VNTM is an Amsterdam based live act and musician that has been playing his take on techno at numerous big festivals around the globe, appearing with his machines and only playing out his own material.

His infamous Mindscape nights currently residing at one of Amsterdam’s most vibrant clubs Lofi have seen him invite a multitude of international superstars such as Len Faki, Kangding Ray, Sterac, Ame, Recondite, Polygonia, Luigi Tozzi, Vril and many more. 

Some recent key-shows include his debut on the Awakenings Festival Mainstage, an all-night-long liveset at Lofi Amsterdam, Tomorrowland Afterlife. 


Promo's: promos@vntm.live
Bookings: niels@meanwhile.nl

DJ Daddy Trance 

Booking Requests:
maria.may@caa.com
jennifer.hammel@caa.com

All other Requests: 
bastian@invisiblehand.agency

@slashlabel 
@spielraum-amsterdam resident 

mgmt: sarah@goodlife-management.com
bookings: kikitours@teamwass.com

@agriotracks label head + 1/3 of TLM Airlines
For bookings please contact atif@meanwhile.nl

2025:
17.01 Club Corazon, Uluwatu
31.01 Club Corazon, Uluwatu
03.02 Metto Monday, Canggu
14.02 Agrio Club, Melbourne (b2b Kyle Starkey)
15.02 Need2Freak, Gold Coast
16.02 Lost Sundays, Sydney (b2b Kyle Starkey)
21.02 Glamorama, Melbourne
22.02 Side by Side, Adelaide (b2b Bella Claxton)
23.02 Captain, Geelong (b2b Bella Claxton)
08.03 Soenda, Utrecht 🛩️
15.03 Pip, Den Haag
21.03 Malasana, Madrid
28.03 La Java, Paris
12.04 Agrio Club @ Lofi, Amsterdam
19.04 Zonnewende, Antwerp
26.04 Bibi, Amsterdam (b2b Paige Tomlinson)
26.04 Oranjebitter, Rotterdam
30.04 Draugai Draugams, Vilnius
05.05 KopjeK, Groningen
11.05 Agrio Club @ Colorado Charlie, Den Haag
18.05 ELSE Club, Berlin
30.05 Wibar, Leiden
31.05 Soenda Festival, Utrecht 🛩️
01.06 Woodstock, Bloemendaal
07.06 The Crave, Den Haag
14.06 Agrio Club @ Lofi, Amsterdam
27.06 Lijm & Cultuur, Delft
11.07 Wildeburg, Kraggenburg
12.07 Park Kronenburg, Nijmegen
12.07 Fuse, Brussels
19.07 Indigo, Scheveningen
26.07 Orbit, Utrecht
26.07 No Art, Amsterdam 🛩️
10.08 Thuishaven 10 hours, Amsterdam
15.08 L'Escalier Club, Saint Malo
23.08 Modular Open Air, Rotterdam 🛩️
29.08 Onder de Radar, Enschede
29.08 ODR After, Enschede
30.08 Het Nest, Nijmegen
30.08 ZeeZout, Amsterdam
19.09 The Warehouse, Leeds
25.09 Oude Markt, Leuven
26.09 Overbruggen, Antwerpen (b2b Dart)
27.09 House of Wonders, Tilburg
27.09 International Theatre, Amsterdam 🛩️
02.10 Kiki Club, Leiden
10.10 Chevry x FVTVR, Paris
11.10 Spectra, Liège
17.10 Forza, Nijmegen
22.10 Audio Obscura ADE Opening, Amsterdam
24.10 Burst ADE, Amsterdam 🛩️
25.10 Agrio Club ADE @ Lofi, Amsterdam
26.10 ZeeZout ADE, Amsterdam (b2b Sam Alfred)
08.11 Mondo, Madrid
11.11 Macadam, Nantes -> postponed to 08.05
13.11 Boiler Room, Amsterdam
15.11 Modular, Rotterdam
21.11 Herfstdrift, Nijmegen 🛩️
22.11 Soenda indoor, Utrecht (b2b Kyle Starkey)
22.11 FYM, Groningen (b2b Kyle Starkey)
29.11 OHM, Delft (b2b Kyle Starkey)
13.12 Soundset Sessions, Barcelona
28.12 Overdrive, Utrecht 🛩️
01.01 Tjade & Friends Thuishaven, Amsterdam

