Upcoming gigs:
13.12 |  mosso - Milano, IT
19.12 |  Boyos Wonderland Dine & Dance: Christmas Special at Houtbaar, Haarlem
25.12 |  De Kelder, Haarlem

Boyos Soundsystem is a DJ collective made up of Tomas, Nico, and Mickey. Driven by a shared love for music and nightlife, their sets are eclectic and energetic, blending Disco, House, and global grooves like Zouk, Soca, and Brazilian Boogie.

With a keen sense for reading the room and building dynamic momentum, their style works equally well in intimate settings and on big festival stages. From all-night club sets to dine & dance evenings and festival slots, Boyos has performed at iconic venues and events such as Woodstock 69, Shelter, Pacific, Veerplas Festival, De Zon, and more.

In addition to DJing, the collective hosts their own series called Boyos Wonderland at Houtbaar (Haarlem), combining music with visual art and pop-up tattoos to create immersive experiences.

Known for their thoughtful selections, energetic chemistry behind the decks, and easygoing approach, Boyos Soundsystem is carving out a place as a trusted name within the scene, and is eager to take their sound further afield.

glitch n resident at kit ket  _ @kaptchafail _ 

bookings and inquiries: ketiamina@gmail.com
gigs:
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2022
28/01 New Metals, Nada Temple, Lisboa
03/02 kaptcha @ kwia  , Berlin
04/03 Berlin
26/02 Tragedy, Paris
18/03 kaptcha presents: Amphibian Intermission, Lisbon
30/04 Endurance, Copenhagen
20/05 Kaptcha x Durch, berlin
21/05 FDS, switzerland
28/05 Spielraum, Amsterdam
22/06 all night along, kwia, Berlin
23/07 Hoe Mies, Oxi, Berlin
30/07 Renate, Berlin
06/08 Pamela Pride, Waterkant, Amsterdam
19/08 ketia all night long @ kwia, berlin
27/08 Whole Festival, ferropolis
01/09 xenolith v2.0 release party, kwia, berlin
02/09 Hard Trade, dortmund
09/09 Draaimolen x T4T, tilburg
15/09 Club Cakes, nyc
17/09  Ariel's Party, chicago
23/09 TBA, nyc
24/09 Paragon, nyc 
07/10 SKIN + BODY, amsterdam

PAST

2021
11/07 Trans Rave, ???, Berlin
18/07 Potion, Berlin
30/07 XITb, Kyiv
10/09 HörSnobiety b2b x3butterfly, berlin
17/09 HARD TRADE, berlin
29/10 Trashera, berlin 
31/10 Hookers Ball, berlin
12/11 @kaptchafail at kwia, berlin
13/11 HOR RADIO - kaptcha x no shade, berlin
18/11 SZENTEK, St Andrews, Scottland
04/12 Arvi, Lisbon
17/12 Tragedy, Paris - RESCHEDULED
18/12 Endurance, Copenhagen - RESCHEDULED

2020
10/01 Frivole de Nuit at La Java, Paris
18/01 kit ket 012 BITCHDAY 2.0, Lisbon
25/01 BAD GIRLS CLUB at Kake, Berlin
01/02 Gobstomp x Shandy Party, Brisbane
08/02 LEFAG, Melbourne 
13/02  Honcho Disko, Melbourne
14/02 LeFag X Umami X Vape: Poly Date Night, Melbourne
16/02 Powertrip, Melbourne
20/02 Control, Sydney
28⁄02 Club_Captcha, Surcrose, Sydney
29/02 Heaps Gay, Sydney
04/04 aachen - rescheduled 
11/04 lisbon - rescheduled 
30/04 madrid - rescheduled
08/05 berlin - rescheduled
23/05 berlin - rescheduled
12/06 paris - rescheduled
04/07 copenhagen - rescheduled
28/08 FLOORGASM at Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin
26/09 Nasenblunten, Krakow


2019 ///
31/12 ???????
28/12 Weerdos at Loophole _ Berlin
21/12_ Winter Ball at Trauma Bar_ berlin
06/12_ Lecken at untertage_ berlin
30/11_ kit ket 011 _ BITCH2BITCH _ lisbon
27/11_ Snatched at Music Box _ lisbon
23/11_ Mala Junta at Ved Siden Af _ copenhagen
21/11_ No Shade x Kit Ket at  Griessmuehle _ berlin
17/11_ NTS Radio _ London 
08/11_ HARD TRADE at OHM _berlin
18/10_ mina at Gare_ porto
25/10_ New World Dysorder _berlin
26/10_ Los ninos x mina at FFORMAT_ brussels
14/09_ CO : QUO w/ Clara Cuvé _ berlin
07/09_ HOMODROP at Dalston Superstore _ london
21/09_ kit ket 010: POWDER PUFF GIRLS_ lisbon
21/09_ Suspension at ZDB_ lisbon
30/08 Spring Breakers at Schwuz _ berlin
28/08 Berlin Atonal _ berlin
22/08 Purex _ Lisbon
26/07 CSD Reclaim: Room 4 Resistance x Lecken x mina_ berlin
17_06 Whole Festival _ Berlin
10_06 Kit Ket x Boiler Room: Hard Dance _ Lisbon
08_06 La Folie w/ @photonz _ Paris
17_05 Power Play at Private Location_ Berlin 
06_04_ kit ket 008_ Lisbon
22_03_ Gare + marum + DJ saliva _ Porto 
22_02_ mina #15 _ Lisbon
09_02_ kit ket 007 _ BITCHDAY _ at secret location _ Lisbon
31_01 _ Suspension pres. Mina x Holle at Diskotek Melancholie II _BERLIN_

