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 2" (snippet)

She is the master dj of the Dj Music Organization Department. 
She Top 1 Turkish DJ.  
She has been a DJ trainer for projects such as DJ Workshop Turkey.
She has performed her music skills in many festivals, beach and night clubs all over Turkey and to many countries until the year 2018, when she signed a contract with FG DJ's in which she reflected his apparent change to her name as it became Djane EVA.
Djane EVA was played on FG RADIO from everywednesday &saturday since 2011 to 2013, and than later Djane EVA was played on RADIO Numberone FM 102.4 everyfriday &everysaturday night since 2014 to 2017. This is known by her close DJ and Producer friends. 
Also work such as ElectroHouse and Techno which are in Mixed-Album format, respectively, have taken it’s place in many DJ and music focused websites world-wide.Alsa She was got Oscar Best Female DJ on MEA Music Awards 2014 She has web-site ''www.florieva.com''.
This successful and complimentary work has earned it’s spot in the archives of many DJ and music fans. 
She will soon again new Mixed-Album meet with music-lovers once again. Our main genre focus is on Electro House, Commercial House, Techno, blended in with EDM. 
Parallel to her studio work she has shared the stage with many local / foreign DJ’s and artists in different parties, organizations, festivals and radio programs. She was played Electro Burn Festival Turkey, Chill out Fest. Turkey, Redbull Antalya Ultra Fest, Estonia Festival, Egypt Glow in the Dark Festival, White Sensation Jordan, Ultra music festival Malaysia,Pasha Ibiza etc… top100clubs in the world & Festivals. She is play top 100 Djane mag & top100djanes in the world. Flori Eva have been performing during the course of the last eight years over 300 live shows at Festivals ( sharing the same stage with big names like Markus Schulz, Armin Van Buuren, Blasterjaxx,Nina Kraviz, Major Lazer, Marcoe Plex and many more..)
Along with her endless energy in live performances and her constant  producer spirit, 
DJ EVA has become one of the best performers in the World.
DJ EVA continues her live performance in the body of Night Club/ Dj Music Organization in which she uses some of the best examples of Music & Derivatives, All House Range, High Global Commercial Sound & Style with the goal of connecting fans with what they desire to hear.
She is now have to many vote for 2018 on Djane Top 100 in the World & She’s First Female Dj in Turkey on Djanetop 100. 
Places previously played
TURKEY, LEBANON, MAURITIUS, SYCHELLES, BULGARIA, EGYPT, KUWAIT, QATAR, INDIA, ALMATY, IRAQ,THAILAND,GEORGIA,MALEYSIA,MOSKOW,MALDIVES
SOUTH AFRICA, SEYCHELLES, JORDAN, GERMANY, BELGIUM, MYKANOS ,RUSSIA, CYPRUS, FRANCE,ESTONIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, GREECE, MEXICO, PHILIPPINES, FİNLAND,POLAND,ETC...

David, born 81, living in Buenos Aires, music lover. That's all 

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


John Rynecki is a deep house DJ and music producer from Chicago and Panama on a mission to make the world a better place. Through the sets he plays and the events he curates, he creates spaces for connection and presence. In a world full of distractions, giving someone the space to dance, connect, and outsmart their smartphone is one of the best gifts of all.

As co-founder of Chicago Electronic Music Conference (CEMC), John is committed to uplifting artists and industry professionals by bridging the culture of dance music with the realities of today’s music industry. Rooted in Chicago’s house legacy and guided by a belief that dance music can build better futures, John continues to push for spaces that reflect the values of this rich culture.