing inspiration from the likes of  KSHMR, Timmy Trumpet, Tigerlily, Mike Williams, Sevenn and Brooks, Tamara incorporates her violin into every live performance replacing  lead synths with live melodies creating an unforgettable experience for the club / festival attendees. Lighting up any room with her amazing energy, stage presence, sequinned outfits and shiny shoes, Tamara is proof that in 3 short years of being in the industry that you can cement a point of difference. 

Signing to That Sound Agency in 2017 has seen Tamara perform at notable Australian venues such as; Lucky Thursdays & Cloud Nine as well as travelling to New Zealand to perform an intimate show at Vinyl Underground in Queenstown and a high energy performance at Bali’s new club, LXXY. 

Taking every opportunity that comes her way, Tamara has spent countless hours learning to produce electronic music. Her original productions draw influence from multicultural elements highlighted through her violin melodies. With 2020 fast approaching, this young artist has a plethora of original music showcasing her blend of Violin electro to be blasted out of club and festival speakers to be released throughout next year.  As she continues to progress and accomplish her goals, Tamara is an artist to keep a close eye on in the coming months as she is shaping up to be one of the hottest up and coming Australian female DJs.

BOOKING

Americas:
ryan@liaisonartists.com
Aus/NZ: 
vic@astralpeople.com
Europe /ROW: 
john@higher-ground.de


MANAGEMENT / REMIXES / PRESS 
Luke Williams: 
luke@thisismusicltd.com
Simon Gold: 
simon@thisismusicltd.com

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