Ive been getting a lot of beef lately from some “true” heads. They are complaining that my sets have become too commercial, and that sometimes ill play underground tracks, and sometimes ill drop a hit and yada yada.

Whats so funny is. Last week i spoke to Mark Knight, and he is getting the same shit.

I rang him to have a chat about an upcoming release, but we ended up rambling on like two old farts.

Its seems to me that a lot of people frown upon hits, because they belong to the “true” underground.

Whats so funny is, that these days there is no underground anymore. Deep techno tracks, are outselling vocalhouse, and so on.

I love that when i ask these true heads what they like (when they dont like what im playing). They always seem to answer villalobos, sven vath and richie hawtin.

Dont misunderstand me. I have upmost respect for these artists, but i wouldnt actually define them as underground. Off course minimal is a different genre than house, but these days it is equally as commercial as house ever was.

Im missing djs, who actually mix genres. Im not talking eclectic djs, that play downbeat and chill, i would love to hear djs experiment a bit more.

Just a couple of years ago, the best djs would play everything from vocal house to techno, and it was absolutely fantastic.

I remember one of my best nights ever in a club, was listening to derrick may. He was playing his typical percussive techno at around 134 bpm. Then suddenly he drops a samba track. IM not talking a samba sample track, he drops a “live” samba track. Then he moves into an ambient record. Lets it play for 3 minutes, and then he drops a james brown record at around 114 bpm. Then he mixes in another tech recrds, and brings up the tempo on them both at the same time. And he did this on records, not cds. Needles to say the crown went nuts.

This was an absolute eye opener for me. Djs sets are about dynamics. There is nothing more boring than djs playing one genre all night.

These days a lot of djs are afraid of playing a wide set, because they are frightened that someone wont like what they do. WTF is that?!!!

For instance. We have a release of under the water coming up, and a lot of the reactions are, that people will support the dub mix, and not the vocal. This is one of best vocals of all time!!!!! why would one not play the vocal? I simply dont get it.

If it continues like this, we will end up with djs playing completely anonymous records, so that they are sure that they won offend anyone in the crowd.

Is that underground?????

I think the real underground is in taking chances. I salute djs, that want to play the music they like. Be it a phil collins records in the middle of a set, i dont care. If it feels right, then play it!!!!!!!

Rune will once again play at Pride Square for the 2010 installment of Copenhagen Pride. Last year the event drew a crowd of 60.000 to Copenhagen Town Square, so this year we are expecting the weekend to once again be a great one.

Set times:

Friday 20th of August : 22.00
Saturday 21st of August : 20.30

Skanderborg is an amazing festival - no doubt about it!

Photo: Enok Holsegaard

Tron is one of my all time favorite movies, and really changed a lot of things for me when i was a kid.

Here are 11 bits of music for the movie.

I cant wait:-)

Fire Angel from procter on Vimeo.

Here ya go

I said. Off course ffs!!!!!!!!!

new track named Teacup in the works.

But how could i not put on a show for this crowd.

What a party

Morten and Rune have both found time in their busy touring-schedule to play one of their rare and exclusive B2B-sets at this years sold out Skanderborg festival.

It will go down on the night of Thursday the 5th at 02.00.

Rytme Hans stage will be the setting and with a capacity of 15.000 people the two are guaranteed to rip it up.

A quick insight in some of the gigs that Rune RK has played during the last year and a bit.

Enjoy

The theme though is pretty universal. When time moves backwards, ill love you again.

Absolutely stunning vocal by clara sofie.

go grab it here

and listen to it here

We have been getting quite a few foreign remixes in, so i just wanted to let you non danish dudes (and dudettes) be able to read this too.

I just spent a good couple of hours listening through the remixes, and i am stunned about the talent out there. All you guys who havent won, please keep going at it. Some of you have an amazing talent.

If you dont remember, the rules were like this. The 5 remixes with the most views were in the final, and i would choose two of them.

The five remixes with the most views are here.

Please read on…

Out of these five remixes, i have to choose two, and im proud to announce Claes Lang and Christian Amby as the winners.

Of the two, my favorite would be Christians remix. Its very well produced, and adds a different dimension to the original.

Kudos to Claes though. He got an AMAZING 24.660 views. That is absolutely crazy.

So

CLaes Lang
Christian Amby

You guys are on the official release

Great work

Hey wait a minute, im not quite done here.

As there were so many amazing remixes, i had to choose a couple of jokers.

Out of the 69 remixes entered, Obviously the ones entered earliest would get more views than the late ones. Ive been listening all day and i couldn’t leave these out. Its so amazing when you hear people take a completely different aproach to the raw materail, so these guys have been hard at work, and i salute that

This one is just so beautiful. its by Lucien Reden, and has the lowest viewcount of them all ha ha.

i had to have it in the release too.

