Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

(And what is The Matrix?)

*I need to know*

Is there some magic dust on all of the 'Timecode' 12"s that makes you break down into some Otto's Irresistible Dance (oh shit! check that Old School reference!) type groove and fall madly in love with Justus or something?

Seriosly- now or never- I'm....afraid.

Here's the Mayer mix:
http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1KQD7TQNTGJFG2D0I0IKJZVV6Q

Oh Justus- how could you?!

Smart cookie, that Mr. Gill.....

it's pretty cool how music can evolve over time...arguably kohncke's original was also a copy in bad taste so now what we have is a reproduction of a reproduction. kind of endemic in dance music ca. 2005.

I know the feeling. My guess: Hall & Oates?

I dunno. I don't find it that shameful since it happens all the time (Daft Punk, Felix da Housecat, supposedly M.A.N.D.Y. too). On the other hand I'll admit I always find it a bit disappointing at first when they rip the hook/punctum of a tune.

losoul using "billie jean"?

soul center?

or luomo & raz ohara...

it's not really an issue for me

(though stuffing up has at least allowed me to realise er objectively that my favourite part is what Kohncke actually brings to the table)

xpost to myself

My head hurts from all this metasimulacra. Simulacrap, anyone?

strimonster has done a mash up of the Lipps Inc. and the Justus, i believe ;) or rather Timecode's superior backing with edited vocals from the older track.

more details here...

*sigh*

2rabimmel, 2rabammel, 2rabum, 2bum bum >>>> Elektronische Musik -Interkontinental 4.

"This word, it's very important..."

* Pure Reason must not prevail.
* Pure Reason must never win.
* Being Purely Sensible must never Triumph.
* Pure Reason should never prevail.
* Pure Reason may never win.

http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2005/07/pure_vernunft_darf_niemals_siegen

Pure reason must never win
We badly need new lies
To guide us across the universe
And to give us the feast of the world
To drive us into delirium
And to sing us to the most quiet slumber
To warn us of the boring truth
And to pity our deepest pain
To rock us in bamboo-baskets
Pure reason must never win

Pure reason must never win
We badly need new lies
To show us the precious of madness
And then to bow to us
To crown us to kings
Only to taunt us secretly
To hiss in our ears
And to wipe our eyes
To fight them, who want to help us
Pure reason must never win

Pure reason must never win
We badly need new lies
To preserve our beauty
But to split us deep inside
Much more: To deconstruct us
And then to touch us tenderly
To lead us into darkness
To resign to our will
And to bend us like soft fences
Pure reason must never win

We are so light, we could fly...

i said somewhere else, i much prefer closer musik when they are split apart, than when they do stuff as closer musik

Also Jess, excellent review in Pitchfork today!

Well done!

surely the "hot love" remix with the singing could not be exceeded by anything for camp!!

Why is that, are you talking about sex, too sexy for you? That's What I love about Closer Musik/Matias Aguayo, He's not afraid of returning dance music to bare sexually. Unlike the sometimes sterile Intelligent dance music. Is it sometimes camp, yeah but A lot more fun dancing to.

Discuss.

(A great review [i.e. in style, substance and sustaining interest] -- regardless of the gas, the requisite P'Fork "...Re-Animator lab mistake of Factory-style gothic indie and chugging house" insider reference, and the "Konpakt." First time in a long time I've read a P'Fork review from start to finish. Maybe since the M.A.N.D.Y. review?)

You don't know me very well, do you?

tracklisting:
1/ DE PAPEL, 2/ RADIO TAXI, 3/ DRUMS & FEATHERS, 4/ WELL, 5/ NEW LIFE, 6/ THE GREEN & THE RED, 7/ ARE YOU REALLY LOST, 8/ SO IN LOVE bonus track: DE PAPEL feat. MAX TURNER

KOMPAKT vs. AREAL RECORDS FALL TOUR

Superpitcher (DJ)
Ada (Live)
Metope (Live)

Thurs-Oct 13 - Chicago, IL
Fri-Oct 14 - San Francisco, CA
Sat-Oct 15 - Portland, OR
Mon-Oct 17 - Seattle, WA
Wed-Oct 19 - New York, NY
Thurs-Oct 20 - Detroit, MI
Fri-Oct 21 - Montreal, QC
Sat-Oct 22 - Quebec City, QC (w/Akufen)

That is so you can easily get closer! A vocoder would've ruined it for me (same goes for the Aguayo album, which is sounding excellent thus far).

CM were like my Beatles or Associates.

i am glad to read about "simplicity of rhythms" on the album. i could listen to that "lovefood" rmx all day.

I want to say the same thing, but Kompakt/Areal realizes that the dancefloor in LA would consist of exactly 12 indie-rocker-but-really-likes-Kompakt guys, and, despite the fact that these guys actually WILL dance, it's too depressing to note that this is because the space will actually be comfortable enough to shake some ass, because there will be plenty of room, because there will be no women nor club-goer types, because LA is a terible city for dancing, because no one wants to mess up their hair or risk looking uncool. So why bother...

Also, that Matias/Alex Turner track "De Papal" sounds a lot like "Risingson" by Massive Atttack!

