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Recording of the 3 hours set performed in Stereo Room during the gig with Chris Liebing

07-09-13 - Gandalf (Stereo / IT) @ Audiodrome

Taken from the Perc album 'The Power And The Glory' - out now.

http://perctrax.bandcamp.com/album/the-power-and-the-glory

Before Perc’s eagerly awaited second album ‘The Power And The Glory’ is released, Perc Trax is offering up this first glimpse of one of the album's key moments. ‘Take Your Body Off’ is the album’s most focused club track and has already been road-tested by Perc across Europe at gigs ranging from small basement clubs to 5,000 strong festival crowds. 

Built upon a foundation of stabbing kick drums, rolling triplet snare patterns and a wall of sub bass, the track is completed by the vocals of Dan Chandler of London noise rock outfit Dethscalator. The piercing, guttural vocals, more akin to the short sharp shock of a metal performance provide the kind of sonic jolt techno used to trade in, yet which is rarely heard these days. 

Buy at Bandcamp

Perc - Take Your Body Off (Perc Trax)

Tracklist: http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/17/fact-mix-426-perc/

FACT Mix 426 - Perc (Feb '14)

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

recording of Maceo Plex live @ Boiler Room Berlin 17-09-2014

Maceo Plex 90min set @ Boiler Room Berlin 17-09-2014

Watch the set and get the full tracklist at https://boilerroom.tv/recording/maceo-plex-berlin?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=tracklist

Maceo Plex Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

Chill house - Self-Awareness

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► The inimitable Maceo Plex at his label takeover in Ibiza. Lest we also forget 'Ellum guy' making his mark throughout this set. Boiler Room history in the making

Maceo Plex Boiler Room Ibiza DJ Set

Where bicycles cross under the Rijksmuseum during the day, for one evening only the Passage belonged to Maceo Plex. 

RA: residentadvisor.net/dj/maceoplex
FB: facebook.com/MaceoPlex
Audio Obscura: facebook.com/AudioObscura

Maceo Plex @ Audio Obscura at Rijksmuseum ADE, 21 Oct 2016

This year, Kölsch​ turns to Ibiza, a place he is making his own for the next few months. He's just become resident at Hï, the club that's taken over in the ashes of Space and as part of In The Dark and he joins the likes of Nic Fanciulli, Steve Lawler and Joris Voorn to bring a new brand of fire to the hallowed venue. 

His cover mix encapsulates his sound with an extended session that explores the deeper side of the man in the hat. Tracks from Phil Kieran, Mathew Jonson and Henrik Schwarz contribute towards an amazing mix, one of the best this year.

The Cover Mix: Kölsch

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

https://www.facebook.com/kolschofficial

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

Kölsch recorded live at Time Warp Mannheim 2019 from Floor 4

TASCAM DR-05

Kölsch live at Time Warp Mannheim 2019

MPIA3 - Your Orders

Boiler Room w/ John Heckle, MPIA3, Shifted & Ventress.

[Broadcast on 15th November 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

MPIA3 live in the Boiler Room

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► Tale Of Us closing out Nuits Sonores festival with an imaginative set of deep techno.

Tale of Us Boiler Room x Nuits Sonores DJ Set

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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