Hold / Clear

Kölsch - Clear

Kölsch - Hold

Speicher 119

Kölsch - Woohman

Kölsch - Speicherband

Speicher 128

Kölsch - Cold Air

Kölsch - Environ

1. Joris Voorn – The Monk
2. Mathew Jonson – Sahara
3. Lulu Rouge – Sign Me Out (Hankat Remix)
4. Nina Kraviz – Sheer
5. Coma – My Orbit
6. Mathew Jonson – Level 7 (Dixon Remix)
7. Kölsch – Goldfisch
8. Tripmastaz – Revolver Beats
9. Nikola Gala – Fluxx
10. Photek – Mine To Give
11. Âme – Den Ratta
12. Taras Van Se Horde – Chasing Winters
13. Kölsch – Work In Progress #1
14. DJ Pierre – Come Together (Supernova Remix Instrumental)
15. Phuture Scope – What Iz Houzemusik
16. Cajmere – Co2 (Noir Remix)
17. Kölsch – Oma
18. Apparat – Song Of Los (Michael Mayer Remix)
19. Omar S – Triangulum Astrale
20. Gregor Schwellenbach – Oxias Domino
21. Technasia – I Am Somebody
22. Moderat – Bad Kingdom (Marcel Dettmann Remix)
23. Kölsch & Troels Abrahamsen – All That Matters (andhim Remix)
24. The Reaver – Mmmm
25. Kölsch – Work In Progress #2
26. Deetron & Ripperton – Thinking
27. Shinedoe – Pure Groove
28. Zoo Brazil – Monde
29. Loose Joints – Love Dancing
30. Robert Hood – Never Grow Old
31. Slove – Flash (Pachanga Boys Remix)
33. Basti Grub – Rubber Mallet
34. Tapiola Sinfoienetta – Fratres For Strings And Precussion
35. Shinedoe – Dilemma (Kölsch Re-Edit)
36. Good Guy Mikesh – Place Of Love (MP Edit)
37. andhim – Hausch (Kölsch Remix)
38. Kölsch – Der Alte
39. Deepside – French
40. David Bowie – Subterraneans

Kölsch Radio 1 Essential Mix

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When i was around 6 my favorite show in Germany was Sesamstrasse. It was a German adaptation of the American Sesame Street. I was really crazy about the show, and I used to always watch it at my Grandparents in Germany.

The intro song was very dear to me. The lyrics went Der Die Das, Wie Weshalb Warum. Which ruffly translates to He She It, How, For what reason, Why.

The intro song spawned this Childish Curiosity in me. I had to explore everything around me. I would bang on lids in the kitchen to hear what they sounded like.

It was this song that made we want to make sounds with different objects, and experiment with early rythms. From this moment on i was engulfed in anything that made a sound.

DerDieDas

For the debut release on my own new label IPSO with Kompakt Records, I wanted to try something different. The new label, IPSO is for me to invite a friend or a hero, - someone I admire musically to do a collaboration.
I’ve long been a fan of limiting myself in the studio. 
Sometimes working with less equipment brings out the best in you, so for the first release I figured it would be interesting to experiment with this. 
Inspired by the danish dogma films, I decided to make a rule. 
As I’m not one for overdoing things, the rule is very simple.
We are only allowed to use one instrument.
I reached out to my friend and all time hero Michael Mayer to do the first collab. 
Other than being co-founder of the mighty Kompakt records, and signing me in 2009, he is a genius in a dj Booth and a great producer. 
He has always been a great inspiration to me, so we agreed to start of my new Label with a bang. 
I set out the challenge, that Michael should choose the instrument. 
As I arrived in Cologne, Michael had chosen an old Yamaha Organ. Funny side note, is that it is actually Jörg Burgers organ. Jörg is actually quiet the legend himself, but that is another story. 
Michael and I spent 1 day in the studio, and we had a blast. 
The outcome is 2 great pieces of music that I'm very proud to share with you. RELEASE DIGITAL & VINYL - MAY 20

Kölsch & Michael Mayer "Dogma 1" (snippet)

Kölsch - Loreley - Original Mix

Kölsch - Opa - Original Mix

Flume ft. Little Dragon "Take A Chance" Kölsch Remix

Axtone Ten

Kölsch feat. Troels Abrahamsen - All That Matters

I always enjoy playing long sets and one of my favourite times of the year is playing my IPSO residency at Gewölbe where I tend play up to 9 Hours.

The long sets I think are important, because it gives so much freedom musically and Gewölbe is an incredible club to do that. 

From the only bespoke built Martion horn soundsystem in the world, to the extended opening hours, there is no place like it.

Gewölbe IPSO residency 5 Hour Set - Nov 17 2017

Out Now:  https://lnk.to/IPSO002-HALSM

About a year ago I launched my label IPSO. First release was a collab with Michael Mayer. We made Dogma 1 and 2, and the tracks have been in heavy rotation ever since. I remember a magical morning at Panorama Bar where we played Dogma 1. It was one of those moments we all live for, where everything fell in place. Magical.

This summer IPSO 002 is released and this time it's a collab with none other than Tiga. We spent a couple of great days in my Copenhagen Studio, and I'm really proud of what we came up with.
This is the first track "HAL" from the forthcoming IPSO 002 E.P.

Kölsch & Tiga - "HAL"

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Beatport - http://www.beatport.com/track/all-that-matters-original/3579620

Vinyl - http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/all_that_matters

Kölsch feat. Troels Abrahamsen - All That Matters - Original Mix

Speicher 93

Grey

Speicher 106

Little Death

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KÖLSCH ESSENTIAL MIX - 22 DEC 2018

10 Hour Set - IPSO Antwerp - 8 Dec 2018 part I

10 Hour Set - IPSO Antwerp - 8 Dec 2018 part II

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Latest recording of Kölsch's live-set full of new material. 

No tracklist - All tracks are played live and most of them are still defined as "work in progress".

Kölsch - Live @ Panorama Bar, Berlin - 27072012

Jam & Spoon "Stella" KÖLSCH Remix https://www.beatport.com/track/stella-kolsch-remix-long/11876550

Stella

Jam And Spoon - Stella - Kölsch Remix

Out April 22nd on Beatport!

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A very special record for me. The efx on the track were recorded many many years ago in my grandparents garden, Its my grandad messing about in the shed. There is a ghost in this song. 

Kölsch - GoldFisch (Preview)

Shoulder Of Giants / Glypto

Shoulder Of Giants

Grand Park, Los Angeles - Feb 29 2020 [Factory 93]

Time / Sleeper Must Awaken

Kölsch, Beacon - Time

The Great Consumer / Remind You

Kölsch - Remind You

While Waiting For Something To Care About / Now Here No Where

Kölsch - Now Here No Where

A morning I will never forget. In 2018 I was asked to Close the outdoor stage for TImewarp in Sao Paolo. It was a magical experience.

Kölsch Time Warp Brazil 2018

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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