dates:

26.12.2015 berghain, berlin
18.12.2015 ubu, rennes
13.12.2015 jolene, kopenhagen
12.12.2015 kontra, malmoe
11.12.2015 under bron, stockholm
04.12.2015 jaeger, oslo
28.11.2015 conne island. leipzig
21.11.2015 closer, kiev
20.11.2015 robert johnson, ffm
13.11.2015 bassiani, tiblisi
07.11.2015 hinterhof, basel
25.10.2015 pal, hamburg
24.10.2015 la mashine, paris
15.10.2015 ADE
10.10.2015 Philadelphia
09.10.2015 new york
03.10.2015 san francisco
02.10.2015 los angeles
27.09.2015 seattle
25.09.2015 chicago
20.09.2015 chinastraat, ghent
07.09.2015 dc 10, ibiza
30.08.2015 dimensions
24.08.2015 plötzlich
23.08.2015 berghain, berlin 
01.08.2015 nachtigital
27.07.2015 dc10, ibiza
25.07.2015 nitsa, barcelona
24.07.2015 lux, lisabon
11.07.2015 kong, münchen
27.06.2015 fusion festival
17.06.2015 razzmatazz, barcelona 
13.06.2015 corsica studios, london
12.06.2015 toffler, rotterdam
05.06.2015 gewölbe, köln
30.05.2015 lighthouse festival
29.05.2015 hinterhof, basel
23.05.2015 harvey, kopenhagen
22.05.2015 xoyo, london
16.05.2015 philadelphia
15.05.2015 new york
14.05.2015 chicago
09.05.2015 seattle
08.05.2015 portland
02.05.2015 los angeles
01.05.2015 san fransisco
28.04.2015 air, tokyo
25.04.2015 organik, taiwan
17.04.2015 mystik, seoul
08.04.2015 sahara, marocco
28.03.2015 burdekin, sydney
27.03.2015 capulet, brisbane
21.03.2015 citipower, melbourne
07.03.2015 tba, london
06.03.2015 rike,  tbilisi
28.02.2015 tba, warsaw
27.02.2015 wosk, poznan
21.02.2015 stubnitz, hamburg
20.02.2015 rex, paris
15.02.2015 pal, hamburg
13.02.2015 stur, münster
07.02.2015 berghain, berlin
30.01.2015 lux, lisboa
22.01.2015 tba, tulum
31.12.2014 tresor, berlin
13.12.2014 alchemy, rom
12.12.2014 robert johnson, ffm
06.12.2014 ifz, leipzig
29.11.2014 manga, jena
28.11.2014 lärm, budapest
21.11.2014 heinz gaul, köln
14.11.2014 watergate, berlin
08.11.2014 stadtbad, berlin
31.10.2014 hinterhof, basel
25.10.2014 ms stubnitz, hamburg
23.10.2014 loft lambrate, milano
11.10.2014 cita puse, riga
10.10.2014 ulme, tallinn
27.09.2014 bunker ltd, new york
25.09.2014 lost society, washington
19.09.2014 tba, montreal
12.09.2014 tba, detroit
06.09.2014 tba, chicago
30.08.2014 underground kult, stockholm
23.08.2014 fuchsbau festival
22.08.2014 dance tunnel, london
15.08.2014 dockville, hamburg
25.07.2014 panoramabar, berlin
19.07.2014 melt, ferropolis
12.07.2014 prater unser, wien
28.06.2014 fusion, lärz
14.06.2014 nsdm, amsterdam
28.05.2014 mapping festival, geneva
23.05.2014 dora, ffm
03.05.2014 louver, tokyo
26.04.2014 organik festival, taiwan
05.04.2014 ladybar, basel
22.03.2014 westwerk, leipzig
01.03.2014 berghain, berlin
31.01.2014 fab05, stockholm
04.01.2014 la mashine, paris
23.11.2013 cross club, prag
22.11.2013 kabinet muz, brno
09.11.2013 conne island, leipzig
05.10.2013 live house galaxy, yokohama
04.10.2013 seco bar, tokyo
03.10.2013 dommune, tokyo
26.09.2013 casual agent, montreal
22.09.2013 output, new york
19.09.3013 lost society, washington dc
17.08.2013 dockville
03.08.2013 nachtigital
13.07.2013 batofar openair, paris
20.07.2013 henk amsterdam
28.06.2013 fusion festival
11.05.2013 rex, paris
01.05.2013 monasterio, moskau
27.04.2013 berghain, berlin
05.04.2013 blpck 66, kopenhagen


