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KOM 477LP
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Double LP version. I Talk To Water, the fifth album for Kompakt by Danish producer Kölsch, is the artist's most personal statement yet. While all the trademarks that make his music so popular and powerful are still present -- lush, melodic techno; swooping, trance-like figures; sensuous, shivery texturology -- I Talk To Water is also a deep and intimate rapprochement with family and history, a beautiful, finely detailed document of loss and memory, and a tracing of the long, unbroken thread of grief that runs through our lives once we've lost those we loved. The emotional core of I Talk To Water, then, is a cache of recordings by Kölsch's father, Patrick Reilly, who passed away in 2003 from brain cancer. With time rendered elastic by the pandemic and its associated lockdowns, its sudden, alienating shifts in everyday living, Kölsch found himself reflecting on his father's passing and ongoing spiritual presence, thinking about how best to memorialize such a significant figure in his own life. Those recordings opened a gateway, of sorts, for Kölsch to move through -- a way to bring past and present together and entwine them in a sensitive, poetic manner. Recordings of Reilly appear on three songs across I Talk To Water. Also featuring Perry Farrell.
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KOMP 179CD
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I Talk To Water, the fifth album for Kompakt by Danish producer Kölsch, is the artist's most personal statement yet. While all the trademarks that make his music so popular and powerful are still present -- lush, melodic techno; swooping, trance-like figures; sensuous, shivery texturology -- I Talk To Water is also a deep and intimate rapprochement with family and history, a beautiful, finely detailed document of loss and memory, and a tracing of the long, unbroken thread of grief that runs through our lives once we've lost those we loved. The emotional core of I Talk To Water, then, is a cache of recordings by Kölsch's father, Patrick Reilly, who passed away in 2003 from brain cancer. With time rendered elastic by the pandemic and its associated lockdowns, its sudden, alienating shifts in everyday living, Kölsch found himself reflecting on his father's passing and ongoing spiritual presence, thinking about how best to memorialize such a significant figure in his own life. Those recordings opened a gateway, of sorts, for Kölsch to move through -- a way to bring past and present together and entwine them in a sensitive, poetic manner. Recordings of Reilly appear on three songs across I Talk To Water. Also featuring Perry Farrell.
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KOM EX128EP
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The sun is getting stronger in our northern hemisphere and the festival season is looming around the corner. This calls for a new Speicher release from someone who knows how to deliver joy in abundance: Kölsch. The first track's name "Cold Air" might be somewhat misleading as it is a hell of a heater. Same goes for the heavy polka hitter "Environ" on which Rune is conjuring the vibes of his legendary Speicher debut from 2010, Loreley. As you've come to expect from the man with the hat: This is 100% primetime customer satisfaction with heart and soul.
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KOM EX119EP
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Kölsch rolls back the clock and brings us a spirit of rave, delivered in the way everyone adores his signature style most. This is how he returns to his first home and Kompakt's eternal Speicher series. Kölsch returns to his first home and Kompakt's eternal Speicher series following a remarkably productive past 18 months that included his fourth full length opus Now Here No Where (KOM 422LP/KOMP 158CD, 2020), a double single on his own IPSO imprint and remixes for the likes of Joe Goddard, Douglas Greed, and Agoria. Expect the unexpected this round from our man with the hat with the squelching "Woohman". He rolls back the clock and brings back a spirit of rave, delivered in the way we adore his signature style most. The flipside "Speicherband" feels for Kompakt like an homage of sorts to one of the label's founding fathers, Wolfgang Voigt. The minimal churn of a techno-fied bass drum pounds forth, as a troop of horns call forth the return of unadulterated gatherings to the once empty dance floors across the globe.
