Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

"superpitcher non album tracks" should do the job.

Hi! I'm here to talk about the Matias Aguayo record! It's great!

Can he have his own thread!

fraximal is like really cold trance in places!

more standing at the back under the air conditioner than bouncing in the heat of the pit

If I knew someone was going to give it a title I would've tagged it Stranger in Town or Back in '72 or something.

I recently put it back up for someone, and a couple others got it around the same time, so it must be floating around more than ever.

dear andy,

i'm your biggest fan. i listened to all the albums that you had on your best-of page last year and agreed with all but three choices. could you please tell me how to get some of the mixes you had on your old doubt beat pages as well as "stranger in town or back in '72 or something"?

sincerely,
nate

ps. is the dj koze album kicking your ass too?

Dear nate,

Thank you for the kind words. Every now and then -- that is, whenever I'm able to update (okay, every one-three weeks) -- I'll be putting up an old mix. One is currently up now.

Jury's out on Koze as I haven't spent much time with it.

Oiy!

i hadn't noticed that you'd put up the fourth edition. I'll definitely check that out when I get back home. Thanks for the mix and the words...you should really put up links to your writing on allmusic - although I can usually guess what you'll write about, it's nonetheless annoying to try to find yr reviews!

For me, the jury's definitely leaning in Koze's favor...

Could some kind soul zip Andy's Superpitcher mix and YSI because it doesn't seem to be on SLSK. Cheers.

It's not a mix if it's what I'm thinking of, it's just a compilation of most of his early singles and a second of remixes. It'd be a lot more work, but you could just download them release by release.

K2 is a new Kompakt sublabel, the first release is on the website now:

Steadycam - "Ding"
KOMPAKTS NEW SUBLABEL FOR CLASSIC MINIMAL TECHNO TUNES OFFERS A BROADER PLATFORM FOR INNOVATIVE (NEW) SOUND ARTISTS. STEADYCAM FROM SWEDEN MAKES THE START.

Kompakt's ad in German magazine Intro already mentions the second one: Hug - "The Angry Ghost".

Our trip to the Total 6 party was cut short unfortunatly as one of our party fainted because of the hugely overcrowded room just before Justus was about to start. Last year's large hall was a much better place to have a party this size. Before things started to get too crowded we had a great time though, especially Tobias Thomas' set was very very nice.

So, what happened afterwards? And who is Rex the Dog??!

So how is K2 different from the Immer label? Is it new 12 inches done in "classic minimal techno" style? Seems like we are heading into sublabel overkill.

And Mayer's new (and slightly skanking) remix of Mikkel Metal nicely uses the vocal hook from "Get Up Stand Up."

i hope kompakt don't do an r&s where all the sub labels diluted it to such a point that it imploded.

the immer release has a kompakt catalog number though...i remember reading the kompakt news which said immer wasn't going to be a sub-label.

Mikkel Metal's "The Difference It Makes" from Total 6 has just been working me lately- I can't go anywhere near it without my ass shifting into get-down auto-pilot mode. The song starts and just TAKES OVER. Sure, it's minimal, but still way too dangerous to play at the office....

How long has he been around?

Duh. I mean "Dorant".

He's been around making the dub for about 4 or 5 years. Most of his stuff is on Echocord, where he released a CD this year called "Close Selections." Fabulous stuff, although not as lush and propulsive as his Kompakt stuff. He's supposed to have Kompakt full length sooner or later but it keeps getting pushed back.

I stand corrected, Immer is not a new label, the "Immer Null" has a release number of Kompakt 122. Thanks Tricky!

But on the other hand: the first Speicher was also released on the main Kompakt label (030).

I just found some more info on K2 on http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3874

For everybody who is interested to know what K2 is, here's
some words by Michael Mayer about it:

K2 is a new Kompakt offshoot or better said a "retention pond" for so much great music we get sent by newcomers and established artists likewise. The mothership Kompakt's schedule is absolutely full with the string of albums to come and a few 12"s inbetween. What's missing is enough slots for classic Kompakt-style minimal techno ep's - which is unbearable for us...

There are already 4 releases lined up on K2.

1. Steadycam - Ding - Steadycam is a swedish newcomer. Ding is his first release and I love it! 4 tracks meandering between profan-ish sample-based minimal and kicking state of the art techno. Great discovery - if you ask me...

2. Hug - The angry ghost - Hug also releases as Huggotron and under his real name John Dahlbäck... Some of the best stuff he did so far...

3. Robert Babicz - tba - I played these two tracks on every festival and they are devastatingly good..

4. Gui - tba - another strong newcomer from Brazil!

John Dahlbäck on Kompakt!!! He has recorded for Dessous, Brique Rouge, Systematic ... This guy is ace (and versatile). I expect to see here his more 'minimal techno' side on K2.

