KARL JEFFERSON

Inescapable DJ and active representative of the French electronic scene since 1997. Founder in 2002 of Progress Events, it is one of the only French DJ to work in association with labels of Progressive House [Sumsonic, Mechanism, Swift records, Yoshitoshi] for famous Progress Parties. Karl jefferson knew how to be imperative by his artistic qualities, his musical choices, his contact with the public but especially later of numerous residence in postpone Parisian clubs from the age of 17 years.
His music, festive, groovy, sexy, tribal and progressive is a unique journey. Winter, 2005, Island of Reunion with Darren Price and Mika for an Open Air Inoubliable in bit tropical in front of 2000 persons. The summer, 2005 will be for him the revelation to Ibiza, during his DJ-SETS for the private HIFREE events, El Ayoun and Penelope. Autumn, 2005 he take up his agency événementiel [Kimbernyprod] and becomes promoters and dj resident of the evenings Just House [Joachim Garraud, Sandy Rivera, John Acquaviva, Paul Heron, Laurent Wolf.] Winter, 2006, departure for China for a tour of the clubs of Peking where his artistic expression is appreciated in every passages on this new continent...
After the summer, 2006 when he mixes in several private places in Ibiza, he went Latin America with Brazil for a tour of 15 days with DJ Deff Skual. Booking to the club D-EDGE / Sao Paulo, [4th better club of the World according to Mixmag] for 2 years of the evening Mooving. Then Open Air in front of more than 4000 persons is linked enormous 2 to finish in Galeon Club Beach Cambury.
Of return in France for some months the projects of production finalize in association with Yann Solo [Evasive records, New Era recordings and Hoshi Rec, Beatport] . In hardly 31years,karl jefferson confirms his experience in the biggest clubs of the world beside the best DJ / French and international Producers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Residencies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just House Elysée Montmartre & Studio 287 Paris Cabaret By Night Studio 287 Paris Just Obsession Barramundi Paris Egoiste Party Vinyl Paris Inner Affair Beijing - China
W HOTEL wahm lounge - QATAR,doha
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent International Shows --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRASIL  D-EDGE, 
Messina Guruja Carnaval SIRIUS ONE CLUB @AMPARO NEXXT LOUNGE Sao Paulo  Caraguatatuba, Ubatuba  ..CHIN A Inner Affair  Beijing  ...MIAMI WMC 2008 / 2009 Catalina Hotel  Ocean Ten ..  LOS ANGELES  ECCO LOUNGE HOLLYWOOD..  SWITZERLAND  Duplex Lounge .. Geneva  MAD  Lausanne ..  GERMANY Sage Club  Berlin  ..IBIZA  Hi-Free Private Party.. EL AYOUN.. Penelope..  PARIS  Solydays Festival, Techno Parade & Gay Pride..   H2O Tournai -Belgium 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Residencies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuit blanche best party of the year Gibus Club @ Paris 1999 The best of dj history party with radio FG Folie's Pigalle @ Paris 2000/2002 Progress Parties / Since House @ Vogue Club. 2004/2006 Resident French Connexion @ Miami WMC 2008 / 2009
----------------------- Futur gigs -----------------------  Brazil, Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Mauritius Island, China, Greece, UK, Réunion Island
----------------------- Radio -----------------------  Plans are afoot to re-launch the monthly Progress radio show some time in early 2006 : Web radios in France WAF radio ,SEXY RADIO----------------------- 
DJ KARL has played with -----------------------  John Acquaviva, Sandy Rivera, Joachim Garraud, Martin Solveig, Kenny Hawkes, G-Pal & Anna Maria x, Trevor Rockliffe, DJ Pierre, Danny Buddha Morales, John Graham, Jamie Anderson, DJ Jes, The Youngster, Hector Romero, Nathan Coles, Mike Grant, E-Smoove , Asad Rizvi, Fred Nasen, Joesky , Inland Knight, Pure Science, DJ Q , Onionz&Master D, Paul Rogers, Chris Gainer, David Maltesse Freddy, Djul'z, Charles Schillings, Didier Sinclair, Antoine Clamaran, Laurent Wolf, Jackson Lee, Stephane Pompougnac....
 TRACKS AVAILABLE ON BEATPORT NEW ERA REC, MOXI REc,TEMPOVERDE REC,JUNO  ...SITE WEB COM/karljefferson.com,
www.myspace.com/djkarljefferson 


Founder: @upthestuss
Alias: @acrossboundaries

Bookings & Management: nick@meanwhile.nl

Bandcamp:
https://chrisstussy.bandcamp.com

Resident Advisor: 
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/chrisstussy

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


MANAGEMENT
phil@threesixzero.com
mm@threesixzero.com

BOOKING
WW (excl. North & South America): 
dave.blackgrove@teamwass.com
North & South America: 
bshprits@teamwass.com

Booking: 
World: dc@temporary-secretary.net
NA/SA: https://www.cohenshi.com/artist/jimi-jules/

10 weeks, 10 songs, 10 cities
https://linktr.ee/Fredagain

Listen to my new track 'Velvet & Ice': https://selectedbase.lnk.to/velvetice

Ferreck Dawn is all about the drums. They have to be heavy and physical to get his dance floors full, while the vocal details bring the all-important heart and soul. After 20 years in the game, this signature sound is what the Dutchman is recognised for around the world. It has taken him to every major club and festival, to labels like Defected, Repopulate Mars and Club Sweat and to the Beatport number 1 spot a number of times. 

