Co-owned by Jamie Jones and Lee Foss, groundbreaking independent dance label Hot Creations has gained global notoriety in recent years through pioneering a new and unique sound born of its founders deep affinity with old disco records and soulful beats. 2013 will see the duo take their label to even greater planes upon the major label release of their band Hot Natured’s truly unique debut album and a mile long waiting list of incredible music from incredibly successful talent such as Digitaria, Greg Pidcock, Richy Ahmed, Robert James and wAFF.

For consideration for release on Hot Creations and Hottrax, please upload demos here for review: https://tstack.app/hotcreations

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Management: nicole.richyahmed@gmail.com

Bookings: Will@nge-booking.com

USA Bookings: rs@thebullittagency.com

Dancefloor Disobedience since 1995

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Demos - skint.demos@bmg.com

Brought to you by the team behind 
@OLDSKOOLPARTIES

we feature a wide variety of mixes by popular house legends & talented up & coming artists with a vintage style of performing and producing. 

mixes consist of the DJs favourite tracks, classic house tracks and a ton of hidden gems...

(Chicago, Acid, Garage, 90s Underground, Soul & Disco) mixed with current house & techno that's strongly influenced by the 'old school' sounds.

All mixes will have different styles and themes.
we also feature some straight 100% vinyl mixes

Karma Music Collection is the home to the sublime sounds you'll hear at Karma Resorts and Karma Beach, a boutique group of luxury resorts and beach clubs in Bali, Thailand, Greece and Australia with developments underway in Bahamas, Fiji, Brighton and Phillipines. 

We're a little different to your average luxury 5 star group, given that we have globally recognised DJs and artists performing at our resorts and beach clubs all year round. Some of our recent guests in 2012 include Gilles Peterson, Aeroplane, Sandy Rivera, The Orb, Jon Sa Trinxa, Bomb The Bass, Sampology, Sarah McLeod, Sian Evans, Katherine Ellis... to name a few. 

The streams on our SoundCloud are a small selection of live recorded performances at our lovely resorts and beach clubs. So if you feel like injecting a little bit of sunset beach club or poolside vibe into your day or evening, turn on, tune in and drop out...

Hope to see you for a cocktail or few soon! 

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A renowned DJ & producer, label boss and art creative, DAVIDE SQUILLACE'S career is constantly evolving as he brings his innovative ideas to the forefront, from music to art. A true renowned talent, his sound is an eloquent mix of techno, dance, indie, instrumental and downtempo beats.
DAVIDE SQUILLACE’s career title is constantly evolving. A label boss,
art creative and renowned DJ & producer in his own right, Davide has the
ability to express himself audibly and visually through the different
platforms he has created over the years. Since establishing his music
career over a decade ago, Davide’s dynamic sound continues to light up
and inspire dancefloors, spanning over many continents. Constantly
pushing the boundaries of electronic music, his sound is an eloquent mix
of techno, dance, indie, instrumental and downtempo beats. His side
project, Better Lost Than Stupid sees Davide collaborate with fellow
revered DJ’s: Martin Buttrich and Matthias Tanzmann. Also passionate
about art and culture, Davide established two creative brands and artist
collectives, This And That and Blender.

Bookings: 
WW- Future Artists -Salvatore Assante - bookings@futureartists.agency
South America: Arturo Ruiz - arturo@tboamerica.com
Italy: Oltre Bookings  - alex@oltrebooking.com
North America: rs@thebullittagency.com

Music producer from Norway.


Booking North/South America: 
Joel Zimmerman  JZimmerman@wmeentertainment.com

Bookings International: 
Simon Clarkson SClarkson@wmeentertainment.com 


Management/All other inquries: 
myles@goldenharegroup.com

Press INFO:
US Press: myles@goldenharegroup.com
UK/EU Press: matt@getinpr.com

Scand: scandinavia.press@gmail.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


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