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Double LP version. On his fourth album proper, Now Here No Where, Danish producer Kölsch (aka Rune Reilly Kölsch) is charting new terrain. Fans of his "years trilogy" -- 1977 (KOM 276LP/KOMP 107CD), 1983 (KOM 329LP/KOMP 122CD), and 1989 (KOM 373LP/KOMP 139CD) released on Kompakt over the past decade -- were privy to a kind of sonic diary, an autobiography, tracking the artist's early years through three albums of superior, meticulously rendered techno. Calling in collaborators where needed -- most notably, the strings of Gregor Schwellenbach -- there was still something deeply personal going down, not quite hermetic, but internally focused; the albums proved not only Kölsch's mastery of his chosen form, but also his capacity to make techno personal, individual, and to trace histories of the self through music. But on Now Here No Where, Kölsch finds his feet firmly planted in the present. For Kölsch, this makes Nowhere Now Here "an album about life in the year 2020. A time defined by confusion, misinformation and environmental challenges." Kölsch does this with music that effortlessly balances emotional heft with the dancefloor's brimming desires. It's a space that Kölsch has navigated for a while now -- one of techno's breakthrough acts -- but Now Here No Where ratchets up the lushness, making for a delirious drift across twelve tracks that are at once perfectly poised and deeply trippy. "Great Escape" is an elegant swoon, an opener that pivots on a sigh and a prayer; then "Shoulder Of Giants" bustles into view, subliminal clatter and an aching violin line giving way to a riff that glows with fluorescence and iridescence. "Remind You" combines an odd ECM jazziness with notes from a 21st century torch song; "Sleeper Must Awaken" mines huge buzzing synths and lets them float, in and out of sync, with reduced, ticking beats; "Traumfabrik" (dream factory) is oddly lush, the tones malleable and plastic, morphing across a glitching undertow. There are sad, emotional washes of strings throughout the penultimate "While Waiting For Something To Care About", while the patterns of "Romtech User Manual" twist and shape in the light. Throughout, Kölsch never keeps his eye off the dancefloor, and you can tell this is his still his home. The club as a temporary autonomous zone, as a space both of freedom and of politics; somehow, that's all here, Now Here No Where.
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KOMP 158CD
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On his fourth album proper, Now Here No Where, Danish producer Kölsch (aka Rune Reilly Kölsch) is charting new terrain. Fans of his "years trilogy" -- 1977 (KOM 276LP/KOMP 107CD), 1983 (KOM 329LP/KOMP 122CD), and 1989 (KOM 373LP/KOMP 139CD) released on Kompakt over the past decade -- were privy to a kind of sonic diary, an autobiography, tracking the artist's early years through three albums of superior, meticulously rendered techno. Calling in collaborators where needed -- most notably, the strings of Gregor Schwellenbach -- there was still something deeply personal going down, not quite hermetic, but internally focused; the albums proved not only Kölsch's mastery of his chosen form, but also his capacity to make techno personal, individual, and to trace histories of the self through music. But on Now Here No Where, Kölsch finds his feet firmly planted in the present. For Kölsch, this makes Nowhere Now Here "an album about life in the year 2020. A time defined by confusion, misinformation and environmental challenges." Kölsch does this with music that effortlessly balances emotional heft with the dancefloor's brimming desires. It's a space that Kölsch has navigated for a while now -- one of techno's breakthrough acts -- but Now Here No Where ratchets up the lushness, making for a delirious drift across twelve tracks that are at once perfectly poised and deeply trippy. "Great Escape" is an elegant swoon, an opener that pivots on a sigh and a prayer; then "Shoulder Of Giants" bustles into view, subliminal clatter and an aching violin line giving way to a riff that glows with fluorescence and iridescence. "Remind You" combines an odd ECM jazziness with notes from a 21st century torch song; "Sleeper Must Awaken" mines huge buzzing synths and lets them float, in and out of sync, with reduced, ticking beats; "Traumfabrik" (dream factory) is oddly lush, the tones malleable and plastic, morphing across a glitching undertow. There are sad, emotional washes of strings throughout the penultimate "While Waiting For Something To Care About", while the patterns of "Romtech User Manual" twist and shape in the light. Throughout, Kölsch never keeps his eye off the dancefloor, and you can tell this is his still his home. The club as a temporary autonomous zone, as a space both of freedom and of politics; somehow, that's all here, Now Here No Where.
