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It was a breakthrough by name, and by nature. By 2013, Carlo Ruetz had been playing twisted technoid minimal for a decade, but it was his debut longplayer of that year - Breakthrough - that launched him into the spotlight. Within 24 hours of its release the album crashed into the top spot of Beatport's minimal techno chart, and it also caught the discerning ear of Richie Hawtin. Since that unmissable moment, Carlo has only gathered more and more momentum; acclaimed EPs for MINUS, DEEPERFECT and KD MUSIC, alongside memorable performances at international Minus showcases and Richie Hawtin's essential Ibiza night ENTER. Unique in sound and in situation, Carlo Ruetz is the 'overnight sensation' born of ten years in the trenches of the underground.

Rostock-bred Carlo bought his first turntables and mixer in 2001, and his devotion to the minimalist aesthetic was forged in his early sets. He soon became a regular fixture of clubs and open air parties in northern Germany, then broadened his horizons further, to blaze the stage at ENTER. Ibiza at Space, FUSE Brussels, TOFFLER Rotterdam, 10 DAYS OFF - The Last Waltz Ghent, and a 2015 tour through India. Carlo began writing his own compositions in 2010, and marked up releases for Moonplay Records and Slaap Records before the game-changing arrival of Breakthrough through Supdub Digitales. Carlo Ruetz is Known for starting from scratch with every production, mining deep for unexpected sounds and arrangements, and taking compelling bends and turns while in the DJ booth. It's no surprise that Richie Hawtin counts Carlo Ruetz as part of the new Minus generation. Expect to hear more from this overnight veteran who exists at the leading edge of minimalism and techno.

Lucent Techno. Inner Echoes.
Shining pulses from the inside out.

Quality will find its way.
booking: info@pracht.dk

// MOONBOOTIQUE // RHYTHMETIC // WHATIPLAY // MOTHERBOT // CRIMINAL BASSLINE //  JANNOWITZ Rec. //

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

Jim Morrison




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Phantasie, Einfühlungsvermögen, musikalische Version und natürlich ein untrügliches Gespür für die Trends von übermorgen – Eigenschaften, die einen guten Künstler erst von einem hervorragenden Künstler unterscheiden. Der Leipziger DJ und Producer David K. besitzt alle vier im Überfluss, wie der 26-Jährige bereits mit seinen gefeierten Remixen für Robin Schulz, Tiesto oder Faul bewiesen hat. Pünktlich zu den beginnenden Sommerfestivals startet David K. nun so richtig durch. Mit im Programm: Sein brandneues Club-Brett „Like The Dawn (David K. Remix)“

Er ist auf dem Sprung an die absolute Spitze einer ganz neuen Generation von DJs und Producern, die statt auf durchgehend wummernde Bässe und stumpfe Hands-in-the-Air-Parts mehr Wert auf Atmosphäre und Emotion, wie auch auf Tanzbarkeit legen: Mit seinen Mixen, Tracks und Edits wie seinem viel beachteten Debüt-Tune „Meet You“ sowie dem ebenso begeistert aufgenommenen Follow-Up „Open Eyes“ hat sich David K. ab 2012 innerhalb kürzester Zeit eine stetig wachsende Fanbase erspielt – heute wird der Leipziger als das kommende Next big Thing innerhalb der europäischen Deep House-Szene gehandelt. Ein kommender Shootingstar, der allerbeste Chancen hat, selbst Robin Schulz schon bald seinen Thron als momentan erfolgreichster deutscher Clubhitlieferant ernsthaft streitig zu machen! Bereits Anfang des Jahres war David K. auf der renommierten Winter Music Conference in Miami nach Robin Schulz an den Turntables vor einer absolut geflashten Crowd zu erleben.

Als „gut ausgewogenes Mittelding aus romantischen Vibes und Clubtauglichkeit“ bezeichnet David K. selbst seinen sanft nach vorne pushenden Signature-Sound, auf dem sich warme, akustische Elemente mit einer fließenden Bassline und treibenden Beats zu einem melancholisch-entspannten, tanzbaren Mix verbinden. „Einerseits ein wenig verschmust, andererseits geht es absolut nach vorne“, so David über seine ganz eigene Interpretation von Melodic Deep House. „Ich würde meinen Style als melodiösen House mit Vocals und organischen Instrumenten beschreiben. Mich selbst würde ich als Romantiker bezeichnen; das spiegelt sich auch irgendwie in meinen Tracks wider. Ich mag es, aus ruhigen, schönen Songs tanzbare Clubtunes zu basteln. Ich fände es toll, wenn die Leute zum Sonnenaufgang an einem Strand zu meinen Tracks abfeiern. Eine sehr schöne Vorstellung.“

Bereits im Alter von 14 Jahren hat der erklärte Nachtmensch David K. mit dem Auflegen begonnen; nach Zwischenstationen in lokalen Clubs sowie Sets in ganz Deutschland, Österreich, Ungarn, Belgien, der Schweiz, Holland und den USA hat sich der 22-Jährige mittlerweile bis auf die Stages großer Festivals wie dem SonneMondSterne oder der Sputnik Spring Break hoch gespielt. Und auch als gefragter Remixer hat sich David K. einen exzellenten Namen gemacht: So zeichnet er u.a. verantwortlich für Remixe von Robin Schulz` „Headlights (feat. Ilsey)“, Tiestos „Light Years Away“ und Fauls „Something New“.

Und auch mit seinem nächsten Clubhit, einem Remix des Folksongs „Like The Dawn“ vom texanischen Duo The Oh Hellos, sorgt David K. schon jetzt für rappelvolle Tanzflächen. The Oh Hellos „Like The Dawn (David K. Remix)“ erscheint am 01.05.2015 über Tonspiel/ Warner Music.

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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