Riley Reinhold

Richard Riley Reinhold , also known as Triple R or RRR , is a German techno - DJ , musician, journalist, radio host and music critic. Together with his wife Jacqueline Reinhold (née Klein) he works for the record label Traum Schallplatten , Trapez , My Best Friend , Telrae , Paintwork and Witch Hazel .

life and work

Reinhold graduated from high school in 1983 at the Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Leverkusen .

From 1984 he was active as a DJ in the Cologne music scene, where he initially played independent . From 1989 he turned increasingly to electronic music . Together with Sascha Kösch , today's editor-in-chief of de: Bug , he founded the Cosmic Orgasm Soundsystem in 1990. They performed together at the first techno and acid parties and first became known to a larger audience in the Cologne area. From 1991 to 1993 Reinhold was part of the DJ team at the Frankfurt label Force Inc. Music Works with Ian Pooley , Tonka , Alec Empire and Thomas P. Heckmann .

From 1994 to 1998 Reinhold worked as a music critic for the magazines Spex and Frontpage . During this time he wrote more than 3,500 record reviews and interviewed numerous artists, such as B. the rather interview- shy Aphex Twin . After Frontpage went bankrupt, he founded the unofficial Frontpage successor de: Bug , the “magazine for electronic aspects of life”, with Sascha Kösch , Mercedes Bunz and Benjamin Weiss .

Reinhold performed live with the Finnish music project Pan Sonic and played together with Carsten Nicolai at events organized by the Chemnitz label Raster-Noton . He worked for the compact record store in Cologne for seven years . Riley was the resident DJ of the Berliner club Elektro , operated by Daniel Pflumm , and later also played in the successor Panasonic . As Triple R he published in 1994 on Peter Wachas label Disko B , the Red Flare EP . The 12 " Rendezvous / Chat was released in 1995 under the name RRR on the Elektro Music Department (EMD) label operated by Daniel Pflumm, Klaus Kotai and Gabriele Loschelder .

In 1998 Reinhold was in Argentina for the German Goethe Institute . The acquaintance with the country's electronic music scene resulted in a collaboration with numerous Argentine musicians. In response to this experience, he founded the label Traum Schallplatten together with his girlfriend at the time and now wife Jacqueline (DJ Anima) in the same year . The first publication on Traum was the compilation CD “ Electronic Music from Buenos Aires ”, which presented Argentine techno and electronic musicians that were largely unknown in Europe up to that point.

The Trapez sub-label emerged from Traum in 2000 and the My Best Friend (MBF) label in 2003. In addition to publications by Gabriel Ananda , Dominik Eulberg , Extrawelt and Minilogue , Reinhold's own publications and, from 2002, the DJ mix series Selection appeared .

The mix CD Friends was released on the Cologne label Kompakt in 2002 and later his first album Friends are Silence on My Best Friend. With the British Steve Barnes records appeared under the name Cosmic Sandwich , in which he mostly acted in the background.

Riley had the weekly radio show "Tiefklang" in 1999 on the radio station Evosonic . Reinhold has been resident DJ in the Cologne club Sensor since 2005. Since then he has been playing records mainly internationally and plays annually in the Berlin techno club Berghain / Panorama Bar.

Together with Steve Barnes he released some singles in 2003 as Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes and under the alias Odyssey . With Jorge Gebauhr he released two records in 2004 under the pseudonym Toro .

In 2007 Reinhold was again active as a cultural ambassador for the Goethe-Institut. In Estonia he presented "Electronic Music from North Rhine-Westphalia" with DJ Martin Juhls .

Since 2008, in addition to his A&R work for the labels Traum and MBF, he has concentrated more on his own productions. Work also followed with artists such as Tim Fehske , who produced videos for Roland M. Dill, [a] pendics.shuffle, Dilo and Reinhold.

In 2009 Reinhold produced a remix for the New York band LCD Soundsystem , whose album 45:33 was released on DFA Records . In the same year he founded the dream sub-label Paintwork .

In 2010 Reinhold began publishing Black Timbre (MBF ltd 12020), for which the multiple Adolf Grimme Prize winner and documentary filmmaker Thomas Schmitt produced a video for the piece I Remember . In April 2010, My Best Friend Ltd. the single Hollow Hills with remixes by Gohan from Paris and Oeler from Cologne . In 2011 he signed the British producer Max Cooper for seven releases.