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FABRIC 202CD
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Fabric Presents Kölsch is a ten-track journey of exclusive new material by Kölsch inspired by and named after flights from his gig schedule. Drawing from the routine experience of flying from show-to-show, each track imagines its own sonic world from solitary journeys at 30,000 feet. Employing a tapestry of carefully arranged textures, he levitates his way through 60 minutes of blissful hypnotism. Building on a constant, but gentle line of tension, his track selections tread the line between melancholic and uplifting. Microscopic percussive details roll through sprawling backdrops whilst animated glitches form subtle melodic leads.
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KOM EX106EP
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Kölsch returns to Speicher following a phenomenal year of touring. His Ipso imprint evolved into a global event and he released together with Tiga "HAL", one of the biggest tracks of this summer. For Speicher 106, he takes an unexpected turn with "Emoticon". Found sounds take on new sonic form and the result is an unconventionally unique groove odyssey. "Little Death" is anything but tragic or small. A choir chant explodes over top of an enchanting house beat which elevates over time to an almighty apex that we have learned to love and rely on from Kölsch.
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KOM 373LP
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Double LP version. Includes download code. For Danish native and much-revered producer/performer Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has proven the perfect home curating his music: with two critically acclaimed albums and a now classic run of solo installments on the Speicher 12" series, he took his techno craftsmanship to new levels, setting it on a melodic, emotive and even autobiographical course -- without losing any of its punch and quirkiness. With his new full-length 1989, Kölsch presents the final chapter of an elegant, anthemic album trilogy that started with an exploration of early childhood memories and influences on 1977 (KOMP 107CD/KOM 276LP, 2013) -- the year of his birth -- and continued on 1983 (KOMP 122CD/KOM 329LP, 2015), a vibrant and picturesque journey sound tracking the year he travelled through Europe aged six. "With 1989, we have arrived in my early teens", Kölsch explains, "a difficult time in my life, where I mostly just remember the greyness of it all." Coinciding with the already challenging need to squeeze past the bottleneck of puberty, it was a time of seething family crisis -- his parents were divorcing: "I would escape that grey world on my skateboard, listen to my Walkman as I explored the city around me. Music became my savior . . . I found a soundtrack to my grey life, and suddenly there was color." It's why you'll find several tracks on the album being named "grey" in different languages, and they all share this distinctly "Kölsch-esque" moment of epic melodies breaking through propulsive techno beats. 1989 marks also Kölsch's intensified deployment of real-life orchestral sounds and the continuation of his extremely fruitful collaboration with Gregor Schwellenbach; after contributing to predecessor album 1983, the Kompakt affiliate, composer, and multi-instrumentalist now conducts the Heritage Orchestra for tracks "Khairo", "Liath" (featuring a violin solo by Kate Robinson), and "Serji", the latter of which Schwellenbach co-wrote and co-produced. The 24-person Heritage Orchestra add the sweeping drama and organic, richly-layered textures that only real strings can produce. Seeing Kölsch's propensity for vocalist cameos on his albums, one shouldn't be surprised to find beautiful cut "In Bottles", which features vocals written and performed by Aurora Aksnes. 1989 delivers on all fronts, engulfing the listener from the outset with its sonic coupling of classical composition and contemporary production -- without sacrificing the impact on the dancefloor.
