Based in Paris, Sound Pellegrino is the label started by TEKI LATEX and ORGASMIC in 2009. The label focuses on club sounds evolving at the fringe of House, Techno, Bass and un-named half time dance-music hybrids all tied together by a strong hip hop background. The spirit of the label is to bridge gaps between scenes geographically, musically and generation-wise. The catalog is provided by a vast community of like-minded artists from all over the globe, forming a rich and diverse worldwide bond.

Curated by renowned DJs and taste makers Orgasmic and Teki Latex (from pioneer electronic hip hop outfit TTC – Teki also happens to be one of the founders of Institubes), Sound Pellegrino has quickly established itself as one of the labels to reckon with, releasing singles by Zombie Disco Squad, Renaissance Man, Todd Edwards & Surkin, L-Vis 1990, Para One, G.Vump, Bok Bok & Tom Trago, Panteros666, Teeth, Maelstrom (amongst others) and generating interest by A-List DJs from all ends of the dance music spectrum such as Modeselektor, Hudson Mohawke, Boys Noize, Annie Mac, Diplo, A-Trak, Sinden, Pete Tong, Claude Vonstroke, Ivan Smagghe, Laurent Garnier, Chloé, Justin Martin, Agoria, Joakim to name a few.

Their vision is carried and complimented by the direction of label manager EMILE SHAHIDI (Institubes' deputy manager) who handles development of the label’s activities and brands as well as executive production on all releases. He is also the co-creator and co-editor in chief of its printed publication L’Annuel.

Orgasmic and Teki Latex, the two public faces of the label, unite to form the SOUND PELLEGRINO THERMAL TEAM and they are ready to take that movement to a club near you. Even though their teaming up behind the turntables dates from 2009, these two have known each other for about 20 years and have released countless collaborations. Going through various musical phases, they have always kept a will to explore forward-thinking dance music that will make the crowd go crazy without sounding stale and outdated.

Mixing ingredients from classic house, avant-garde beats, abrupt techno tools, body-exercising bass and carefully-picked rap & r&b gems, the Thermal Team’s display of 3-deck blending craftsmanship, their transversal selection of tracks from the past the present and the future of club music, and their instinctive crowd-adaptation abilities (devoid of vision-altering compromises) are the guarantee of what clubbers across the globe have been continuously calling “a hell of a good time and a crazy unique experience”. With a hundred mixes for the Sound Pellegrino Podcast under their belt, the A&R and helming of the 35 releases of Sound Pellegrino’s exemplary catalog and 3 EPs as Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, you can tell these guys know what they are doing.

Sound Pellegrino’s CROSSOVER SERIES is a collection of EPs where 2 artists from different countries, backgrounds, generations and/or scenes are brought together by Sound Pellegrino to collaborate on some tracks. So far Bambounou was paired with Joakim, Bok Bok with Tom Trago, and Todd Edwards with Surkin. Each time the result far surpassed our expectations, further establishing the Crossover Series as a strong cement between sounds and scenes, shaking up people’s expectations of what is compatible with what in the electronic music world.

EXPECT NO LESS is our new vinyl-only imprint, helmed by Orgasmic, set to release toolsets for DJs, secret weapons with the futuristic edge his fans know him for.

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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


TREMOR - THE NEW ALBUM - OUT NOW

https://danielavery.ffm.to/tremor

Revered producer and composer Daniel Avery returns with a new album and live show, his most ambitious works to date. Channelling every corner of his sound, Tremor is a bold and transportive body of work through euphoric shoegaze, submerged techno, ambient soundscape and industrial bliss. It remains unmistakably Avery, yet dramatically evolved.


With the album Avery has welcomed an inspiring cast of collaborators, including the likes of Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Walter Schreifels (Quicksand / Rival Schools), bdrmm, Julie Dawson (NewDad), yeule, Ellie, Art School Girlfriend, yunè pinku, and Cecile Believe. Each artist leaves their indelible mark, yet the record’s true power lies in the communal spirit at its core.

“This is a living and breathing collective,” says Avery. “Since the earliest recordings, Tremor felt like a studio in the sky, a space in time through which we could all pass as artists”, he reflects. “It’s the welcoming spirit of acid house with the doors flung open wider still to allow in every influence from my musical journey: the warmth of distortion, the stillness inside intensity, the transcendental beauty of noise... They have always been there in my music but now it feels like those ideas are being transmitted in Technicolor. This is a record for the post-rave comedown kids, the guitar heads and anyone else who wants to come along for the ride. Everyone is welcome.”

Tremor will be released by Avery’s new home of Domino on 31st October.

