RAVE RAVE RAVE!!! … the crowd is screaming, jumping – sweating once the German madness enters the stage!
The pleasant chaotic brothers have been performing in Germany for the last ten years and now will be bringing the rave to the rest of Europe!
We are proud to present „Golden Toys“ who will unleash their craziness having supported global players like Deadmau5, Tujamo or Zombie Nation for years.
Their musical style is crazy and colourfull! Enfusing sounds, all that can be squeezed into dirty-electro, between  squeak  and noise, Eighties, Pop and R&B.
Don´t miss an awesome show of freakyness and perfection and start a Rave with Golden Toys!

Picked up a fat-neck, nylon-string acoustic guitar that my mum bought from the local Opportunity Shop for $5 at the age of 23. Started by mucking around making my own sound patterns and downloading chords for songs I liked. 
Not long after, I wrote my first comedy song for a mates pirate party - The Pirate Song. A bunch of messy low-brow comedy songs ensued from there. I was your go to guitar guy for messy morning tracks during my 20 something party years. Most of the songs from that era will never be heard again but will be remembered by those that can.
Fast forward 10+ years and and now you get the best of the best from the last decade!

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


Benny Smiles is an Irish synthwave/retrowave producer based in London. Favouring electronic instruments, vintage synthesisers and drum machines, his most recent work nods to M83, Neon Indian, and Com Truise. Think Stranger Things / Drive / Hotline Miami soundtracks and you’re most of the way there.


“When We Touch” marks Benny’s fourth release, and is the first single from his forthcoming “Fearless Leadership” EP. It follows the “Hotline Miami 2 EP”, which is featured in the cult video game Hotline Miami 2 and in Spotify’s Retrowave / Outrun editorial playlist, both of which have helped to garner an international audience and around 5 million streams of the EP across various platforms.


Benny’s latest material follows a period of focus on his work in studio engineering, building his knowledge of old school recording techniques and equipment in some legendary recording studios, and learning first hand from some of the world’s most renowned record producers, songwriters, and artists. Having cultivated a collection of vintage analogue synthesisers and audio processors along the way, he now returns with a newfound appreciation for sonics, analogue imperfection, and the soul that lives in electronic instruments.


Prompted by the tongue-in-cheek artwork, the most pressing question about the Fearless Leadership EP thus far has been “is your face really that small?” And the answer is… it could be.


Benny Smiles has supported artists including London Grammar and Ghostpoet, and performed at festivals including Electric Picnic, Indiependence, Castlepalooza, and Ireland Music Week.



INDUBLIN.IE: “First [at Hard Working Class Heroes festival], to the Workman’s Club for one-man electro wonder machine Benny Smiles. Infectiously upbeat loops, guitar, and Bowie-esque vocals, with the occasional healthy dose of slap bass was warmly met by the crowd. Yet it was Smiles’ stage presence that really endeared him to those present. Informing us early in the set he had foolishly taken a valium to help fight off a flu; if he is this good when sick and under the influence you can only image how good he is when on top form. A definite highlight of the festival, how this guy isn’t already huge is a mystery.”

 
GOLDENPLEC: “[Somehow Yours Do] is a beauty of a track with hypnotising synths and a captivating video”

 
NIALLER9: “Benny Smiles has given me one of my favourite tracks of the last month already with ‘Sunday Morning’”

 
PUFFERFISH: “Playful, fun, fucking awesome… Benny Smiles is making funky electronic music that you can really enjoy. And we mean really enjoy.”

CHASSEUR MAGAZINE: “Benny is by far the most charming, energetic, addictive, unique and pleasurable acts of the [Hard Working Class Heroes] festival so far. He asks everyone to take “seven steps forward” and then proceeds to move and shake across the stage, never missing a note. The audience are in the palm of his hand throughout, truly captivated by his inescapable talent, showing many of the bands how it is done. Industry execs must be salivating at the prospects he presents.”

 
HOTPRESS: “‘Moonlight’ featuring Ham Sandwich’s Niamh Farrell is radio-friendly whimsy at its finest. Known to his postman as Ross Fortune, this shapeshifting musicmaker has covered a whole lot of musical ground…barely stepping a foot wrong”

 
GOLDENPLEC: “With [Sunshine / Moonlight] Benny Smiles shows that he is a diverse and talented artist. His willingness to use different instrumentation and sounds results in tracks that are varied and unique and aurally tantalizing. It is solid proof that he doesn’t have to rely on novelty to grab an audience’s attention.”