2018 ///

31_12 Fully Automated Luxury of Oblivion at Maze_Berlin_
22_12 Kit Ket at secret location _Lisbon_
17_11 Mina x Boiler Room at secret location _Lisbon_
03_11 Kit Ket 005 at secret venue _Lisbon_
26_10 mina x SUSPENSION at Maze _Berlin_
20_10 Venganza at IPSE _Berlin_
21_09 Mina #13 at secret venue _ Lisbon_
20_09 Radio Quântica at Lux Frágil _Lisbon_
14_09 Kit Ket 004 at secret venue _Lisbon_
05_08 OBRA at Eka Palace _Lisbon_

Two music making, tea drinking, boys from the Shire…

The dance orientated sound of British musician, producer and DJ Will “Quantic” Holland has enchanted fans and tastemakers across the world for nearly two decades.

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


It was in 2011 that Dutch pair Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets quickly broke through in the electronic music scene. Since then they have become known for their widescreen approach to making and playing club-ready grooves. From deep to disco, tech to soul, they join the dots between the past and the present with their own sense of storytelling and do so in clubs around the world, as well as in their studio. House might be the root of the Dam Swindle sound, but it takes nourishment from a much wider world of music. 

Still now, their breakthrough tunes such as ‘The Wrap Around’ and ‘The Break Up’ receive countless plays on dancefloors all over the world and the duo has made timeless music such as their 2023 disco-house bomb ‘ That’s right’ and 90’s throwback banger ‘Allright – just a tribute’ that became one of the hits of the 2024 festival summer. Dam Swindle has built a trademark sound, while still evolving and maturing their craft in various musical niches. Their landmark 2018 album High Life shows a broad musicality from the duo and this is even more so on their highly anticipated 2025 long player ‘Open’.  ‘Open’ features countless collaborations with high-profile artists such as Dutch pianist Joep Beving and New York-based Ethiopian vocalist Haile Supreme, and sees the duo flex their sound from ambient electronica to synthwave, hiphouse and more. 

Since 2013, the pair has also established their record label Heist Recordings as one of the key independent labels for underground dance music, while also releasing music on other underground mainstays such as Aus Music and Classic Music Company. Heist is more than just a label, though - it is a breeding ground for talents old and new; somewhere talent is nurtured and allowed to develop. Label showcases and special projects such as the yearly Roundup EP; where all artists from the past 12 months remix each other after a random selection process, furthers the family vibe and helps Heist stand out from crowd. Artists such as Cinthie, DJ Sneak, Crackazat, Tesfa Williams, Makèz, Pépé Bradock, Matthew Herbert, Ge-Ology, Byron the Aquarius and many more have all contributed, proving that it is a place for unrestrained creatives to be free with their own sonic visions. The label looks as good as it sounds, too, thanks to visual artist Bas Koopmans's standout artwork designs. 
 
Proof of Dam Swindle's widescreen approach to production is their long and talented list of collaborators, which includes the likes of acclaimed musician Tom Misch, US talent Seven Davis Jr., instrumental collective Jungle by Night, plus Marc de Clive-Lowe, Jitwam and Lorenz Rhode. Next to their own originals, a broad spectrum of artists have asked Dam Swindle for some of their special remix magic: on labels like Strut and Soundway they have reworked the legendary Pat Thomas, aka the ‘Golden voice of Africa,' and gave his single ‘Yamona’ a contemporary electronic edge, as well as The Mauskovic Dance Band’s track ‘Space Drum Machine’ and plenty more artists like Kerri Chandler, Mayer Hawthorne and Tom Misch. As their talent for bridging genres from all over the world continues to attract global attention, high-profile projects keep rolling in from all points on the musical globe. 

Dam Swindle are famously avid collectors of both old and new records, and it shows in their DJ sets, which keep you on your toes as they move freely through the broad world of house music with skillfully blended moods of soulful techno, acid, breaks, disco and more, all to create those special moments that crowds never forget. It is for that reason that their name has become a real stamp of authority and invention in the dance music world. Whatever they do, then, this pair do with irresistible charm.

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