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15 Nov 17
"YETPA" all night long @ 1999

14 Nov 17
"Mounia" @ Chez Moune w/ Neet

5 Aug 17
"On Air" @ Radioactive, Greece

22 July 17
"Mars" @ Marseille

7 July 17
"ITV" @ Badaboum w/ Kornel Kovacs

5 June 17
"Cheers" @ Communion w/ Celine Sundae

11 May 17
"Posey" @ Grand Rivage w / Pain Surprises

21 April 17
"Aquarium" @ Pain Surprises Party w/ Jacques, Polo & Pan

10 Feb 17
"Piiiiiiiiiaf" @ Candy Shop

20 Jan 17
"Animals" @ Badaboum w/ KON, Neet

26 Nov 16
"Blanche Neige" @ Badaboum w/ Tiger & Woods

25 Sept 16
"Eté d'amour" @ Le Bain, NYC

16 Sept 16
"Green Party" @ La Clairière w/ Jacques, Polo & Pan

16 Aug 16
"Jeffrey" @ Copacabana rooftop, Rio

14 Aug 16
"Club France" @ Rio de Janeiro

25 June 16
"Solidays Festival" @ Hippodrome de Longchamps

22 Apr 16
"Pablo" @ Badaboum w/ Pablo Valentino + friends

22 Mar 16
"NMD" @ Secret Place / Adidas

6 Feb 16
"Marrade" @ Badaboum w/ Marcus Marr + friends

10 Oct 15
"From Oslo with love" @ Badaboum w/ Ost&Jex + friends

5 July 15
"Hamac Festival" @ Mairie du 9 w/ Friends

28 June 15
"Solidays Festival" @ Hippodrome de Longchamps

21 June 15
"Pain Surprises de la musique" @ Glazart w/ Basile di Manski, Jacques & friends

6 June 15
"Miel" @ FAVST w/ HNNY

25 April 15
"Fonk" @ FAVST w/ Jungle

7 March 15
"Boum" @ Badaboum w/ Session Victim, TVFROM86

13 March 15
"51" @ La Dame Noir, Marseille

13 & 14 Dec. 14
"Music Village" @ Les Arcs w/ Fakear, Superpoze, A. Rebotini, Pain Surprises

7 Aug. 14
"WDLST" @ Wanderlust w/ Kyodai, S3A, Mawimbi

11 July 14
"Session" @ Badaboum w/ Nymphony Records

29 June 14
"Solidays" @ Hippodrome de Longchamps w/ Yuksek

18 June 14
"Cliché" @ Concorde Atlantique

30 April 14
"Basement" @ Lyon w/ Flight Facilities, Fritz Kalkbrenner

11 Jan. 14
"CCT" @ Machine du Moulin Rouge w/ FKJ, Louis La Roche

29 Nov. 13
"Cheers" @ Social Club, Paris w/ HOSH, Villanova

16 Nov 13
"Victorious Shelter" @ WATO, Bunker Paris XV

15 Nov. 13
"Boum" @ Badaboum, Paris w/ Gene Siewing

31 Oct 13
"Cloture de la Fiesta" @ Docks des Suds, Marseile w/ 2ManyDjs, Booka Shade, N'to

26 Oct. 13
"Jo" @ Chez Joséphine Bar

7 Sept. 13
"Le Carreau" @ Reims

22 Aug. 13
"Summer" @ Wanderlust Paris

27 July 13
"Kiwisurf World Cup" @ Biscarosse

12 July
"Beach Festival" @ Marseille

4 July
"No Bears No Cliché" @ Wanderlust Paris

29 June 13
"Rock Island Festival" @ Marseille w/ Breakbot, Kavinsky, Agoria

28 June 13
"Solidays Festival" @ Hippodrome de Longchamps

19 June 13
"Cliché" @ Concorde Atlantique

09 May 13
"This Is Not Music | Red Bull" @ Marseille

08 May 13
"Marvellous Island" @ Paris

07 May 13
"Les Vagues Electroniques" @ Marseille w/ Shook, Bakermat, Etienne de Crecy

22 Mar. 13
"Pain Surprises Party"

02 Mar. 13
"On Tour" @ La Cargo, Arles

12 Jan. 13
"CHUICHO" @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge | w/ Moullinex, Cee-Roo, DATA

08 Dec. 12
"Delirium Tremens" @ Le Dandy Pigalle

07 Dec. 12
"Terrazza Martini" @ Club Royale

11 Nov. 12
"Popcorn Project" @ Club de l'Etoile Cinema

19 Oct. 12
"Curiosity" @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge w/ Miguel Campbell, Zimmer

18 Oct. 12
"Kulte Tees Collection Release Party" @ Panic Room w/ Kulte Soundsystem

27 Sep. 12
"La maîtresse en maillot de bain" @ Bus Palladium w/ Shook, Kartell, Synapson, Cézaire

01 Aug. 12
"Cliché August" @ Péniche Concorde Atlantique w/ Céline, Siler&Dima

21 Jul. 12
"Kiwisurf World Cup" @ Biscarosse

13 Jul 12
"Version Originale" @ Chalet des Iles Daumesnil w/ Lifelike

27 Jun. 12
"Cliché Berlin" @ Péniche Concorde Atlantique w/ Daniel Steinberg, Nicolas Lutz

24 Jun. 12
"Solidays Festival" @ Hippodrome Longchamp

24 May 12
"PLAYTIME" @ Le Carmen

12 Apr. 12
"Premiers pas" @ Bus Palladium w/ Marie Madeleine, Chateaubriand

22 Mar. 12
"Selector" @ Le Carmen

25 Feb. 12
"La Planque" @ Loft Caprice

12 Feb. 12
"Tombe le chandail" @ Chacha club

11 Jan. 12
"Old School" @ Le Carmen

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