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KOMP 139CD
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For Danish native and much-revered producer/performer Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has proven the perfect home curating his music: with two critically acclaimed albums and a now classic run of solo installments on the Speicher 12" series, he took his techno craftsmanship to new levels, setting it on a melodic, emotive and even autobiographical course -- without losing any of its punch and quirkiness. With his new full-length 1989, Kölsch presents the final chapter of an elegant, anthemic album trilogy that started with an exploration of early childhood memories and influences on 1977 (KOMP 107CD/KOM 276LP, 2013) -- the year of his birth -- and continued on 1983 (KOMP 122CD/KOM 329LP, 2015), a vibrant and picturesque journey sound tracking the year he travelled through Europe aged six. "With 1989, we have arrived in my early teens", Kölsch explains, "a difficult time in my life, where I mostly just remember the greyness of it all." Coinciding with the already challenging need to squeeze past the bottleneck of puberty, it was a time of seething family crisis -- his parents were divorcing: "I would escape that grey world on my skateboard, listen to my Walkman as I explored the city around me. Music became my savior . . . I found a soundtrack to my grey life, and suddenly there was color." It's why you'll find several tracks on the album being named "grey" in different languages, and they all share this distinctly "Kölsch-esque" moment of epic melodies breaking through propulsive techno beats. 1989 marks also Kölsch's intensified deployment of real-life orchestral sounds and the continuation of his extremely fruitful collaboration with Gregor Schwellenbach; after contributing to predecessor album 1983, the Kompakt affiliate, composer, and multi-instrumentalist now conducts the Heritage Orchestra for tracks "Khairo", "Liath" (featuring a violin solo by Kate Robinson), and "Serji", the latter of which Schwellenbach co-wrote and co-produced. The 24-person Heritage Orchestra add the sweeping drama and organic, richly-layered textures that only real strings can produce. Seeing Kölsch's propensity for vocalist cameos on his albums, one shouldn't be surprised to find beautiful cut "In Bottles", which features vocals written and performed by Aurora Aksnes. 1989 delivers on all fronts, engulfing the listener from the outset with its sonic coupling of classical composition and contemporary production -- without sacrificing the impact on the dancefloor.
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KOM EX097EP
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Kölsch returns to Kompakt following the tremendous success of 2016's Grey (KOM EX093EP). For Speicher 97, Rune revisits the bold, catchy minimalism of his earlier days: think of his Ink And Needle alias or Kölsch's first Speicher/Kompakt Extra release (KOM EX068EP, 2010) and you're not too far off the mark. "Push" is a raucous, sawtooth-y banger that quickly evolves into a high-flying space ride, thanks to its bursts of melody and a deep string break. On the flipside, "Goodbye" creates a delightfully melancholic mood enhanced (and transcended) with organ-like synth textures, retro-futuristic bleeps and fragmented alien voices.
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KOM EX093EP
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2020 repress. Following his massively successful second album 1983 (KOM 329LP/KOMP 122CD, 2015) and the start of his very own imprint IPSO in 2016, celebrated Danish producer and live performer Kölsch keeps those bangers coming. For Speicher 93, he concocts two very special cuts that dig deep into heartfelt, catchy melodies and give them an impelling beat foundation to ride out their trip. Both the brass-infused "Grey" and the jacking club monster "Kir" push for epic dancefloor moments.