🛩️ = TLM Airlines

2024:
19.01 Nerve, Melbourne
20.01 Bloom, Geelong
20.01 Xe54, Melbourne
27.01 The Vault, Perth
02.01 Potato Headstream, Bali
03.01 La Brisa, Bali
16.01 Tivoli, Utrecht 🛩️
23.01 Oosterpoort, Groningen 🛩️
24.01 Holy Moly, Breda
01.03 013, Tilburg 🛩️
09.03 Amp, Munster
15.03 Paradiso, Amsterdam 🛩️
16.03 Draugai Draugams, Vilnius 🛩️
22.03 Toffler, Rotterdam
23.03 3FM Radio, Hilversum 🛩️
28.03 Doornroosje, Nijmegen 🛩️
30.03 La Belle, Edinburgh
31.03 DGTL Festival, Amsterdam 🛩️
07.04 Newtrack, Paris
12.04 Agrio Club @ Lofi, Amsterdam
13.04 Fri-Son, Fribourg
26.04 De Reactie, Enschede
26.04 Basis, Utrecht
27.04 'T Zoet, Breda
27.04 LL van Oranje, Amsterdam (b2b Benwal)
04.05 Le Phare, Brussels
09.05 Subcultuur, Nijmegen
09.05 Tutto Passa, Tilburg
18.05 Marvellous Island, Paris
25.05 Soenda Festival, Utrecht
31.05 Dauwpop, Hellendoorn
01.06 Agrio Club @ AOA, Amsterdam
08.06 Ohm Festival, Delft
08.06 Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek
15.06 Bosburcht, Baarlo
16.06 Woodstock, Bloemendaal
23.06 Agrio Club @ Lofi, Amsterdam
30.06 Ploegendienst Festival, Breda
05.07 Down The Rabbit Hole, Ewijk 🛩️
06.07 Newtrack, Paris
07.07 Colorado Charlie, Den Haag
08.07 - 19.07 Holiday :)
20.07 🤫, ???
28.07 Thuishaven 10 Hours, Amsterdam
02.08 PNNY x Da Maria, Bali
10.08 Blijdorp, Rotterdam
30.08 Indigo, Scheveningen
31.08 Paperclip, Eersel
31.08 Onder de Radar, Enschede
07.09 Crammerock, Stekene
14.09 Lofi, Amsterdam 🛩️
21.09 Into The Woods, Amersfoort
28.09 WAS, Utrecht
02.10 Leiden Ontzet, Leiden
19.10 Agrio Club ADE @ Lofi, Amsterdam
20.10 Skatecafe ADE, Amsterdam 🛩️
25.10 Hygge, Den Bosch
01.11 Agrio Club @ Subcultuur, Nijmegen
02.11 Studio Club, Malaga
09.11 Modular, Rotterdam 🛩️
07.12 Agrio Club, Amsterdam
13.12 Amigo Amigo, Ghent
28.12 KopjeK 15yrs, Groningen (b2b Benwal)
31.12 Overbruggen, Amsterdam
31.12 Indigo NYE, Den Haag

2023:
01.01 Subcultuur, Nijmegen
01.01 WAS, Utrecht
01.01 NAR, Utrecht
21.01 Draugai Draugams, Vilnius
26.01 Private, Amsterdam
28.01 Nikola, Ljubljana
03.02 Ploegendienst, Breda
11.02 Atelier, Amsterdam
25.02 Lofi, Amsterdam
25.02 Soenda, Utrecht
03.03 KopjeK, Groningen
10.03 Skatecafe, Amsterdam
11.03 On9gekend, Amersfoort
19.03 Loft, Amsterdam
08.04 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
08.04 Bloemerbar, Nijmegen
22.04 Club Sams, Bielefeld
26.04 EKKO, Utrecht
26.04 Parallel, Amsterdam
27.04 Oranjekade, Den Bosch
27.04 Cartel, Amsterdam
05.05 Bevrijdingsfestival, Groningen
13.05 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
18.05 Tutto Passa, Tilburg
18.05 Lofi, Amsterdam
25.05 Private, Amsterdam
28.05 Woodstock, Bloemendaal
02.06 Opium Club, Vilnius
03.06 909 Festival, Amstelveen
08.06 Badaboum, Paris
10.06 Veerplas Festival, Haarlem
16.06 Lofi, Amsterdam
24.06 Pip, Den Haag
30.06 Lago Lago Festival, Braamt
01.07 Ministry of Pride, London
02.07 Ploegendienst, Breda (b2b Marlon Hoffstadt)
07.07 Wildeburg, Kraggenburg
08.07 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
08.07 Dijkpop, Andijk
09.07 - 21.07 Holiday :)
22.07 Ca Va Festival, Auxon
29.07 Paradisco Festival, Knokke
01.08 Tba, Delft
06.08 Fest Noise, Dinan
13.08 Thuishaven, Amsterdam
26.08 Duikboot, Breda
26.08 Onder de Radar, Enschede
01.09 Draugai Draugams, Vilnius
09.09 Tba, Utrecht
15.09 Private
16.09 Into The Woods, Amersfoort
23.09 Woodstock x Houtbaar, Haarlem
30.09 Indigo, Scheveningen
13.10 Concorde Atlantique, Paris
14.10 Monument Festival, Dordrecht
20.10 Thuishaven ADE, Amsterdam
21.10 Into The Woods ADE, Amsterdam
22.10 Skatecafe ADE, Amsterdam
27.10 Chinastraat, Ghent
28.10 Pixl, Eindhoven
10.11 013, Tilburg
18.11 Kasteel de Berckt, Baarlo
30.11 Kompass, Ghent
01.12 Lofi, Amsterdam
02.12 Club KopjeK, Groningen
08.12 Le Quartier Libre de Rouen, Rouen
21.12 Tivoli, Utrecht
30.12 Complex, Maastricht
31.12 STRND, Breda (nighttime)
01.01 Thuishaven, Amsterdam (daytime)

Bookings worldwide:
marco@futurism.agency
Management:
management@adriatique.ch

The Odd One Out. 

ANTI 02: https://www.oddone.info/ANTI02

ANTI 01: https://www.oddone.info/ANTI01

Somebody To Love: https://www.oddone.info/SomebodyToLove

Odd Ones V3: https://www.oddone.info/oov3

MGMT: adam@jet-mgmt.com & sam@jet-mgmt.com

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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