Label and Artist Page by AKA AKA from Berlin, Germany.

Booking & Promos: falscherhase@hoerverlesen.de

Ich mache Menschen mit Musik glücklich.

Hier könnte eine typische Biografie stehen. Ist aber nicht so. Ich habe keine Schallplattensammlung geerbt. Meine Eltern waren keine Musiker. Ich habe nie ein Instrument gespielt. Ich habe nie produziert. Ich habe kein Label. Ich habe keine Booking-Agentur. Ich bin kein DJ. Ich liebe Musik und empfehle sie weiter. Ich erzähle damit auch gerne eigene Geschichten. Musik sagt mehr als tausend Worte. Sie soll mich nicht reich machen. Und nicht berühmt. Nur glücklich. Das ist alles. Und das ist auch gut so.

★★★ Termine ★★★

31.12.2025 (MI) 806qm, Darmstadt

Tickets & Infos: https://linktr.ee/falscherhase

★★★ Auszug vergangener Highlights ★★★

3000Grad Festival, Feldberg
A.R.M., Kassel
Bahnwärter Thiel, München
Breidenbach Studios, Heidelberg
Castello Festival, Debrznica
Circle of Leaves Festival, Odenwald
Cocoon Club, Frankfurt am Main
Docks, Hamburg
Dora Brilliant, Frankfurt am Main
Douala, Ravensburg
Eulenflug Festival, Rothenburg
Fluc & Fluc Wanne, Wien
FREUD, Frankfurt
Fuchsbau Festival, Springe
Groovestation, Dresden
Habitat Festival, Hohenlockstedt
Hafen 49, Mannheim
Harry Klein, München
Heinz Gaul, Köln
Hive, Zürich
Hotel Shanghai, Essen
Ikarus Festival, Memmingen
Kabinett der Kuriositäten Open-Air, Offenbach am Main
Katzensprung Festival, Kerpen
Klunkerkranich, Berlin
komm schon Alter, Amsterdam
Kosmonaut, Berlin
Kowalski, Stuttgart
Kuddelmuddel Festival, Offenbach am Main
Kreisen Festival, Hamburg
Loft Club, Ludwigshafen
Love Family Park, Mainz
Magdalena, Berlin
Mauerpfeiffer, Saarbrücken
Moyn Festival, Oyten
MS Dockville Festival, Hamburg
Musikbunker, Aachen
Odonien, Köln
Pangea Festival, Pütniz
Paula, Dresden
Pratersauna, Wien
Rave on Snow Festival, Saalbach Hinterglemm
Reineke Fuchs, Köln
Revier, Zürich
Ritter Butzke, Berlin
Rocker33, Stuttgart
Rote Sonne, München
Rummelfest, Offenbach am Main
Rummels Bucht, Berlin
Silodom, Saarbrücken
Sisyphos, Berlin
Südpol, Hamburg
Station Endlos, Halle
Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt am Main
Time Warp, Mannheim
Tresor, Berlin
Übel & Gefährlich, Hamburg
Weidendamm, Hannover
Wilde Möhre Festival, Drebkau
Zuparken Festival, Kägsdorf

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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38-year old music producer/DJ from Osnabrück, Germany. I’ll let my music tell you the rest.

Management:
SDM
Stefan Dabruck Management
stefan@s-d-management.com
frank@s-d-management.com

Bookings:
World - CAA
Maria May
maria.may@caa.com
Jennifer Hammel
jennifer.hammel@caa.com

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