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KOM 329LP
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2022 repress. Gatefold double LP version. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Revered Danish producer and live performer Kölsch follows his 2013 hit album 1977 (KOMP 107CD/KOM 276LP) with 1983, again chaining up heroic techno tracks for a grandiose sonic journey to the vibrant heart of today's dancefloor. Coupling contemporary production pizazz with nostalgia-tinged soundscapes and sweeping melodies, this opus acts as both a skillfully composed portfolio of personal memories and a sublime collection of crowd-charming cuts -- a modern classic in the making from a master of his craft. Hot on the heels of Speicher 84 (KOM EX084EP, 2015), featuring club crackers "Derdiedas" and "Two Birds," 1983 is very much a travel album: "When I was a kid in 1983, we used to drive through Europe every summer on the way to the south of France", Kölsch explains. "A lot of my early music memories stem from these long travels, as we would listen to all my father's favorite records on the cassette deck. After getting a walkman, I would make up my own soundtrack for travelling, with early electro and hip-hop creeping into my life. My father of course did not like it, and it never graced the official cassette deck of the car, obviously." Informed by the symbolic quality of these slightly gauzy childhood memories, Kölsch's unique mélange of emotional and functional elements works exceptionally well for the full-length format -- a seamless transition of musing introspection and explosive expression, where catharsis never seems far away in dance-ready techno vignettes like "Moonface," "Unterwegs," or "Pacer." From beatless opener "1983" to the filigreed piano banger "Die Anderen" or the bleep-infused synth-fest "E45," each cut operates as its own little time capsule, storing bits and pieces of recollection and then magically transforming them into epic, beat-driven soundscapes. Confronted with other producers' input (and other memories), these traits find themselves extended in the most interesting ways; "Talbot," "The Road," and "Cassiopeia" (the latter also featured on Speicher 79 (KOM EX079EP, 2014)) make excellent use of Gregor Schwellenbach's emotive orchestral flourishes, while the lyrics of "Bloodline" come to life thanks to the distinct timbre of Tomas Høffding of WhoMadeWho fame. A powerful take on an earlier collaboration, "Papageno 30 Years Later" not only features the return of WAA Industry on vocals, but also ends the album on a wonderfully elegiac, yet hopeful note, basically turning water into wine, as we've come to expect from Kölsch.
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KOMP 122CD
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Revered Danish producer and live performer Kölsch follows his 2013 hit album 1977 (KOMP 107CD/KOM 276LP) with 1983, again chaining up heroic techno tracks for a grandiose sonic journey to the vibrant heart of today's dancefloor. Coupling contemporary production pizazz with nostalgia-tinged soundscapes and sweeping melodies, this opus acts as both a skillfully composed portfolio of personal memories and a sublime collection of crowd-charming cuts -- a modern classic in the making from a master of his craft. Hot on the heels of Speicher 84 (KOM EX084EP, 2015), featuring club crackers "Derdiedas" and "Two Birds," 1983 is very much a travel album: "When I was a kid in 1983, we used to drive through Europe every summer on the way to the south of France", Kölsch explains. "A lot of my early music memories stem from these long travels, as we would listen to all my father's favorite records on the cassette deck. After getting a walkman, I would make up my own soundtrack for travelling, with early electro and hip-hop creeping into my life. My father of course did not like it, and it never graced the official cassette deck of the car, obviously." Informed by the symbolic quality of these slightly gauzy childhood memories, Kölsch's unique mélange of emotional and functional elements works exceptionally well for the full-length format -- a seamless transition of musing introspection and explosive expression, where catharsis never seems far away in dance-ready techno vignettes like "Moonface," "Unterwegs," or "Pacer." From beatless opener "1983" to the filigreed piano banger "Die Anderen" or the bleep-infused synth-fest "E45," each cut operates as its own little time capsule, storing bits and pieces of recollection and then magically transforming them into epic, beat-driven soundscapes. Confronted with other producers' input (and other memories), these traits find themselves extended in the most interesting ways; "Talbot," "The Road," and "Cassiopeia" (the latter also featured on Speicher 79 (KOM EX079EP, 2014)) make excellent use of Gregor Schwellenbach's emotive orchestral flourishes, while the lyrics of "Bloodline" come to life thanks to the distinct timbre of Tomas Høffding of WhoMadeWho fame. A powerful take on an earlier collaboration, "Papageno 30 Years Later" not only features the return of WAA Industry on vocals, but also ends the album on a wonderfully elegiac, yet hopeful note, basically turning water into wine, as we've come to expect from Kölsch.
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Danish mastermind and global fan favorite Kölsch delivers the epic "Derdiedas" and the immersive "Two Birds," marking a return from his remix work for Coldplay, Monkey Safari, and Henry Krinkle, and appearing in the wake of acclaimed performances at DGTL Amsterdam, Fabric, and Miami's Winter Music Conference. When his cozy, playful melodies collide head-on with the stirring thrust of his beats, there's magic to be had. For fans of his highly praised 2013 long-player 1977 (KOMP 107CD/ KOM 276LP), it should also be noted that these cuts serve as primer for his second album, 1983.