Voigt's 'Ready for Take Off', that has to be one of the most badass tracks ever released on Kompakt! I can't even listen to it in the morning, that drillbeat gets me all psycho

It gets my girlfriend all psycho too. Somehow she always (well, the last two weeks that is) enters the house when that track is playing :-)

Total 6 is so great. Mikkel Metal's gritty track, the wonderfully disco-y Paape track, Köhnke's excellent contributions - it's very diverse.

thats another great quality of Total 6, girlfriends love it

my girlfriend even loooooves that Voigt track as well

triple r in urb (franz ferdinand cover)

could anyone list the tracks he reviews/picks?

thanks

has anyone else noticed that "hicc-up" by dj koze (the opener on total 6) has the same bassline as "music sounds better with you?

haha, in this thread even. doh.

There's a lot of "...______ by _______ sounds like ______ by _______..." on Total 6. Mostly for better (I can't think of any for worse).

And speaking of familiarity, "Panic Room" sounds like the Kompakt track Richard Kelly accidentally left off the Donnie Darko soundtrack.

Of course the press (notably Stylus Magazine) already cited some, if not all, of Kompakt's points of reference on Total 6.

Mayer on Immer

What would be the perfect release on Immer?

Mayer: There are so many forgotten treasures... A perfect couple would be this one: I'm searching for How & Little "Legends" which got released on NuGroove in 1991. They disappeared when NuGroove went out of business. The flipside could be Portable Productions "My Technique", released in the same year on a tiny German label called Toxikk Trakks. Maybe somebody can help me out there?

quiteclicky.free.fr

So I've finally spent some time with Total 6 and it's all rather nice, but the only thing I really like unreservedly and keep returning to is the last track, The Field - "Action".

can anyone ID the track they played after losoul at the banana republic today?

Spencer: not Jurgen Paape - "Cream"?

sorry, there was supposed to be a string of hearts after that

man i'm so over kompakt. it's all new pop and post punk obscurities from now on.

can anyone ID the track they played after losoul at the banana republic today?
-- vahid

FYI- they were rocking Daft Punk at The Gap years ago, ya smart-ass be-otch!

hey vahid, this is out of curiosity, not a dig, but why do you insist on slotting kompakt as as the soundtrack to a lifestyle brand? i mean, maybe i'm blindered here, but i really can't see them getting played at gap inc, as opposed to any bazillion cafe del mar CDs. (though these days i'm betting that they're just playing rock'n'roll anyway.)

I'm wondering why people at this point assume that lifestyle brand soundtracks are automatically bad.

Vahid hates on Kompakt like a Melrose bop hates on last year's styles.

once again the idea that kompakt is any more supermarket music than actual house tradition US house is totally ludicrous. get one flight to europe. get one million hairdressing salons playing masters at work and dj deep comps.

(not that I disagree with Spencer either)

I should expand, it actually hurts me to see Vahid say these things! Isn't this anti-lifestyle brand thing a really ancient dance music hate? It can be used against almost all dance music (or at least most good dance music) and I don't think you are a techno purist Vahid. That's what bugs me, I see the same argument trotted off about Subliminal or ALLHOUSEMUSICEVER or anything with a bloody vocal, and just because in this case it's Kompakt does not change the fact that I think this authenticity stuff is rubbish.

Are people listening to Kompakt records in clubs? Yes. Are DJs buying them? Yes. Are Kompakt DJs selling out venues around the world? Yes.

There isn't any point at which you can invalidate Kompakt's status as a dance label, no matter how many strawmen you erect who supposedly like the label.

You're just criticising Kompakt in exactly the same narrow minded way as a Kompakt fan who attacks a bigroom house label because it's music for pillheads or something. There's no difference between the two positions for me.

i'm beginning to think you weren't really shopping at banana republic today, vahid.

I'm going out on a limb in guessing that a popular argument held by the current bastion of techno purists will claim that the Kompakt machine has steam-rolled over all the classic techno and house that inspired it. This bastion probably finds Kompakt guilty of being historically destructive (as well as unimaginative).

I'm also guessing that this bastion has an average age of about 28, which means that unless they were sneaking into Juan Atkins shows in 3rd grade (at best), their first techno experience came by way of mid-career Moby and The Chemical Brothers (nothing necessarily wrong with this, mind you, but let's be honest about things).....

i didn't think vahid was making a value judgment

Really? I think it's implied rather clearly.

No, this was discussed before- there is a judgment implied (albeit a bratty one), and I'm baiting him into backing it up (in a teasing, friednly way, mind you)....

friednly way

fiendly way

fried way