Check out the amazing chords on this one. Fucking goosebumps is what i get. Remix by Kababo & Kofod

And this remix by Mendez and Muna is so different from the rest. Gotta love it

Again. Thank you all for entering. Its been so much fun
Full release date will be announced.

Rune RK

setlist is here

1 Kirstie Hawkshaw-Fine day-James Holden remix
2 Deepgroove-spike-mark broom remix
3 Simon Baker-death by house
4 Len Fakhi-bx3
5 Faithless insomnia accapella
6 Bjørn svin-mer strøm-rune rk bootleg
7 Gregor Thresher- the now people
8 Ben Klock-subzero
9 Afrojack-pacha on acid
10 Winx-dont laugh-david tort remix
11 Layo and Bushwaka-Remember
12 Hardfloor-Hardtrance Acperience
13 rune rk og alexander brown-raw
14 David Tort-the monkey
15 Parney da castro-batucada-pete heller remix
16 Euhu-De bos-on the run-ralvero get down remix
17 rune rk-calabria accapella
18 sidney samson-shut up and let it go-chuckie remix
19 Sidney Samson-the world is yours
20 La Roux-in for the kill-rune rk bootleg
21 Benni Benassi-Satisfaction-Afrojack remix
22 Zoo Brazil-Fix
23 Mew-Zookeepers boy-rune rk bootleg
24 Paul Ritch-Split
25 Phil Kierian- Again and Again
26 Andre Kreml-safari-James Holden remix
27 Shakedown-at night-rune rk booty
28 MMM-Nous sommes mm
29 New order-confusion-pump panel remix
30 Reel 2 reel-i like to move it-rune rk booty
31 Tiesto-flight 643-laidback luke bootleg
32 Zoo Brazil-Lte at night
33 Rune RK-Calabria-original mix
34 Da hool-Meet her at the loveparade-rune rk booty

You can hear the set here

The official track for RAW 2010 is a collaboration between Rune RK and Alexander Brown and their two labels: Nightology Records and Cutbrook Reords.

RAW is A unique concept, unparalleled line-ups, unconventional use of urban spaces: RAW has since 2004 evolved into Scandinavia’s leading clubbing event.

RAW is the one night of the year where genres and crowds melt together:sharing an experience of music and togetherness, breaking the walls between mainstream and underground.

RAW is the party to which all clubbers, hip-hoppers, techno-heads, rave kids, fashionistas, pop chicks and bass heads look forward: the annual event that encompasses the best of it all.

RAW has achieved a solid cult status standing in all nightlife circles across the country.

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Im in cph bitch LOL

Check out the lighting at the Tiesto show. Crazy stuff.

We went backstage to meet him (he plays some of my releases), but forgot to take a picture. nice work rune:-)

Some shots from the video shoot to “har det hele”. It was freeezing cold btw.

And last but not least. A stretch limo broke down. Iw as wizzed away on the longest trailer ever. So long i couldnt fit it in the frame

Time for some chilling

Kinda funny to imagine that the briefcase is about 5 times the price of the bike ha ha.

Tjeck it out

Info for the non danes. Diller is slang for dick, and the sticker on the statue reads “is this art”

Crazy cat pillow and sci fi table at my moms place. She has the coolest style.

Only problem was, the i pad isnt availlable in denmark yet.

Solution? we made one for him

Here it is in all its glory

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‘Har det hele’ has been a situated in a solid top 20 position on the Danish Single Chart since its release little over a month ago.

With 4 solid remixes being released over the next couple of weeks from some of Denmark’s finest names we thought we would give remixers all over the country a chance to participate.

The 2 best remixes will have their remixes released on Nightology Records on the biggest digital platforms.

Continue reading to see the rules.

Rules for Remix Contest:

1| Download the parts here

2| Make your Remix contribution on whatever software you use

3| Create a video (800 x 450 pixels size) using this background-image using your favorite video-editing tool. (iMovie - Windows Moviemaker etc…)

4| Upload the track to your youtube-account (if you don’t have an account, its about time to get one)

5| Name your video this: “Remix contest - Har det hele (your name-Remix)” example: Remix contest - Har det hele (Flip-Remix)

6| Post video as a response to the original video - This is done by posting a comment - then choose attach video - choose your video - await approval - voila!

7| Start pushing it to your friends and network

8| End of contest - July 1st

9| Out of the 4 videos with the most views Rune Rk will choose the two best remixes to be released on Nightology Records

Start mixing!

Super cool colorway, and nice shape.

check it out