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2L2NS5S2UUOOB1FFFZEYEUNIUJ

Triple mash anyone?

I'm bringing some soft 70s records to koln for c-o pop ... guess I'll see some of you around?

http://www.c-o-pop.de/

can't. wait.

i wish i could come.....

Thanks in advance.

xpost you really liked the koze track?? the one with the piggy sounds?

but yeah, packed is not good. i could imagine it being rammed. do you kompakt could get arena style events in cologne? why not a 1000-2000 capacity kompakt rave?!??!!

pdf - you should buy the superpitcher "today" mix, the herbert "letsallmakemistakes" mix, the daniel bell "return of the button down mind", my best friend "flashback" cd, michael mayer "immer". i think they are all danceable but soothing, or something. the first of those is awesome.

the 2004 kompakt party was in a hangar sized concert hall! which is apparently empty at the time of this years c/o pop. something went terribly wrong here

xpost, haha.

All really great albums for home or late night dancing.

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.

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?

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.

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...

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??!

How long has he been around?

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!

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

my girlfriend even loooooves that Voigt track as well

could anyone list the tracks he reviews/picks?

thanks

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

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

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

(not that I disagree with Spencer either)

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 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).....

fiendly way

fried way

"WOOOO!!!!"

THUMP THUMP THUMP (woosh woosh click click)

"hey give me another one i think i'm coming off the peak"

THUMP THUMP THUMP (woosh woosh click click)

Grebt I tell you!

Kompakt loves you!

Kompakt is your friend!

...on a related note, how on earth did The Field/Kompakt get permission to sample that? Did they even bother?

might not be a sample. couldn't be too terribly hard to approximate.

in october

triola im dubraum -teil 2
inkl. rmxs by bus / olaf dettinger / mikkel metal / the modernist

http://www.thegreenhead.com/cool-stuff/images/han_solo_carbonite_3.jpg

Honestly, it sounds like the opening loop from a dub of The Tamperer feat. Maya - "Feel It."

hahaha...so true. Is this some sort of EU law?

Anyway...any word on...cough...Immer 2? Or is this an urban myth?

(was running around the house when I put it on the first time, but what i heard was really, really good.)

goofballs.

01 Komplikation
02 Lunik
03 Ripples
04 Captain Korma
05 Kan Kan
06 Rolo
07 Beautitude
08 Cool Harbour
09 Traumvogel
10 Because/Before (Sibirische Musik)
11 Tin Kan
12 Kompagna (Zandic mic)
13 Falkenbruck
14 Snowbow

no 'Masterblaster' sadly. Lovely stuff, sort of the idealistic, carefree and dancey side of The Orb, no more desiccated bad-trip dub. The ambient stuff at the end reminds me of Gas or Markus Guenter.

unnhnh yeah

oh FUCK yeah, oh SHIT, oh.....!!!!1

pantpantpant

ahhhh .... cigarette?

(sorry, I always wanted to do that ;)

http://82.66.50.71/audiofamilies/ficheDL.php?reference=7

Tracklist:

00:00 [a]pendics.shuffle - saw saw soup (robag wruhme mix) - www.orac.vu
03:19 dog vs. dog - keep us away - www.lebensfreuderecords.de
06:34 nathan fake - dinamo (dominik eulberg remix) - www.traumschallplatten.de
10:19 extrawelt - soopertrack - www.bordercommunity.com
12:58 ziggy kinder - viel bass & wenig hund - www.ware-net.de
17:40 frankie - storm - www.frankie-rec.com
20:13 phonique - weapon - www.dessous-recordings.com
23:15 john tejada - voyager - www.paletterecordings.com
29:13 traffic signs - infiltrate - traffic signs
33:02 dj t. - a guy called jack (joakim remix) - www.physical-music.com
35:11 stop disco mafia - bodies (krikor's sweat pony remix) - www.proptronix.com
37:51 dan curtin - conduit - www.tuningspork.com
41:17 mathias kaden - circle pit - www.vakant.net
42:49 dominik eulberg - die invasion der taschenkrebse (justin maxwell remix) - www.traumschallplatten.de
48:10 fark - steffi - www.contexterrior.com
50:11 daniel bell - superminimal - www.logisticrecords.com
53:07 s-max - buddhanath mindful dub - www.telegraph-records.com
55:39 john tejada - mono on mono - www.paletterecordings.com

NOVEMBER

7.11.2005 K2_03 / 12” – ROBERT BABICZ – MISTER HEAD
4.11.2005 KOM CD 47 / LP130 – POP AMBIENT 2006 – VARIOUS ARTISTS
21.11.2005 KOM 129 – SCSI 9 – ON THE EDGE tbc.
SPEICHER 32 / 12” – DAHLBÄCK / BARTSCH

DECEMBER

05.12.2005 K2_05 / 12” – TBA
12.12.2005 KOM 131 / 12” KONTRAST (JUSTUS KÖHNCKE&DIRK LEYERS) – STAMMTISCH DER VERZWEIFLUNG

JANUARY 2006

16.01.2006 KOM CD 46 – MICHAEL MAYER – IMMER 2 MIX CD

I'm looking forward to the Köhncke/leyers collaboration and Immer 2!!