Photo by Frédéric Duval: instagram.com/frederic_duval

Acid Doctor from Berlin
Bookings : alex@biota.agency
Americas: nicole@muisca.la

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


Gesine Kühne & @JakobMandler are wds?
Bookings: wannadosomething.music@gmail.com

19 Jul - Klubnacht at Berghain/ Panorama Bar
5 Jul - wannadancewithsomebody w/ Peter Invasion & Baby Mango at Bulbul
30. May - Crack Bellmer
29. May - Sisyphos
19. Apr - EGGS EGGS EGGS at Kater Blau (Berlin)
04. Apr - Smilefestival Season Opening (FFM)
21. Mar - Sisyphos
07. Mar - wannadancewithsomebody w/Layers Collective at Bulbul (Berlin)
24. Jan - wannadancewithsomebody w/ Nikola & Chrandy at Bulbul (Berlin)

2024
Dez 28 - Klubnacht Berghain/Panorama Bar
Dez 6 - Bohnengold
Nov 16 - Watergate
Nov 9 - Ritter Butzke
Okt 19 - About Blank
Okt 5 - Sisyphos 16. Nichtgeburtstag
Sept 21 - wannadancewithsomebody (Bulbul Berlin) w/Nadine & Lana del Rave
Sept 7 - Renate (Berlin)
Aug 10 - Orangerie Neukölln with R27
Jul 28 - CSD Brunch at Super Cafe 
Jul 12 - Birgit & Bier w/ Johannes Albert & Nikklaas
Jun 20 - House of Gin
May 4 - wannadancewithsomebody? (Bulbul Berlin) w/Johannes Albert & Harry Nipples
May 4 - Sisyphos (Berlin)
Apr 30 - Power at Watergate (Berlin)
Apr 20 - House of Gin (Berlin)
Apr 13 - Waldschänke Dornheim (Würzburg)
Mar 17 - House of Gin (Berlin)
Feb 23 - House of Gin (Berlin)
Feb 16 - wannadancewithsomebody? (Bulbul) w/ Maltitz & Xpresso Martina
Feb 3 - Migración (Berlin)
Jan 26 - House of Gin (Berlin)

Highlights in 2023

Club Molli (Braunschweig)
Dessert / about blank (Berlin)
Pangea Festival (Ribnitz-Damgarten)
Watergate (Berlin)
Fuchs und Hase Festival (Herrenberg)
Rosa (Greifswald)
Revolting at Lab./Berghain (Berlin)
Renate (Berlin)

Highlights in  2022

Bulbul (Berlin)
House of Gin 4th Bday playing B2B w/Mijk van Dijk
Urlaub in Italien at Ritter Butzke (Berlin)
Tempio del Futuro Perduto (Milano)
Official CSD Party at Ritter Butzke (Berlin)
Feel Festival (Bergheider See)
Flenno Festival (Katzow)
unbedingt Festival Vol. 3 (Friedland)
Way Back When Festival (Dortmund)
Prism at Waldschänke Dornheim (Würzburg)

HIGHLIGHTS in 2021

Hör
unbedingt Festival Vol. 2
Tempio (del futuro perduto) Garden
Pangea Festival
Zuparken Festival
Tempio Del Futuro Perduto NYE Livestream

HIGHLIGHTS 2020

://about blank
unbedingt Festival Vol. 1
Aware Festival


wannadosomething? wurde von Gesine und Jakob vor allem aus einem Grund ins Leben gerufen: um ihr Genre Boss Dance zu etablieren. Was das genau ist, zeigen die beiden Lovebirds in ihren Sets, in denen sie auf eine musikalische Reise durch die Galaxie einladen. Eine Galaxie, in der nicht nur die schönsten House-Sterne funkeln, sondern auch Italodisco-, Elektro- und New-Wave-Sterne leuchten. Übrigens wannadosomething? ist nur echt mit dem Fragezeichen. Warum? Das erklären euch die Beiden am besten selbst.

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