With his dream label nights, he made guest appearances together with Dominik Eulberg and friends in various German clubs, such as the Hamburg club Uebel & Hazardous and Cologne clubs such as Artheater, Heinz Gaul, Kunstwert and Zimmermanns.

In 2012 he was portrayed as part of a contribution by Creative NRW . In the same year he started the compilation series Tour De Traum and won new producers for the Traum label. His collaboration with the Cologne-based producer duo Salz led to increased activity for the techno-dub label Telrae.

Publications

Albums and DJ mixes

• 2002: Triple R - Friends ( Compact )
• 2002: Triple R - Selection 1 (trapeze)
• 2004: Triple R - Selection 3 (trapeze)
• 2004: Triple R - Selection 3 (trapeze)
• 2005: Triple R - Flashback (My Best Friend)
• 2005: Triple R - Selection 4 (trapeze)
• 2006: Triple R - Electronic Music - Intercontinental 5 (Dream Records)
• 2007: Triple R - Selection 5 (trapeze)
• 2008: Triple R - Selection 6 (trapeze)
• 2009: Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes - Remastered Classics On Trapez (Trapez)
• 2011: Riley Reinhold - Tour De Traum II (Dream Records)
• 2011: Riley Reinhold - Embark 01 (trapeze)
• 2013: Riley Reinhold - Embark 02 (trapeze)
• 2013: Riley Reinhold - Embark 03 (trapeze)
• 2014: Riley Reinhold - Embark 04 (trapeze)
• 2015: Riley Reinhold - Embark 05 (trapeze)
• 2016: Riley Reinhold - Embark 06 (trapeze)

Singles and EPs

• 1994: Triple R - Red Flare EP ( Disko B )
• 1995: RRR - Rendezvous / Chat (Elektro Music Department)
• 1995: Walker & Triple R - Clean up! (XXC3)
• 2003: Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes - Another Airfix (Trapez)
• 2003: Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes - Another Freeflow (Trapez)
• 2004: Toro - Phantom Drive (My Best Friend)
• 2004: Toro - Phantom Planet May (My Best Friend)
• 2004: Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes - Another Day (My Best Friend)
• 2004: Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes - Mondrian (trapeze)
• 2004: Riley Reinhold - Static People (Dream Records)
• 2004: Odyssey - Odyssey / Memories (My Best Friend)
• 2005: Riley Reinhold & Steve Barnes - Black Rain (trapeze)
• 2006: Odyssey - Lights (My Best Friend)
• 2006: Triple R - Friends Are Silence (My Best Friend)
• 2006: Riley Reinhold - Extract From Selection 4 By Triple R (Trapez)
• 2007: Riley Reinhold - Lights In My Eyes / Ghosts (My Best Friend)
• 2007: Riley Reinhold - Lights In My Eyes Remixe (My Best Friend)
• 2007: Riley Reinhold - Lull EP (My Best Friend)
• 2008: Riley Reinhold - Balsamic Times (My Best Friend)
• 2008: Riley Reinhold - Sunset Sound (My Best Friend)
• 2009: Riley Reinhold - Hawk (My Best Friend)
• 2010: Riley Reinhold - Black Timbre (My Best Friend)
• 2010: Riley Reinhold - Hollow Hills (My Best Friend)
• 2011: Riley Reinhold - Bubeshko Apartment (My Best Friend)
• 2011: Riley Reinhold - Mountaintop People (My Best Friend)

Web links

• traumschallplatten.de
• Riley Reinhold at Discogs (English)
• Riley Reinhold on MySpace
• Dollars To Pounds: I Have A Dream - Interview in Fader Magazine from 2008
• Triple R interview ( Memento from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at MNML.nl from 2004 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mysticism makes music - article by Sebastian Züger in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
2. ↑ Electronic Music in Buenos Aires - Article by Thomas Venker in Jungle World
3. ↑ Trans-NRW Express. Electronic music from North Rhine-Westphalia
4. ↑ LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 Remixes on discogs.com, accessed July 7, 2010