Italian Dj & Producer based in Barcelona

VISYØN

His productions has been released on most label like:
ElRow Music,Hottrax, Viva Music, 303Lovers, Rawthentic ,Deeperfect,Lapsus, Under No Illusion, Witty Tunes, Be One just to name a few.
His tracks have been played by international djs like: Marco Carola - Paco Osuna  - Richie Hawtin - Joseph Capriati - Jamie Jones - Roger Sanchez - Stacey Pullen - Steve Lawler - Loco Dice - Patrick Topping - Nicole Moudaber - Matthias Tanzmann - Steve Lawler - Nic Fanciulli and many many others.
He has played in cities like: Athens,Arad (Romani) ,Palencia
(Spain), Ibiza ,Lecco,Dusseldorf,Milano,Napoli,London,Wrexham (Wales),Barcelona and others In a parties with: Nicole Moudaber - Yaya - Tania Vulcano - Cari Lekebusch - Florian Meindl - Marco Faraone and others..

We work all night and day, but please contact us via mail:
falko(äht)monaberry(dot)de

If you like to send some music ... send downloadable Soundcloud links here:
demos(äht)monaberry(dot)de

Ryan Stephens's Upcoming Gigs
Sat 27 Aug, 16 
Wapelbeats w/ DIRTY DOERING, Wapelbad, Gütersloh, Germany

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„Just Dance“ – nicht mehr und nicht weniger ist das Ziel von Ryan, der mit seinen ansteckenden DJ-Sets Leben in jeden Clubgänger bringt. Seine ambitionierten Tracks aus Deep, Tech-House und Techno halten jedes Clubpublikum garantiert bis zum Frühstück bei Laune. Und das seit 2007 in sämtlichen Clubs der Osnabrücker Szene & Umgebung.

Aber nur hinter den Decks zu stehen, reicht Ryan nicht. Als Veranstalter der schon legendären Veranstaltungsreihen „SOUNDBOUTIQUE“ oder „OFFLINE“ lockt er regelmäßig internationale Größen wie ANDHIM, FORMAT:B oder PAN-POT in die Region.  Als ehemaliger Artist- und Tour-Manager von ROBIN SCHULZ war er nicht nur weltweit unterwegs, sondern ist auch international top vernetzt.

DJ, Booker, Artist-, Tour- & Event-Manager – Ryan Stephens ist echter Allrounder im Bereich der elektronischen Musik. Seine Homebase, die Agentur SOUNDBOUTIQUE ENTERTAINMENT, bildet dabei das professionelle Rückgrat aller Projekte. Und sorgt dafür, dass den Tanzwütigen der Region niemals langweilig wird.



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"Just Dance" - no more and no less is Ryan's intention whose catchy DJ sets bring life into any club-goer. His ambitious Deep, Tech-House und Techno tracks have been keeping each audience in a good mood till breakfast since 2005 in all clubs of the Osnabrück scene. 

But only standing behind the decks isn't enough for Ryan. As the organizer of the almost legendary "SOUNDBOUTIQUE" or the "OFFLINE", he regularly gets international figures such as ANDHIM, FORMAT:B or PAN-POT to come and appear in the region. As the former artist and tour manager of ROBIN SCHULZ, he was not only on the move worldwide but also has a perfectly established international network.
 
DJ, Booker, Artist-, Tour- & Event-Manager – Ryan Stephens is a real all-rounder in the field of electronic music. His homebase, the SOUNDBOUTIQUE ENTERTAINMENT Agency, is the professional backbone of all projects. And it makes sure that the dance freaks in the region never get bored.


ANTS showcases the authentic sound of Ibiza on the island and around the world. ANTS curates future-facing lineups championing rising talent, genre innovators and established stars from across house, tech house, techno and more. 

Enjoy DJ mixes recorded live from our long-running Saturday residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza, and ANTS takeovers at the biggest festivals and events in electronic music. Join The Colony.

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


''Imagination'' is out now! 🙏🏻
fk.fanlink.to/imagination

There is no doubt, artists generate – especially in our scene - hypes occur again and again. Be it a good track or an unforgettable DJ-Set. However, these come and go as quickly as they have emerged. And there is also something happening in this scene, which is quite apparent: It happens relatively fast. In Germany, the motherland of the electronic music, an artist has seldom managed to infringe at the same time upon such widely spread generations and masses. It is not by coincidence, that ideas like „German Techno Master“ (DJ Mag) or countless first grade placings originate in the process of the scene votings. Meanwhile one can also hardly keep up counting his fanclubs, who welcome him with frenetic exultation spreading across the entire republic and far beyond.

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Few labels have established themselves as solidly and definitively as Matthias Tanzmann and André Quaas’ Moon Harbour. Since the turn of the millennium it has been a bastion of deep and tech house quality that has not moved with the times, but has defined them ahead of trend. Through a carefully curated series of EPs and LPs, the label has fomented its own close-knit family that expands and contracts with careful consideration.

Damian Lazarus - DJ, Producer and creator of Crosstown Rebels, Day Zero, Get Lost and many other wonderful things

RYAN STEPHENS is following