DJ / Producer / @HeldeepRecords label boss / Weekly Radioshow @HeldeepRadio / HI-LO @official-hilo (My darker, more #Techno focused alter ego) / enjoy :)
More of my DJ sets are on my YouTube channel though:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLLVQloTOSNkIF9uSdh_lWQ
@HeldeepRadio 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYC_nQJ9mAA&list=PLoVPdGdbdII3XrN-6CvLoHGRHM5jz_OGZ

Enjoy! :)

MGMT
Dave Frank 
heldens@milkhoneyla.com

BOOKINGS
N/S America: kevin.gimble@unitedtalent.com & matt.meyer@unitedtalent.com
ROW: jennifer.hammel@caa.com

For all bookings/remix requests please contact:
hansbouffmyhre@hotmail.co.uk

"The name Hans Bouffmyhre was born in the summer of 2006, when a group of friends decided to start their own techno night in a dark basement in Paisley, Scotland. The first night was a massive success and the rest is now history. 15 years later Hans Bouffmyhre is an established artist within the worldwide techno scene. Having released music on some of the worlds most esteemed techno labels like Soma Records, Electric Deluxe, Perc Trax, Suara and others. Meanwhile his own label Sleaze Records goes from strength to strength, firmly stapled as one of the best techno labels in the UK.

Hans has been lucky enough to play regular DJ sets at some of the biggest and most well known clubs in the world, from the infamous Berghain in Berlin, to Melkweg in Amsterdam, Rex Club in Paris, Sub Club in Glasgow amongst many others. He is known for bringing a raw, hypnotic and energetic style. Still only in his mid 30’s and with already so much experience as a DJ, producer, label manager and party organiser, the future looks bright for Hans Bouffmyhre."

I’m 30 years old as a raver majority  of my days I’ve been strongly passionate about electronic music influenced by 90s house,acid house, underground tech and deep bass sounds

Bookings: book.r1pe@gmail.com
Release, remix requests, and promos: maxxpolymeric@hotmail.co.uk

Having cut his cloth in the London underground party scene, Maxx quickly cemented his reputation as a technically accomplished DJ with an ear for quality, genre-transcending techno. He then went on to headline and play parties in most of the major cities around the World. From New York to Moscow, Berlin, Chicago, Stockholm, Madrid, Rome, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Prague, Bordeaux, Sofia, Bucharest, and many, many more…

A formally trained piano player, and with a diploma in Music Technology and Sound Engineering, Maxx runs his own labels Polymeric Records, Modular Soul, and T Sessions, and co-runs Astral Tech with old friend P.I.N.O. Lopez. He also co-founded and co-run Carbon Audio label in Austria with Rene Reiter for 6 years between 2009 and 2014, and worked as label manager for Molecular Recordings for 10 years between 2014 and 2024. Most of these these labels are available on vinyl, as MAXX is still making a point of supporting the media from time to time, by playing vinyl at his gigs, whenever possible.

After moving to London from Italy, where he was born, MAXX has released over 200 tracks, including vinyl releases on Polymeric, Primate, Involve, Cluster, Stay Up Forever, Suspected, Physical, Interruption, Berlin Invasion, Carbon Audio, Guild, Generator UK, Killawatts, Open Source, Techno Sessions, Interstate One, Interstate Colour, Techno Vinyls Records, Toolbox Killerz, and Reborn UK, collaborating along the way with many great artists, like Orlando Voorn, Chris Liberator and Pounding Grooves. His work has also been remixed by some great Techno producers, like Steve Stoll, Orlando Voorn, DJ ESP aka Woody McBride, Jam El Mar from Jam & Spoon, Nihil Young, Dolby D, and Subject One, to name a few.

MAXX productions are played and supported by many great DJs around the World: Carl Cox, Dave Clarke, Amelie Lens, Richie Hawtin, Umek, Paco Osuna, Alan Fitzpatrick, Marco Bailey, Ben Sims, Slam, Dax J, Boris, Joseph Capriati, I Hate Models, Pan-Pot, Kobosil, Regal, Anfisa Letyago, SHDW & Obscure Shape, Randomer, Nur Jaber, Eddie Halliwell, Claude VonStroke, Thomas P Heckman, Luigi Madonna, Anderson Noise, Frazi.er, Dr Motte, just to mention a few who play his tracks out in clubs, podcasts, or live radio shows.

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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