Paul Weber heißt der Künstler, der es schafft, Gitarrenmusik mit inhaltlichem Tiefgang zu verbinden, dabei einen modernen und zeitlosen Sound zu wählen, mit Druck und feiner Intensität, wie man ihn in Deutschland schon lange nicht mehr gehört hat.

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http://www.paulwebermusic.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


⭐️ Festival für Musik und Kunst in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. 👀
Neben Live-Acts und Bands spielen beim MS DOCKVILLE immer auch zahlreiche DJs und elektronische Acts. House, Techno und elektronische Musik abseits klassischer Genregrenzen, die Bühnen und Nächte in Wilhelmsburg genießen einen legendären Ruf. 
Einige Sets davon gibt's auch hier zu hören. ✨👂

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Demo submission: 
We receive a lot of demos every day. Please understand that we are unable to listen to everything. Send your private soundcloud link to: label@kompakt.fm.

booking: 
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Living my Life, full of music 

"schNee is all about the musical experience and that is evident through her sound. Her mixes are full of emotional range, with deep melodies and lots of bass to the upbeat ‘feel the sun on your face’ beats - she truly wants you to feel and be enveloped in the music like she herself is. She oozes of diversity, playing anything from house to techno."

"Getragen von der eigenen Stimmung gelingt es ihr so immer wieder ihrem Gefühl entsprechend Ausdruck zu verleihen und die passenden Perlen herauszupicken, aufzufädeln und eine wundervolle einzigartige auditive Kette zu „basteln“, die Raum für Interpretation lässt, zum Verweilen und Sinnieren aber auch zum Traumtanzen einlädt."

past gigs	
09.07.22 Zurich - Hive
07.05.22 Zurich - Tram Museum
17.08.19 Rostock - Helga's Stadtpalast
26.05.19 Berlin - Blank
27.10.18 Berlin - Licht Am Berg
02.06.18 Berlin - Sisyphos
21.04.18 Berlin - Keller
24.03.18 Magdeburg - Insel der Jugend
09.02.18 Zürich (CH) - Hive
24.12.17 Bern (CH) - Reitschule
11.11.17 Rostock Helgas Stadtpalast - ★ Le Voyage Dans La Lune ★
20.10.17 Berlin Ritter Butzke w/ Dominik Eulberg 
15.09.17 Dance for Kobane - MM 
25.-27.08.17  Captain's Rave, Étang-sur-Arroux (France)
21.07.17 Tutow Flugplatz Monis Rache Festival
08.07.17 Breminale w/ LEMMON
01.07.17 Zug der Liebe - Beatfreak
12.05.17  Berlin MM Ram Schakl
01.05.17 Bremen Grillen und Chillen w/ Moonbootica
28.04.17	München	 Harry Klein w/ Mimi Love
16.04.17 Berlin Sisyphos	
14.04.17	Berlin	7 years Beatfreak Ritter Butzke
17.03.17   Berlin Mensch Meier
04.03.17	Berlin	Mensch Meier
12.02.17	Zürich 	Hive
03.02.17	Berlin	Keller
27.01.17	Rostock	JAZ
15.10.16	Magdeburg	Festung Mark
23.09.16	Berlin	Maze
11.09.16	Berlin	Magdalena
02.09.16	Berlin	Mensch Meier
07.08.16	Bremen	Schuppen2
06.08.16	Berlin	Sisyphos
06.08.16	Berlin	Keller
30.07.16	Berlin	Zug der Liebe
17.06.16	Étang-sur-Arroux, France	Château Melon d'Eau Festival
09.06.16	Flughafen Pütnitz	Zurück zu den Wurzeln Festival
04.06.16	Rostock	Helga's Stadtpalast
22.05.16	Berlin	Magdalena
15.05.16	Zürich 	Hive
13.05.16	Hamburg	Fundbureau
22.04.16	Berlin	Kosmonaut
09.04.16	Hannover	Cosmic Society
02.04.16	Berlin	Keller
28.03.16	Berlin	Sisyphos
19.02.16	Zürich 	Hive
13.02.16	Basel	Balz
23.01.16	Berlin	Crack Bellmer
16.01.16	Rostock	Helga's Stadtpalast
18.12.15	Magdeburg	Festung Mark
21.11.15	Berlin	About Blank
26.09.15	Frankfurt	
18.07.15	Berlin	Sisyphos
11.07.15	Berlin	Crack Bellmer
06.06.15	Berlin	Ritter Butzke
13.05.15	Basel	Jägerhalle
30.04.15	Pasewalk	Speicher
11.04.15	Magdeburg	Wohnstube
10.04.15	Essen	19 Down
28.03.15	Berlin	Crack Bellmer
07.02.15	Hamburg	Fundbureau
24.01.15	Weilheim	Grüne Sonne Festival
31.12.14	Zürich 	Hive
22.11.14	Hannover	Cosmic Society
15.11.14	Aalen	Paparazzi
01.11.14	Hamburg	Prinzenbar
01.11.14	Rostock	Helga's Stadtpalast
18.10.14	Berlin	Ritter Butzke
20.09.14	Magdeburg	Altes Theater
07.09.14	Bremen	Schuppen2
29.08.14	Den Haag	Club Seven
28.08.14	Rotterdam	Toffler
15.08.14	Hamburg	Dockville
23.07.14	Berlin	Weekend
19.07.14	München	Bullit
20.06.14	Berlin	Lichtpark
17.05.14	Zürich 	Hive
20.04.14	Berlin	About Blank
03.04.14	München	Rote Sonne
29.03.14	Zürich 	Ambossrampe
22.03.14	Berlin	Ritter Butzke
01.02.14	Kiel	Räucherei Kiel
20.12.13	Stuttgart	Rocker33
07.12.13	Braunschweig	Nexus
23.11.13	Hamburg	Baalsaal
22.11.13	Berlin	Lichtpark
28.09.13	Hamburg	Fundbureau
28.09.13	Hamburg	WEIRD Boat
24.09.13	Berlin	Weekend
13.09.13	Magdeburg	Wohnstube
17.08.13	Bonn	Tante Rike
10.08.13	Ile de Ré, France	Replay Festival
12.07.13	Bremen	Breminale
20.06.13	Hamburg	Baalsaal
08.06.13	Düsseldorf	Club134
02.06.13	Bremen	Schuppen2
24.05.13	Leipzig	Alte DHF
18.05.13	Hamburg	Edelfettwerk
08.05.13	Kassel	A.R.M.
04.05.13	Kiel	Detail
13.04.13	Berlin	Ritter Butzke
25.01.13	Hamburg	Baalsaal

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