Throwback Thursday: Rune RK - Papperlapapp

For this week's edition of my Throwback Thursday series, it gives me great pleasure to reintroduce the world to one of the most magical, deviant, gyrating, bleepy, undulating, trance and screw face inducing, tracks ever. From musical chameleon, Rune Reilly Kolsch aka Rune RK it's "Papperlapapp." 

You probably better know Rune RK for his work as Kolsch, but he's released tracks as Artificial Funk, ENUR, his collaborations with Johannes Thorpe and solo project, Ink and Needle. But of course you'll know his track "Calabria," the instrumental of which Nari & Milani combined with Alex Gaudino and Crystal Waters' "Destination Unknown." For me however. the best Rune RK or Kolsch, for that matter, production remains his 2009 production "Papperlapapp." I first came across the ever growing, progressive tech house masterpiece in a recording of Boy 8-Bit's December 4th live set at Junk nightclub in Southampton. It's the last track in the nearly hour and half mix, which I've uploaded to my dropbox, here.

I was immediately drawn to the track because it's bleepy chiptune nature. Mixed in following a simply irresistible and still unknown remix of La Roux's "In For The Kill," the playful percussion and spritely synth work quickly sucks us in. EDIT: Boy 8-Bit has confirmed that it is his remix of In For The Kill. Rune's mix of sparkling and crackling highs and undulating low end propels the track into consecrated air. It always gives me an unearthly chill as though Rune was able to meet the gods above, transcending the mortal gap, and in Promethean fashion steal their one of their greatest musical creations. The whistling synths, twirl in euphoric reverence, flowing, at once, arduously yet somehow calmly and with such great ease. It is clearly the craft of some superhuman, who quite tellingly gave it the name Papperlapapp, which in English means poppycock, hogwash or pish-posh. Perhaps Rune didn't get one of the gods' best creations but in their view, mere rubbish. Regardless, Rune RK's "Papperlapapp" stands as one of the more celestial creations I've ever encountered, still years later intimating its sublime intangible quality. Perhaps Rune RK has ascended to heaven, as we haven't heard any new releases from him for nearly two years, but he has certainly achieved immortality with his ecstasy inducing creations. For now we'll have to be satisfied with his work as the K in Rune RK, Kolsch.

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Throwback Thursday: La Roux - Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix) [Review]

This is the first in my TBT series, in which I'll review the most influential tracks from my past. What better place to start than with the most played track in my iTunes, my favourite track of all-time and arguably the most influential for me in many ways. Flashback to 2009 when I was still just learning about the vastness of the world electronic music (not yet called EDM). I had just returned to school after summer break, armed with a new secret weapon, Fake Blood; thanks to my guru who had shown me Fake Blood's killer remixes (Any Way You Choose To Give It, I Want Your Soul, Stuck On Repeat). I then showed my friends at school and we agreed to go see Fake Blood when he came to town. And unbelievably he was coming just a couple months later, with the biggest crew I've ever seen at Sound Academy; Aeroplane, Annie Mac, Boy 8-Bit, Calvin Harris, Fake Blood, Laidback Luke, Nero, Toddla T, and to top it off locals Zeds Dead and my boy Meech. Since it would be a waste to go only to see Fake Blood, I set out to familiarize myself with the rest of the lineup and the one that immediately caught my ear, was Boy 8-Bit. His combination of video game inspired sounds and progressive and playful electro style was everything I wanted in a producer. I was lucky enough to find a discography torrent, complete with a large number of mixes he had done for various radio shows. I was particularly enamored with the following video in which Annie Mac gives the first play to Boy 8-Bit's remix of La Roux, Quicksand.