01.01.16  3 Tage wach  - Frankfurt
09.01.16  Nuklear Area new years rave - Mainz
05.02.16  4 Jahre Klangspektakel - Westerburg
07.02.16  Nuklear Area 12h Faschingsrave -  Mainz
26.02.16  Nuklear Area Labelnight 2 - Mainz
16.04.16 Techno-Rebellen meets elektronic-underground.fm  Darmstadt
14.05.16 Halt die Fresse lass mich feiern 1.0 - Kontext Wiesbaden
17.06.16 Halt die Fresse lass mich feiern 2.0 - Kontext Wiesbaden
19.08.16  Into Madness - Kontext Wiesbaden
02.09.16 Lautstark gegen Rechts - Tanzhaus West Frankkfurt
16.09.16 VR-Podcast
16.09.16 Wir reisen aus - Nachtleben Frankfurt
26.10.16 Klangkunst - Circus Frankfurt
31.10.16 Nuklear Area Halloween Edition - Mainz
11.11.16 Hard Force United - Moskau
19.11.16 endlich wach - Elterabend - Bunker Frankfurt
17.12.16 Klang Sensation  - Gambi Bad Homburg
25.12.16 Weihnachtsrave xxl - Sektor 7 Düsseldorf
31.12.16 Techno-Rebellen Apocalypse - Kontext Wiesbaden 
01.01.17 35h out of space u60 meets 3 tage wach - Velvet Frankfurt
24.02.17 Nuklear Area Faschingsrave - Mainz
26.02.17 32h Superclub/ a laaf techno - Technodisko Wetzlar

DJ /Producer aus dem Großraum Stuttgart. 

Founder/CEO ||  BlackForest Records! 

Bisherige Releases :

°Schallinterferenz Records (Germany) 
°THR Records (Slovenia) 
°Ravenous (Germany) 
°Alienator Records (Japan) 
°Masters of Techno (Germany) 


Resident DJ || Schallinterferenz Records 
Resident DJ || Beastmode



Latest Gigs:
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01.02.2019  Subraum@ Indiego Glocksee II Hannover

20.09.2019 Digital Destruction Labelnight@ Club Z im Zimmermanns II Cologne

04.01.2020  Digital Destruction pres. The Dark Chapter @Studio56 II Koblenz

31.07.2021   Let the Beast Return @BlackStone || Worms

Cologne based Techno Dj & enthusiast :)
Founder & Resident DJ for Sons of Techno

Booking: flavsot15@gmail.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


Founder of soundcloud.com/inbalanceberlin

Berlin-based Schicktanz is a DJ, producer, label head, and event organiser driven by a deep passion for sound and storytelling. With no barriers to his inspiration, he thrives in the creative process, always shaping his music to reflect his experiences and vision.

Over the years, he has explored a range of sounds, drawing constant inspiration from the clubs and events of his hometown, Berlin. His style is defined by hypnotic textures, playful synth lines, percussive grooves, and deep kick drums, all seamlessly layered with his distinctive fast yet organic mixing technique - keeping the energy flowing on the dancefloor.

Booking: lasse@volute-agency.com

Owner by   ►TechnoMusic 4 live productions and   ►Böser Trip Rec

Booking : joran@wartiste.com
Management : matt@kidding-aside.com
Presave 'Invisible' : https://nto.backl.ink/invisible
The story behind NTO started with a match made in heaven, a kid from the South of France always hooked to his guitar, and electronic and dance music. After going to the Sziget Festival when he was 18, NTO started to hang out regularly at La Villa Rouge, and Bar Live, two legendary clubs in the South of France. At the time, German minimal techno music was booming and Anthony Favier would spend his nights listening to Stephan Bodzin, James Holden, or the very beginnings of Paul Kalkbrenner: "My biggest music crush of all time”. The evocative power of music, strong kicks and the unifying atmosphere of dancefloors: this is the triple focus that will inspire him to create and produce music without going through the usually mandatory DJ phase.

The story behind NTO is also about his friendship with Worakls and Joachim Pastor, with whom he created Hungry Music in 2013. Performing together on the Olympia’s stage to the Vieilles Charrues Festival, they learned to master the stage, and seduced a new generation that would follow them faithfully from this moment on. Thanks to his hits "Trauma" and "La clé des champs", which account for several millions of streams on DSPs, NTO's career took off internationally: from The Netherlands, to Germany, to Eastern Europe to Canada...  

Today, NTO is about to start a new chapter of his career. With deep basses and lysergic harmonies, he filters different layers of his melodies to make them sparkle even more, just as if they emerged from the water after hitting rock bottom. NTO is currently working on his first album.

All social links : https://lnk.to/worakls/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/worakls.music/
Booking : booking@dancecode.fr

Author, composer, performer and conductor of his own orchestra, Worakls is a modern artist.
Although trained in classical music, he quickly gained recognition through his fusion of classical music and electronic tones thanks to which he meets his first successes as an artist, but also as the founder of the labels Hungry Music and Sonate Records. 

Worakls brings a unique and modern sound signature to his music by mixing in his influences (mainly classical, rock and electro). Powerful orchestrations, stirring melodies and dreamy sounds are distinctive features of Worakls’ music. On stage, he conducts his own orchestra, the “Worakls Orchestra” with which he plays his music in the biggest venues in Europe for a show that’s as beautiful to see as it is to hear.

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