Mekki Martin is a professional DJ, producer and a resident DJ in the Tabarin Club in Brno, one of the most popular Czech clubs with a 31 year old history. 

The beginnings of his career go back to his "birth" as he grew up in the music club environment. He fell in love with DJing when he was just eight, gave up all sports and started to spend hours behind the mixing desk at clubs, playing hours on end as well as playing at children's parties. At fourteen he had is first public appearance as a DJ and soon after he became a resident DJ in Tabarin. 

Martin's tireless hard work and creative spirit changed the club's music scene and helped place Tabarin among DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs this year. Martin's sets are often up to twelve hours long as Tabarin opens 10pm to 10am and often even longer. He is also very involved with selecting and organizing guest DJs for the club. 

In 2008 Martin's talent got noticed abroad and has been traveling since to USA, Sweden, Slovakia, Austria, Spain and especially to Ibiza, which he fell in love with. 

This spring Martin performed at the WMC in Miami at the 'Welcome 2 Miami' closing party on Nikki Beach with Roger Sanchez as a headliner and other DJs such as Armand Pena, DJ Scaloni and Plastik Funk. Definitely the most exciting and inspiring experience for Martin this year.

Another great experience for Martin was playing at the end of 

At the end of summer Martin started organizing his own boat parties using the trademark name as for his resident nights 'House 4U'. 

In 2011 Matin started cooperating with DJ Federico Scavo and in 2012 Martin started to work closely with DJs such as Maurizio Gubellini, Stefano Pain, Lissat & Voltaxx, Armand Pena, Alex Kenji, Plastik Funk, The Delayers, Manuel De La Mare, Jesse Vorn, and many others. 

In 2012 he also had three successful tracks with great remixes released on top labels. 'Kiss me' Tiger Records, 'Best Mistake' Starlight Records and 'Deeper & Higher' Ego Records. 

'Deeper & Higher' was remixed brilliantly by Federico Scavo 

For several weeks Roger Sanchez featured the track on his regular radio and it got a lot of support from Abel Ramoz, CrazIbiza, Daddy's Grove, DJ Dan, Freemasons, Funkagenda, Fuzzy Hair, Ian Carey, Kaskade, Matisse & Sadko, Paul Oakenfold, Ralph Good, Robbie Rivera, Seamus Hajl, StoneBridge, Syke'N'Sugarstarr, Wally Lopez. 

Martin continues his cooperation with Ego Records this year releasing his brand new track 'Kilimanjaro' there together with Sean Finn and Maurizio Gubellini remixes. 
Interestingly Maurizio Gubellini made his remix of 'Kilimanjaro' at the same time he was working on a remix for David Guetta. 
Kilimanjaro made it onto Ego's compilation 'I Love Ego Step 20'. 

Martin's track 'The Funk' with Tom Novy remix featured on the 'Nature One Compilation', is the start of a new promising cooperation with Tom Novy and Christopher Trucher. The track was followed by a collaboration track 'Feel it' released in summer. Both tracks were released on Nouveau Niveau Records. At the moment Tom and Martin are preparing another collaboration track.

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When Hell launched his International Deejay Gigolos Empire in 1996, his rebellious creative streak gave the label a punk DIY aesthetic. An open-ended techno imprint with a natural pop sensibility, Gigolo immediately stood out and attracted like-minded artists such as Fischerspooner, Vitalic, Miss Kittin and the Hacker, Tiga, even the Pet Shop Boys, Jeff Mills and Dopplereffekt. Today, Gigolo in Berlin is to Hell what the Factory in New York was to Warhol.

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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