 
AOIFE MC RTÉ 2XM: “[‘Sunday Morning’ is] definitely, definitely my favourite of the whole podcast [Nialler9 Podcast 39]…it’s so much fun!”


bennysmilesmusic[at]gmail[dot]com

I was born as an Attack Helicopter and than i drank some SPRITE CRANBERRY and became an COMMUNIST coming out with a new squeal called "HOW MANY DADS DO I HAVE?."

hands on hips, waists and neck, hands, backs, crooked smiles, slow kisses, keep me stuck (in many ways), sexy nights, hot baths, messy hairs, short hairs, art therapy, humanistic psychology, spider man, cartoons, zombies, hugs, women, tattoos, tattooed women, cinema, Hannibal Lecter, indie rock (indie), hippos, orange, guitars, kittens, babies, motorcycle, I love it all.

I'm just another music lover!

I ain't nothin' like these heaux (NO)
Don't compare me to no one (DON'T DO IT)
Money green like a Ceelo (YUP)
Yeah, my pockets so swollen
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Look, these heaux be fake flossin'
Fake ass jewelry, got a neck rash (EWW)
These heaux be fake ballin'
Tax money, that shit won't last (BYE)

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AVAILABLE FOR GIGS, Solo and with like-minded musicians/artists.
Musician, Composer, Artist, Writer, Thinker and Music Label
I am a trumpet player, guitarist, keyboardist and play a variety of other instruments including laptop and iPod. All my works are original. Most of my work is new. My primary projects are Blast Radius, a loud freeform music journey; my solo keyboard explorations; and Resonator, a solo pro/post-metal project. I am also a member of the PEK's Evil Clown collective. playing in the Leap of Faith Orchestra, various incarnations of Leap of Faith, Turbulence, Metal Chaos Ensemble, Simulacrum and Mekaniks. Also currently a member of the trio Apropos of Nothing with Marc Drinkwater and Mike McCaw, Neksys with Eric Zinman and Mike McCaw, and Field of Blood, a duo project with Eric Zinman. I am also a member of Fable Grazer, a collaborative free improvisation collective. All work for these groups is spontaneous and through composed. I am looking for gigs: live(as Resonator, Blast Radius, or solo keyboard), scoring or whatever. I am willing to work with collaborators, musical and working in other audio and physical media including video, projection, dance, and also as a sideman. Multimedia is also in the future. I have started bulding my own instruments and will incorporate these into my work. There are also composed pieces, improvisational pieces, some more traditional tunes in various genres and old stuff. Some is pretty raw. Other work otherwise. The sounds reflect my eclectic and wide-ranging influences tastes and otherwise. Some work will be totally improvised. Some very composed. It is all within my purview of what music is.
Among my current projects are:
Fable Grazer - improvisation collective
Blast Radius - loud and dark
Neksys - post-rock/post-jazz
Field of Blood - post-rock/post-jazz
member of Evil Clown collective - Leap of Faith, Leap of Faith Orchestra, Turbulence, Metal Chaos Ensemble, Simulacrum, Mekaniks - eclectic, non-genre specific improvisation music
Resonator - a proto/post rock/metal solo project
Black Petunias - guitar driven sweetness and mayhem
krisisthrill - electronic/noise project
Noir - a jazz project
Orchestra of Dreams
Physickes - electronic/noise/drone
Various and sundry composed music projects
PYG, an improvisational doom trio/quartet.
I have guested live and recorded with many groups over the years in many genres, recently among others with New Language Collaborative and Metal Chaos Ensemble. I have played and studied trumpet for decades and guitar for the past few years (I consider myself a primitive self-schooled guiarist at best) as well as keyboard. As much as I am here to present my music, I am here to discover what others have to offer as well. 
Dystonyx Music is my Bandcamp label.
Music is essentially my life.

Hello friends.

We are Anal Anus Angreb (Anal Anus Attack). We like tuba tuba music and piq squeals. 

Our demo is soon to be released and we have a lot of music videos incoming. 

We are looking for a singer, please PM if you know how to pig squeal!

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