Five For The Funk: Jon Rundell (Intec)

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As Carl Cox's right hand man, Jon Rundell has over the past eight years established himself as an internationally acclaimed DJ, producer and record label boss. Since joining Coxy at the celebrated Intec imprint in 2006, Rundell has helping relaunch the label for the digital age whilst also undertaking A&R duties, resulting in Intec now enjoying one of its strongest periods yet.

His constantly evolving adaptive production style has also seen him land a series of big hitting Beatport chart successes, and repeat plays from some of techno's leading pioneers, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice and Dubfire to name a few.

With a forthcoming appearance for Carl Cox's birthday edition of Music Is Revolution in July (more on that here), we caught up with the Intec label manager to find out his all time top five favourite releases from the imprint over the years.

Renato Cohen 'Pontape'

Nothing else like it before or since, a seminal classic techno record. It's totally unique and you really have to know this record inside out to play and have its best effect on people. I remember the first time I heard it, I was at indoor warehouse techno party in Holland and Misstress Barbara dropped it, blew my mind. 

Tomy DeClerque 'Raw'

Absolutely destroys floors every single time. Tomy has this unique ability to create a real energetic dirt lead synth, bass and percussive driven full power monsters. A seriously under rated producer and I encourage anyone to check him out. 

Carlo Lio 'Coppa'

Great tribal infused record with a techno undertone. Carlo has this ability to make records in his own style yet also always manages to evolve. 'Coppa' was an early release with us from him, and it crossed over from within the techno scene to the house too. One for the Space or Amnesia terraces every time. 

Bryan Zentz 'DClash'

Another classic unique record from Bryan's album on the label. When you hear the melody it just gets you every time. Techno back then was open to more exploration perhaps too, every record on the album sounded different to the next.

This was the one that became the hit, it's such a greatly produced track, it's stripped yet it has this underbelly of raw emotion and some power inside it somehow. 

Jon Rundell 'Knick Knack'

I guess I had to mention this. It broke the mould for me and went to the overall number one spot on Beatport for six weeks, a great achievement for an underground record. I had no idea when it was finished what would happen next, I made it as a filler record for people to take a small break with and never once thought it was going to connect with people in such a way that it did. 

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