Strictly Kev aka DJ Food aka Openmind - Music producer, DJ and Graphic Designer. I've worked with and for Ninja Tune since 1993, designing covers, mixing radio shows and producing records as well as touring the world DJing. 

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The new album out now: 'I Inside the Old Year Dying'

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 Kiko Barba DJ since 1996. Kiko is one of the few representative names in Madrid's nightlife. He began his career as a hip-hop DJ and soon was spinning all sort of trends that embrace electronic music. His style and character are based on his openess to music making him a very versatil DJ. Along his trajectory he has been mixing all kind of staff; Hip Hop, house, techno... .... In 2000, Kiko started as a resident at the after hours XXY, and it is in this moment that got to be well known. In the same year he also performed @Long Play and @Coppelia, those being his best known residences. At that time all the clubs in the city started demanding him and he started to spin as special guest in all sort of parties like the rave Goa, where he is often invited. He also gets residence @Land club every Sunday  located at the mythical Pasapoga lounge, resident with J.L Magolla in DEEP club. .... His great contact with the public and his fire-resistant sets allow him to pierce the frontiers of Madrid.... The restless mind of this DJ and his relationship with dancefloors make him easily assimilate the constant evolution of electronic music because over all, Kiko is considered an insatiable consumer of club culture and it is likely he will be seen dancing on any floor where good music is playing. .. .. Kiko has always been surrounded by people who perform as well as him, compromised with the evolution of this subculture and taking part in different collectives. Innerlife, MiMusik and the project Scuba Dive Music are some of them. Their intention is to combat the lack of promotion that artists are suffering. They begin to create labels to be able to publish their own productions and in this way, they get to be better known in the rest of Europe. A result of this project has been his colaboration with the collective Stock5 and his performance at the Monsters of House Festive (Munich). .... Elo,David Mariscal and Adolfo Velayos are also members of the label MiMusik with Kiko. MiMusik was born as a platform for artists in Madrid. Publishing themes from different artists without following a particular line. .... Kiko has also been invited to the Rex Club in Paris by Jeff K, head of the labels Crack & Speed and Silvernetwork. He is also contributing to some projects with Esperanza Records, a new label founded by Kasper and Papol (Rdt) on which international artists are mixed with producers from Madrid and which the first reference is a maxi of Kiko Barba with remixes of Troy Pierce (Minus) and Butane (Alphahouse Rec). .. .. Nowadays Kiko is developing sets of electronic music focused on the dancefloor and in harmony with the new trends of minimal house, the most classic sound from Chicago and Detroit and the variations arised from techno and acid house are combined on his sets resulting in absolutely energic and enjoyable sets .

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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


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Chilean born Producer, DJ and label head who commenced his musical career as a guitarist in the Toronto underground metal community. 

In 2017 Heatscore founded Lazuli Reords to release his own works. Now, the label has expanded to become a heavy hitter in the underground electronic music community, with recent support from several DJ's including international superstar DJ Tiesto.

Heatscore has released music on Syncopate Afterhours, Trippy Code Records, Traum Techno Germany, Lazuli Records, Lazuli Black, and Belgium’s Tanzgemeinschaft. Notable released include 2020's Close Encounters EP,  which charted on Beatport top 100 hard techno releases peaking at number 8 for 14 days. 

Heatscore's sound can be characterized by it's deep house grooves, punching techno beats and beautiful guitars and vocals often performed by Heatscore himself. Live DJ sets offer a variety of both originals and curated favorites of Deep House, Minimal and Techno productions and can be heard on We Own The Night Podcasts.


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