Next Shows: 
06.10. Rebellion der Träumer* @ Kater Blau, BLN
17.08.2024 Bucht der Träumer* Festival feat. Tanzen3000

TASTY - a very risky booking. 
All requests to: johannes@revo-artists.com

2023
31.12.TASTY feat. Tanzen3000 @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
05.11. @Rebellion der Träumer* / Rentate BLN
08.-11.09. Mystic Creatures Festival
03.09. Lusatia Festival
01.09. Tarmac Festival
19.08. Bucht der Träumer* Festival
29.07. Station Endlos
22.07. Kashay Salon, Dresden
22.06. TASTY - Alvin Colantes Dose of Pleasure, Club Ost
29.05. TASTY - Tanzen3000 @ Karneval der Kulturen, BLN
09.04. Rebellion der Träumer* Renate, BLN
17.03. Mystic Creatures im fluc, Wien

**2022**
26.11. Tanzhaus West
30.09. Bahnwärter Thiel, München
26.08. Eulenflug Festival
20.08. Bucht der Träumer* Festival
31.07. Sisyphos Berlin
21.07. Summer Contrast Festival, Poland
24.07. Synthesis Festival
16.07. Sternenfest, Mellensee
07.07. Gretchen BLN (as Miracle Mobsters)
24.06. Tagtraum Festival, Luxembourg 
30.04. Rave in den Mai, Festsaal Kreuzberg, 
17.04. Kammerflimmern X Rebellion der Träumer @ Conny Kramer Münster
16.04. SEcret Location, Halle
31.03. Klunkerkranich (as Miracle Mobsters)
20.03. Tagtraum Watertower Rave, Luxembourg


**2021**
21.08. Pangea Festival
14.08. Neue Arten Festival

**2020**
15.08. Bucht der Träumer* Festival
11.07.Rebellion Open Air in Leipzig
13.06. Rebellion Open Air in Hamburg
17.05. Rebellion der Träumer Sommerfest im Kater Blau
25.04. Rebellion im Bahnwärter Thiel, München
17.04. Rebellion im Mensch Meier, BLN
04.04. Leipzig, Secret Location
28.03. Rebellion in einer Bucht, BLN
14.03. Tribal Gathering, Panama
19.02. Armando Records, Bogota, Colombia
01.02. Beate Uwe, BLN
31.01. Yaam, BLN
11.01. Rebellion der Träumer @ Mensch Meier

**2019**
31.12. Endstation, Halle
07.12. Rebellion der Träumer im Mjut, LPZ
22.11. Rebellion der Träumer Showcase b2b Sonnensysteme @ Kater, BLN
02.11. Sisyphos mit Krawalle & Liebe, BLN
26.10. 6 Jahre Bewusstseinserheiterung, BLN
11.10. Endlos Rebellion in Halle
02.10. Bad City Mensch Meier, BLN
28.09. Bahnwärter Thiel, München
17.8. Bucht der Träumer* 2019
2.8. Klangtherapie Festival
27.7. Zugvøgel Festival
28.6. Fusion - FKK Strand as "Miracle Mobsters"
1.6. Tiefdruckgebeat, BLN
12.5. Kater Blau, BLN
3.5. Serendubity, BLN
29.3. Bad City @ Kater Blau
23.3. Rebellion der Träumer, Bucht, BLN
15.3. Ketoga x Rebellion, Hannover
15.2. Heimlich | Rebellion im Kater Blau, BLN

2018

25.05. MOYN MOYN 2018 - ein Festival im Norden
18.08. Bucht der Träumer* Festival 2018
04.08. Sisyphos
29.07. Kater Blau / Heinz Hopper
06.07. Rebellion der Träumer zu Gast im Bahnwärter Thiel
30.06. Fusion Festival, Sonnendeck