"I like to please everybody on the dance floor," he says of this mix of the visceral and more emotional. Whether using original vocalists or digging deep for a sample, it is the melody, soul and texture of the human voice rather than the words that Ferreck is drawn to. And it has been this way since his international breakout tune in 2014: 'Love Too Deep,' with his friend Redondo, got signed to Spinnin Records, made the daytime playlist on BBC Radio One and led Ferreck to quit his job and pursue music full time. 

His early tunes soon got support from the likes of Carl Cox, Luciano and Green Velvet, and another milestone came with 'In Arms' on Defected in 2018. It became one of the most played tracks of the Ibiza season, reached the overall number 1 on Beatport and gathered over 70 million streams. In 2021, he repeated the trick of serving up a sizzling summer anthem and Beatport chart-topper with 'Back Tomorrow' together with UK powerhouse singer Jem Cooke, again on Defected. As with many of his tunes, global radio support and high-profile DJ plays helped make it a modern classic.

Part of the reason Ferreck remains a chart-topping producer after nearly 20 years is his ability to do it all. He searches out interesting collaborators from different sub-genres to mix it up and find new inspirations. Whether it's David Guetta's house alias Jack Back, 'The Void' with Lee Foss, 'My Own Way' with A-Trak and Lord, he never stops evolving. Of course, the best in the scene also come calling for the famous Ferreck sound: he has remixed an a-list of artists including Diplo, Tiesto, Martin Garrix, Vintage Culture, Claptone, Oliver Heldens and many more. 

Ferreck traces his love of chunky bottom ends back to his earliest experiences of dance music. Growing up in the Netherlands, he was surrounded by gabba and hardcore. It swept him up and defined his early years as DJ Dusk. But the often high tempos and impenetrable grooves proved to be a creative dead end for him once he began producing. He had more to say and was keen to explore a wider array of moods and grooves so added a stylized version of his own first name, Freek, and flipped Dusk to Dawn. He gravitated towards a unique mix of powerful techno drums and emotional house vocals and Ferreck Dawn was born. 

As a DJ now, he understands people want to hear the signature Ferreck sound. So in the booth, he balances his own productions with tracks that speak most to him, as well as some carefully chosen classics and future gems. This means he is able to smash out a high-impact 90-minute festival set at Extrema Outdoor, but also go deeper and play all night long at cult clubs like London's Fabric, and everywhere in between.

Fresh off the back of his first solo tour of the US, Ferreck has a wealth of new music coming with Meduza, Vintage Culture, Dom Dolla and Izzy Bizu. "If I won't play it, I won't release it," he says, "and I stand by that 200%." It is that quality control that has kept him at the top of his game for almost 20 years. 

MGMT: dmc@purplewall.com / lucas@purplewall.com
Bookings: 
Worldwide: harrison@activetalentagency.com
North & South America: charlie@spinartistagency.com
Benelux: maurits@peoplesagency.nl

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Kataya:
2O25____
31. O1.  - Ritter Butzke, Berlin
O1.O2.  - Hafenklang, Hamburg
O7.O2. - Ms Treue, Bremen
14.O2. - Station Endlos, Halle
22.O2. - Bambule, Cassiopeia
02.03.  - Karneval der Kolleltive, Köln
O7.O3.  - Lila Miezen, Nürnberg
O8.O3.  - Licious, Kater Blau
23.O3. - Sonntagstratsch, Leipzig
3O.O3. - Openair, Berlin
O4.O4. - Klaus, Zürich
O6.O4. - SISYPHOS Debut 
18.O4.  - Liminal Transmissions, Kater Blau
19.O4. - Fete de l'amour, Humboldthain
O3.O5. - Disco, Spa & Beauty Rave
O8.O5. - Beate Uwe as PAPAYA 
1O.O5.  - as blossmbae, Irgendwo Opening b2b 5Eurogoldie, Bremen
17.O5. - A100 Wegbassen DEMO, Berlin
24.05. - Clubtopia, Berlin
29.O5.  - About Feminismus, About blank
31.O5. - Ritter Butzke
O7.O6.  - Skalar Festival
08.06. - Candylicious, Lokschuppen
18.O6. - Dualism, Lokschuppen
O5.O7. - Renate
12.07. - Fäncy Ferienlager Festival
18.O7. - Nektar Festival
26.O7. - Klaus, Zürich
31.O7.  - Prärie Festival
O8.O8. - Ritter Butzke
22.O8. - Beschwörung der Kuriositäten, Berlin
27.O9. - Bambule, Berlin
O3.1O -  Rebellion der Träumer, Renate
18.1O. -  A100 Wegbassen Demo, Berlin
12.12. -    Klaus, Zürich
20.12. -   TBA Special Event at ⛵️in Berlin