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From funky house chart smashes as Rune through anonymous techno 12"s as Tattoorecs to his current incarnation as Kölsch, Rune Reilly Kølsch has never stood still for long amidst the ever-shifting electronic music landscape. Perhaps his eclecticism is not surprising, having been born in Copenhagen's autonomous bohemian district Christianshavn to a German artist mother and an Irish singer-songwriter father. One thing's for sure: his new direction has seen him enjoy a higher level of acclaim and fanaticism than ever before. His bold decision to bring melody, riffs and color back to techno -- in a time when the vogue has been leaning more towards the industrial and dubbed-out once again -- has paid off in a big way. Ever the visionary, Kompakt's Michael Mayer signed him for the first of several releases on his Speicher label back in 2010, culminating in his stunning debut album 1977 (KOMP 107CD/ KOM 276LP). With everyone from Seth Troxler to Axwell playing his unmistakable epics, his appeal is uniquely widespread, combining the accessibility of strong melodies with the incisiveness of boundary-pushing techno. This positioning makes for a truly riveting Balance mix. The dazzling arpeggios of Galaxy 2 Galaxy's "Journey of the Dragon" gently begin Kölsch's journey into the atmospheric netherworlds of electronic music, segueing effortlessly into the yearning vocals and hazy synth breaks of John Talabot's remix of Pional's "It's All Over." Danny Daze's immense "Freeze (Frozen Mix)" takes things into a darker direction with its gurgling arpeggiated acid bass line and cutting, shimmering synths building up an immersive and hypnotic wall of sound. The spitting percussion of Henrik Schwarz's "Lockstep" unexpectedly gives way to the haunting pianos and unmistakable vocals of Radiohead's "Videotape"; a moment of subdued introspection and a chance for the listener to catch their breath. Respite is brief, as the techno machinations of Dhumen's "No More" tees up the slow-building rush of Kölsch's own "Punchbuggy" and the gigantic, swirling stabs of Adrian Hour's hard-grooving "Chordgresion." Maceo Plex's remix of Odd Parents takes the mix to a blissful high, before Stephan Hintz & Phillipp Ruhmhardt's "Panther" teases with its grinding riffs moving in and out of focus. Kölsch's "Papageno" shows his production prowess at its mind-bending finest, with Kenny Larkin's sublimely undulating "Plankton" providing a mellow stepping stone for Tale Of Us & Mano Le Tough's gigantic Caribou remix to seep in gently. We're brought into deeper territories as we edge towards a rousing climax, Kölsch's perfectly-balanced remix of Coldplay's "A Sky Full of Stars" taking the band's unbridled euphoria into a more subtle and considered place. Joris Voorn's wonderfully haunting remix of Audion and Troels Abrahamsen's "Dem Howl" rounds off the mix, graceful pads and soulful vocals making for a fittingly emotive ending.
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Revered producer Kolsch returns to the Speicher series, delivering two distinct cuts that distill all the elements of his earlier work for an even stronger floor impact. "Papageno" is an exciting throwback to the psychoactive synth-bending of faux-shuffle banger "Loreley" -- Kolsch's prime-time debut track from 2010. Fellow Dane and When Saints Go Machine vocalist Waa Industry chimes in for a detour into more personal territory. The initial idea for "Cassiopeia" harks back to a surprise live rendition of "Der Alte" by Gregor Schwellenbach during Kompakt's 20th anniversary celebrations. Kolsch was so enamored with the rework of his material that he decided to flesh it out, featuring Schwellenbach himself.