14.Oktober Rebellion der Träumer @ Mensch Meier 
01. September at.tension Festival
18. August Bucht der Träumer* Festival - Atlantis Stage 
12. August 3000°Grad Festival
10. August Wilde Möhre Festival
29. Juli Sisyphos, Dampfer BLN
26.05. Gutzeit @ Kater Blau, BLN 
06.5. Rebellion der Träumer, LEIPZIG
11.3. Radion, AMSTERDAM
06.3. Kater Blau 
13.01.2017 Kater Kiosk, BLN
09.12. Mensch Meier, BLN
5.-7.8. Garbicz Festival
29.06. Fusion Festival, Lärz
23.06. Bordel des Arts, Salon zur wilden Renate, Berlin
18.06. Rebellion der Träumer, Leipzig
19.02. 3000°, DOCKS, HH mit Sawatzki
31.01. Südpol, HH
15.01. 3000°, Ritter Butzke, BLN
06.12. Rummels Bucht, BLN
05.12. Ritter Butzke, BLN
01.11 Tal der Verwirrung, BLN
30.10. Sisyphos, BLN
23.10. Rebellion der Träumer, BLN
17.10. Mensch Meier, BLN
19.09. Aromat, Stuttgart
23.-26.08. Kobalde und Liebe Festival

25.-28.06. Fusion Festival
16.05. Mensch Meier, BLN
18.04. Rummels Bucht, BLN
10.04. WUC, Istanbul
03.04. Sisyphos, BLN
28.02. KB18, Køpenhagen
13.12. MS Stubnitz, HH
14.11. Peyote, Istanbul
13.11. Kasette, Istanbul
18.10. Zwischenbau Rostock (w. Electronic Swing Orchestra)
17. 10. Honigfabrik Hamburg (w. Electronic Swing Orchestra)

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


Rooted in Berlin, Britta Arnold channels the city’s boundless creativity and ever-evolving energy into her music, which reflects her surroundings—diverse, grounded, and always forward-thinking.

In a world of ever recycled trends, Tiefschwarz (deep black) is that most classic of shades. Its timeless style is testament to its staying power, and with a DJ and production career spanning over 14 years, this German deep house duo have proven just how apt a moniker can be. Born and bred in Stuttgart, brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz’s passion for techno and deep house flourished their initial experience as DJs in the early 90’s at the now legendary clubs that Ali ran in their home town, ON –U and Red Dog. This led to the formation of Tiefschwarz in 1997, from which they found rapid success with their debut single ‘Music’ (on Francois K’s Wave Music label) and album Ral 9005. By 2001, this had been licensed to the London label Classic Recordings from where they springboarded to international recognition. They decided to make the move to Berlin, at the time fast becoming the epicentre of a true electronic music renaissance, from where they pursued a hectic touring schedule and remixing the likes of Cassius, The Rapture, Missy Elliott, Kelis and their personal heroes Masters At Work. They then scored a double whammy with their all-conquering crossover hit remix of Spektrum’s ‘Kinda New’ and the single ‘Isst’ off their 2005 long-player, ‘Eat Books’. This was also the year that electrohouse dominated the charts and minimal the clubs, but Tiefschwarz have never allowed themselves to be tied down to a certain sound, staying true to their love of melody as demonstrated on their contribution to the Fabric mix series that year.
A series of high profile mixes in 2006, including Depeche Mode, Madonna, Roxy Music, Booka Shade, Phonique, Plastikman, dOP, and many others saw them continue perfecting their distinctive sound. Yet this was also the year in which Ali and Basti gravitated back to Berlin to found their own label, Souvenir. Basti explains “We like the idea of seeing music as a souvenir, an impression you take from somewhere. Something intimate that you remember”. They haven’t let this slow down their impressive production workload though, with a ten year anniversary compilation and a 2010 follow up album ‘Chocolate’ made in collaboration with Santé, and featuring Cassy, Seth Troxler, Dave Aju amongst others. At a perfect time to take stock of their career, the brothers are proudly contributing the ninth installment in the Watergate mix series, and have chosen a number of tracks that simultaneously pay homage to the tracks that shaped the beginnings of their career whilst also remaining very much forward looking. After years of constant touring, however, their Souvenir label has allowed them to lay down more permanent roots back in Berlin. It’s a place to foster talent, both young and old, not only in a sense of releasing records but also as a platform to share mutual experiences within a common network, a close core of artists work together including Ruede Hagelstein, Maher Daniel, the brothers Santé and Re.You, Ali &amp; Basti at the helm. With plenty more artists on the roster as well as a digital only subsidiary, Souvenir Plus, and a debut LP from Hagelstein on the horizon, there is promise of plenty yet to come for the Schwarz brothers’ imprint.

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