Office Listening: Kolsch '1977'

We needed a lift today in our office, so we turned to the big room techno brilliance of Kompakt's Kolsch. Listen with us.

Jimmy Coultas

Date published: 7th Apr 2014

We've treated our ears to a stadium sized slab of main room techno on the Skiddle stereo today, with our speakers reverberating to the pulsating grooves of Kolsch's debut album 1977 which was released on Kompakt records in 2013 - stream the album below via Spotify.

Opening with the shrill euphoria of 'Goldfisch', 1977 is a release that never shirks away form being big and dramatic. There's the sinister growl of 'Eiswinter', evoking the classic noir electro infused techno preferred by the likes of Oxia, Erol Alkan and Miss Kitten, and then the shimmering trance of 'Oma', both destined to be the soundtrack to huge DJ sets across the globe this summer.

Kolsch brings to the table shuffling house on 'Bappedekkel', which then mutates violently via a synth breakdown midway through the track, a formula repeated with the sparkly 'Loreley'. He then shoots for the nostalgia moment via the sublime 'Der Alte', a rough and ready piano house classic in the making, whilst album closer 'Felix' is one of those records that defines the beauty in watching the sun rise on a heat soaked dancefloor.

It's certainly perked up an office a little too embittered form the weekend's travails. An album that simply screams out to be heard live, Kolsch's big room hedonism a perfect accompaniment to the imminent festival season in the UK and abroad that awaits us and we're eager to search him out for our own fun now we've started to feel moderately more human again.

You can catch the live show of him in more intimate surroundings when he plays Fire in London on Thursday 10th April (tickets here), bringing this panoramic vision of electronica drenched techno to the capital for the first time in 2014. 

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