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2023 repress. Gatefold double LP version featuring 6 of the tracks from the 13 track CD. Speicher staple and renowned club juggernaut Kölsch debuts on Kompakt with the full-length 1977, an extraordinary collection of club gems that introduces his earlier masterpieces to exclusive new material. Here, the epic, the rad, and the snappy find themselves under one expertly-crafted groove, making this album an essential choice for both home clubbers and floor hounds. Your new best friend is here and it's a record. Despite the name and despite Kompakt's well-documented love for Cologne's beer, Kölsch isn't a local and he didn't label himself after the famed brew. Even with a much-acclaimed print run and a series of venerated live appearances under his belt, award-winning Danish producer Rune Reilly Kölsch has to regularly duck quizzical questions about his heritage. 1977 isn't a simple "best of" hack job, however: with new crackers "Basshund," "Bappedekkel," and "Eiswinter" lighting the fire, Kölsch doesn't need to worry about future impact. And then there's a cut like the emotive "Oma." The sweeping "Wasserschutz" and a Trojan horse called "Felix," originally intended to be an album outro of sorts. But then someone pushed the button and the transdimensional portal sprang to life.
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Speicher staple and renowned club juggernaut Kölsch debuts on Kompakt with the full-length 1977, an extraordinary collection of club gems that introduces his earlier masterpieces to exclusive new material. Here, the epic, the rad, and the snappy find themselves under one expertly-crafted groove, making this album an essential choice for both home clubbers and floor hounds. Your new best friend is here and it's a record. Despite the name and despite Kompakt's well-documented love for Cologne's beer, Kölsch isn't a local and he didn't label himself after the famed brew. Even with a much-acclaimed print run and a series of venerated live appearances under his belt, award-winning Danish producer Rune Reilly Kölsch has to regularly duck quizzical questions about his heritage. And yet he couldn't be clearer: take, for example, established floor favorites "Opa" (German for "grandfather"), "Der Alte" (a classic German TV series) or "Silberpfeil" (a legendary German racing car). Those track titles all refer to Rune's memories from a childhood spent in Germany. 1977 isn't a simple "best of" hack job, however: with new crackers "Basshund," "Bappedekkel," and "Eiswinter" lighting the fire, Kölsch doesn't need to worry about future impact. And then there's a cut like "Oma," an emotive counterpart to the slightly sardonic "Opa" and every bit as engaging as canonical hyper-ballad "All That Matters." For the grand finale, Rune turns to "Loreley," the inaugural release of the project and to this day a massive banger in its own right -- so powerful in fact, that the shock needs to be absorbed by two more tracks: the sweeping "Wasserschutz" and a Trojan horse called "Felix," originally intended to be an album outro of sorts. But then someone pushed the button and the transdimensional portal sprang to life.
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2020 repress. For Speicher 75, label staple and world-venerated club juggernaut Kölsch returns to the series with two expectedly masterful epics for the discerning floor. "Goldfisch" is a deliriously beautiful track full of shimmering pads and cinemascopic chords. A soaring trip to the eye of the storm, this will enchant hopers and mopers alike, making it the perfect primer for "Zig," the B-side's majestic prime time mover. Here, you'll find fizzy percussion and spanking disco riddims leading the way to melodic bliss.
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KOM EX070EP
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2020 repress. Rune Riley Kölsch is a tall Danish guy and it's quite likely that you've already heard some of his tracks out in a club. After his impressive debut on Kompakt Extra, he's back with another killer double header. "Opa" is steroid-driven funk with a heavily mental edge powerful enough to lift the roof off any club. "Der Alte" pays tribute to Germany's long-running TV series "The Old Man" with a piano anthem that sits comfortably between Balearic disco and Detroit techno.
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KOM EX068EP
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2020 repress. Kompakt welcomes a force to be reckoned with on the fitting home of Speicher -- Denmark's Rune Riley Kölsch. Tried and tested by Michael Mayer through his relentless touring, "Loreley" has proven to have been a highlight. Though 4-to-the-floor, the spirit of schaffel permeates Kölsch's utterly epic tune. "Silberpfeil" retains the simple playfulness that crests and builds with the single's partner track, but straddles a deeper concoction of melody and harmony.
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