Rune Reilly Kölsch or simply Kölsch is a Danish electronic dance musician and DJ. He has worked with artists such as Coldplay, Imogen Heap, London Grammar, Tiga, Sasha and Michael Mayer.

Career

In 2003, Kölsch and

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released the track "

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", an instrumental house tune with a synthesized saxophone riff, on Credence, a sublabel of

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, for which he received the

Danish Music Award The Danish Music Awards (DMA) is a Danish award show. The show has been arranged by IFPI since 1989, and was originally called ''IFPI-prisen'' ("IFPI-Award") until 1991, when it changed its name to ''Dansk Grammy'' ("Danish Grammy"). It was chang ...

in 2004. In the 2000s, several remakes of "Calabria" were released, including a version by Drunkenmunky and a mashup titled "

Destination Calabria "Destination Calabria" is a song by Italian music producer Alex Gaudino with vocals by Crystal Waters. It is the first single released from his debut album ''My Destination''. The track is a mashup, taking the instrumental from Rune RK's " Cala ...

" by

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featuring

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, a veritable international hit in many countries, whilst in June 2022 two songs using the same sample were climbing the UK Top 30, one by DJ

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, the other by West London drill rapper Benzz. In 2017, Kölsch performed on top of the

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in Paris for Cercle.

Discography

Studio albums

*2013: ''1977'' *2015: ''1983'' *2017: ''1989'' *2019: ''Fabric Presents Kölsch'' *2020: ''Now Here No Where'' *2021: ''Isopolis''

Singles

* 2010: "Loreley" * 2010: "Silberpfeil" * 2011: "Opa" * 2011: "Der Alte" * 2012: "All That Matters" (with Troels Abrahamsen) * 2013: "Goldfisch" * 2013: "Zig" * 2014: "Cassiopeia" * 2015: "Two Birds" * 2015: "DerDieDas" * 2016: "KIR" * 2016: "Grey" * 2017: "Goodbye" * 2017: "Push" * 2018: "Left Eye Left" * 2018: "Emoticon" * 2018: "Little Death" * 2018: "Hal" (with Tiga) * 2019: "The Lights" (with Sasha) * 2020: "Glypto" * 2020: "Shoulder of Giants" * 2020: "Remind you" * 2020: "Sleeper must awaken" * 2020: "The Great Consumer" * 2020: "While waiting for something to care about" * 2020: "Time" (With Beacon) * 2021: "Hold/Clear"

Other projects

As Artificial Funk

* 1995: "Real Funk" * 1996: "Zone One" * 2000: "Use It (The Music)" * 2001: "People Don't Know" * 2002: "Together" * 2005: "Never Alone"

As Ink and Needle

* 2006: "Number One/Number Two" * 2006: "Number Three/Number Four" * 2007: "Number Five/Number Six" * 2007: "Number Seven/Number Eight" * 2008: "Number Nine/Number Ten" * 2008: "Number Eleven/Number Twelve"

As Rune RK

* 2012: "Teacup" * 2013: "Burning Boombox" * 2013: "One Perfect Day" (ft. Laura V) * 2014: "Trash Talk"

As Enur

* 2007: "

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" * 2012: "I'm That Chick" (featuring

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Other aliases

* 2003: "

", as Rune * 2003: "I Just Want to Be a Drummer", as Heavy Rock * 2004: "Beautiful", as Rude RKade * 2007: "Koochi Koochi", as Fashion Victims * 2007: "Elephant", as Rune & Sydenham (with Jerome Sydenham) * 2008: "Peter Pan/Snow Bored", as Rune & Sydenham (Jerome Sydenham)

References

External links

Eiffel Tower

Kölsch/Kompakt
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