2O26
16.O1. - Klaus, Zürich
24.O1. - Bambule, Berlin
14.O2. - Kabinett der Kuriositäten, Frankfurt am Main
21.O2. -   Pinky Promise, Club Ost 
28.O2. -  Station Endlos Closing 
O7.O3. -  Licious, Kater Blau
14.O3. -   Studio Weißensee Stream
13.O3.  - Hala Odra, Szczescin PL

BLOSSMBAE:
O1.O1.    Kater Blau, Berlin
O1.O1.    BODIES, Berlin
24.O1.    Candylicious, ClubOst
14.O3.    VOID, Berlin
21.O3.    StromAusfall, Lokschuppen
22.O3.    Artheather, Köln
O2.O5.    Candyflip, Club OST
24.O5.     Sachsentrance, about blank
3O.O5.     Silikon,  Euphorik, Club Ost
13.O6.     Charles Bronson
20.06.      Hive Festival w/ ivana parti 
13.O7.      CoSy Festival b2b Ohohouzo
23.O7.     Signals, Lokschuppen
O1.O8.     Silikon, Lokschuppen
15.O8.      Bucht der Träumer Festival b2b Ohohouzo
20.08.      Pool Series, Hardcore Entertainment
23.08.      DUALISM Weekender with GOAT BALL, Sachsentrance, About Blank
23.O8.       Onlytr4nce Release Party, Lokschuppen
O4.O9.      Mystic Creatures Festival
O9.O9.       Sachsentrance Track Premiere Release
2O.O9.       Sachsentrance FLINTA Demo, Leipzig
2O.O9.       Neutrum, Lokschuppen
O3.1O.        Verknipt, Club Ost
O8.1O.        Signals w/ Ivana Parti 
11.1O.          Licious, Ritter Butzke
25.11.          Schwuz, Berlin
O4.11.          Sachsentrance Track Premiere 
O7.11.          Arttheater w/ Ivana Parti, Köln
O8.11.          Aeden, Berlin
22.11.          Lokschuppen b2b Bbymeister
O8.12.         Sachsentrance, Südpol
26.12.         Sachsentrance Podcast Release
27.12.         CUTE, Lokschuppen
31.12.         Bodies, Aeden
27.O2.       Candyflip, Lokschuppen

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Balsaal, Hamburg
Distillery, Leipzig
Extravaganza, ФУЗИОН Festival
Festsaal Kreuzberg
Feel Festival
Fundbüro, Hamburg
Garbicz Festival
Haupttresen, ФУЗИОН Festival
Institut für Zukunft
Irgendwo Bremen
John Reed Resident
Kater Blau
Karneval der Kulturen
Klunkerkranich
Mensch Meier
Mit Dir Festival
Moyn Moyn Festival
MS Treue Bremen
Neue Odessa Bar, Berlin
Odonien
Objekt A Klein
Panne Eichel, ФУЗИОН Festival
Prärie Festival
Rebellion der Träumer
Ritter Butzke
Sage Beach
Schroedingers
Station Endlos, Halle
Sternfest Festival
Sunshine Live Radio
Südpol
Süß war gestern
Tal der Verwirrung
Tarmac Festival
Watergate
Wilde Renate
Zugvögel Festival
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The Club M7, Barcelona
Am Bach Festival '21, Luzern
Am Bach Festival '23, Luzern
Tandadarei, Zürich
Turnhalle, Bern 
Fashion & Design Week 2023, Milano
Bosburcht Festival, Netherlands
Levenslang, Amsterdam
BRIXTON, Amsterdam
Apocalypse Party, Malta
Cheeseporn Festival, Lyon
Saturnia, Paris
Panic Room, Paris
Le Virage Club, Paris
Château Perché Festival, France
FLUCC, Vienna
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El Rio 
Hombre en Llamas Festival
Salon Amador, Medellin
BAUM, Bogotá 
Electronic Arts Festival
Pacifico Hostal 
El Dragon de Barranco,
Lima
La Playita Music Festival, Isla Fuerte
Espacio 1060, Cali
Mad Radio, Bogota
KLOCK Club, Medellín
Cocora Estudios, Armenia

House Music Artist, Italian-American DJ & Producer.

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