Two paths.
One sound.

Long before Rolla Tunes existed, music had already shaped both of our lives.

Ralph started experimenting with hip hop as a kid, writing his first Swiss German rhymes before discovering computer-based production as a teenager. Samples, breakbeats, hardware synths and late-night studio sessions followed — along with an early love for Jungle and Drum & Bass that never really disappeared.

Olivia had been singing since childhood, moving through choirs, bands, hip hop, drums, songwriting and studio work. Her voice took her into professional productions and onto stages in front of large audiences — but the more other people tried to define what she should sound like, the more important it became to create music on her own terms.

Then, in 2020, those two paths crossed.

And it went BOOM.

When we met, Olivia had been working for years on a song called Ich Ziehe Los. It was deeply personal — and something she had never trusted another producer to touch.

Until Ralph.

After more than a decade away from active music production, he added heavy drums and synths to the track. Something clicked. Ideas started flowing, the song opened up — and suddenly we were sitting there listening to something neither of us could have created alone.

We knew we had found something.

Soon the studio was alive again. More songs followed. During one of countless late-night sessions, R.olla Tunes was born — Ralph and Olla.

What started as two people making music together had become an identity.

During one of our late-night sessions, the idea for R.olla Tunes took shape — Ralph and Olla.

Olivia grabbed a pencil and started sketching. What began as a rough drawing on paper became the puma that still defines the visual identity of Rolla Tunes today.

There is no formula for a Rolla Tunes track.

Ralph often starts with beats, basslines, sound design or an idea for a tune. If it catches Olivia, melodies, lyrics and vocals can appear almost instantly. Other tracks begin with her ideas. Some are built together from the first sound. Some emerge almost completely from one side before the other leaves their fingerprint on them.

The only real rule is that the song decides what it needs.

That freedom is why one Rolla Tunes track can be soulful and fragile while the next is cinematic, raw or built unapologetically for a soundsystem.

Drum & Bass is home.

But home was never meant to be a cage.

In January 2021, we independently released our first tracks. Seeing our own music appear on streaming platforms was enough to make us wonder what else might be possible.

So we kept going.

One slightly ambitious Instagram message later, US hip-hop veteran Sadat X was recording vocals for The Flow.

In 2022, Rolla Tunes became one of ten winners of the Züri-Oberland music promotion award, with the jury highlighting the versatility, strength and professional production of our songs.

Since then, the journey has taken us through releases, collaborations, videos, stages, experiments, successes, failures and more than a few unexpected turns.

And through all of it, the idea behind Rolla Tunes has remained surprisingly simple:

Make the music we want to hear. Make it together. See where it takes us.

Rolla Tunes has never been about arriving at a finished version of ourselves.

The music changes because we change.

Sometimes it's vulnerable. Sometimes it's beautiful. Sometimes it needs a filthy bassline and a breakbeat at 176 BPM.

Usually, it needs all three.

This is our journey.

And we're nowhere near done.