<b>Half Danish, half Dutch, but always 100% dedicated... Some call him a music maniac.</b>

Maybe it’s because he has his tentacles in so many different areas of the music industry; Having his own radio show ‘Adapt to this!’ on several radio stations world-wide, hosting his own festival “Trix in the Mix” twice a year in his home town Den Bosch, dj-ing, producing and running his labels Adapt Recordings and Cutbrook. 
 
Still doesn’t ring a bell? Let us further introduce Jorgensen:
 
His first release “Untitled” got picked up straight away by Toolroom Records. Ever since he has been producing and remixing for labels such as: Spinnin, Toolroom, Hotfingers, Natura Viva, Sony  and his own label Adapt recordings of course. With over 200 releases on Beatport and multiple compilations, he is even more dedicated than the day he started!
 
His skills are not limited to producing. He is also a highly skilled DJ, performing for crowds all over the world. Clubs, festivals, no crowd is safe for the energy he unleashes. He has a way of connecting with the audience and taking them on an intense journey through cutting edge grooves, with only one goal: crowd satisfaction!  
 
Jorgensen has raised the bar yet again for 2012 with his own label Adapt Recordings. He wants to take a new yet revived approach to electronic dance music as a DJ and producer. He recently quoted: 
 
“ We receive so many outstanding productions each day, that me and the Adapt Team decided to do more releases on a monthly basis, with quality house music from the respected names and new kids pulling the wagon for a new generation! I wanted to create a label that embraced the spirit of electronic dance music in the late 80’s. An era in which music wasn’t pigeon-holed constantly and DJ’s were versatile and eclectic. And so far we did goooooood! ”

In 2012 Adapt Recordings will provide you with even more outstanding releases by: Filthy Rich, Belocca, Darko de Jan, Mike Newman, RiddimJunkies, Frashad Kay and more exciting, promising and established names in the world of tech house…

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


Gabriel Ananda has been an established institution in the electronic music scene for countless years now and produces from emotionally playful, to primetime Techno a wide range of styles, without ever forgetting the organic groove in it. In recent times he has attracted attention especially through his radio show and same named label "Soulful Techno" in the emotional, melodic segment. Through several releases on his more dancefloor oriented label "Basmati" and further collaborations, as well as remixes by and for various well-known artists, Gabriel can now look back on over 300 productions. In addition to that, he fascinates with his gripping and varied sets, which take people around the globe on an emotional ride. Either from behind the DJ desk, or with his monthly Soulful Techno Podcast.

DJ / Producer (the Netherlands)


Biography:

Jeremy Juno (1982, the Netherlands) started DJing when he was 14 years old.
During these years he developed a wide range of styles he likes to play.
All his influences got him into delivering Deep Soulful tunes which can easily flow into Tech House, Techno and Tribal House.
This variety can also be found in the tracks he has been releasing since mid 2008. With a global imprint Jeremy Juno has released on several labels. 

For a full overview you can check his Beatport (http://www.beatport.com/artist/jeremy-juno/86884) and Traxsource page (http://www.traxsource.com/#/artist/13318/jeremy-juno).


Jeremy Juno has released on the following labels:

Universal Music (Sweden)
Nervous Records (US)
Bush Records (UK)
Deepvisionz (US)
Liquid Deep (UK)
Purple Music (Switzerland)
Liquid Deep (UK)
CRMS Records (Serbia)
Boo Records (UK)
Country Club Disco (US)
Duffnote (UK)
Sony Music (Sweden)
Raw Trax Records (Italy)
Power and Purpose Records (UK)
Good For You Records (US)
Heat Up Music (Belgium)
Shelving Music (Argentina)
Soulful Legends (US)
Taylor Made Recordings (the Netherlands)
Open Bar Music (US)
Housepital Records (the Netherlands)
Sesque Music (UK)
Kaapro Rec (the Netherlands / Finland)
Adapt Recordings (the Netherlands)
TechTribal Records (US)
Sonic Circus Records (the Netherlands)
Not For Us Records (Brazil)
Phäntom Records (France)
Colours Audio (UK)
Stimulated Soul Recordings (the Netherlands)
Housecast Records (Bulgaria)
Techsoul Records (the Netherlands)
SlowPitch Recordings (Germany)
Big Flu Records (the Netherlands)
Neurotic Groove (US)
Kool Katz Recordings (US) 
Revox Records (Taiwan)
Twisted Shuffle (the Netherlands)
Solardish Records (Germany)
Future Street Music / FSM Recordings (the Netherlands)
TMR (Italy)
Masal / Azucar (the Netherlands)
BQ Recordings (Russia)
Chief Recordings (the Netherlands)
Tenor Recordings (Germany)
Consistent Records (the Netherlands)
Sajgon Records (Slovakia)
Phat Beat Records (the Netherlands)
Home Grooves (the Netherlands)
Mylo Records (Germany)
Dirty Soul (the Netherlands)
Le Bien Et Le Mal Recordings
Hugh Recordings
Soulisimo Records

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