09.01.2006 KOM CD 132 JONAS BERING – BEHIND THIS SILENCE

Who would have thought that Jonas Bering would be the first to release 3 CDs on Kompakt.

Sylvie is fucking underrated, no?

I wish Firm would fulfill its potential.

So yeah, unfulfilled potential is exactly right.

But the rest of that EP is kind of more humorous than good.

Surely a Dahlback release is no surprise. I think he might be running out of labels to release things on, with all the things he's put out in the past few months.

Tim - I think I remember reading or inferring somewhere that Jurgen Paape pretty much stopped working on music to focus on running the Kompakt record shop.

Sylvie Marks is underrated, but then again Fandango is there anyone on Bpitch you don't like? :)

But yeah! otherwise I love Bpitch like crazy :O Everyone has their quirks!

1. SUPERPITCHER "CHANCE FOR ROMANCE"
2. LAWRENCE "THE RAIN FALLS HARD ON A HUMDRUM TOWN"
3. JESSE SOMFAY "MY BED OF MIST YEARNS FOR TRANQUIL SUNRISES"
4. KAITO "BRING TRANCE BACK (TO SAN FRANCISCO)"
5. NATHAN FAKE & JAMES HOLDEN "GREECE 2000"
6. REX THE DOG "DOG IS A DJ"
7. VOIGT & VOIGT "PLUSH NEEDLEPRICKS"
8. DOMINIK EULBERG "LEBEN IST GEBALLTE POESIE, DIE SCHMERZEN LINDERT, WELCHE ANDERE MUSIK VERURSACHT"
9. VILLALOBOS & JAY HAZE "(I'M YOUR) PUSHERMAN"
10. SCHAD PRIVAT "THE NEUROMANTIC CRUSADER"
11. BAXENDALE "NOTHING'S GOING TO STOP US NOW, SARA"
12. BLUE SIX "MUSIC & WINE (MICHAEL MAYER BALEARIC MIX)"
13. JUSTUS KÖHNCKE "THIS WOMAN'S WORK"

THE NEUROMANTIC CRUSADER?!!

(and the Lawrence title too, In fact, all of them :-O )

REX THE DOG "DOG IS A DJ" that one makes me smile :)

Anyway, greatly anticipating Immer 2 regardless.

And I think I'm going to have to put an injunction on Tim from referring to having seeing Schaeben and Schad live.

Not at all, I was a bit slow on discovering the joke too and already was daydreaming how good this was going to be. (The Eulberg title is LOL, altohugh it should have a biological reference ;)

!!!

But WHAT is that sample (if it is one) used in The Field - 'Action'?

The Four Tops' "Reach Out (And I'll be There)" has been mentioned on another thread... I was going to guess ABBA! Though I'm not sure which track of theirs. Either way, I like this too.

(a small 'who cares' moan) The 2xCD jewel case is one of the flimsiest, crappest designs I've ever seen! Took me 5 minutes to get the discs out for the first time, v.surprised it didn't break or snap in the process. Will be replacing that.

also, hope the bartsch side rocks. i like his side of speicher 26, but i always want it to do a little more.

It's more that the nubbins (bit in the middle) need a miniscule bit of plastic cracking off, or rubbing down with use, the first few times the discs go on/off.

They do come out fine now, but even with the technique it's worrying to have the discs flex SO MUCH that first time before the case will let them go as normal. Even WITH a small inward push. It's not so bad on a regular case, but a double makes it even more fiddly. I can't see that 'hinge' lasting too long either.

John D released on K2 a few weeks ago, so...

S&D?

KONTRAST is the name of the newborn Kompakt dreamteam consisting of ex-CLOSER MUSIK member DIRK LEYERS and good ol´ JUSTUS KÖHNCKE. It´s certainly not wrong to say that this project is heavily inspired by Berlin´s wonderful Panorama Bar. Like in this clubs there are no rules on this record than "Enjoy yourself!". Slow is the new fast.

Mentioned upthread already, but: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

That Orb video is funny... it's like Mister Truck Driver ^_^

I also wonder if it won't sound completely anonymous and forgettable in like, six months time.

http://www.kompakt-mp3.net/?DEXXXKOMPAKTXXXKOMPAKT%20MIXMP3%203XXXLIVE@KOMPAKT%20TOTAL%206

also noticed that FE is selling two kompakt slipmat sets - one with the kompakt logo and another set with the speicher logo. sweet.

(probably followed by the biggest backlash this side of Human After All :(

(the reason why I got all excited is that most big online cdshops over here have it on pre-order now with an EAN code. Obviously this lack of a tracklisting, which should of course have leaked in 2004 or so, always was a bit suspicious :(

KOMCD48/KOM133 Mikkel Metal - Victimizer

according to:
http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemID=158082

loving the uber trancey new eulberg on traum, his kids-tv-show-in-koln new one on platzhirsch, and speicher 32 is wicked too? not sure which is the barsch and whioch the dahlback but im really getting back into buying tunes, and i excited! now all i need is somewhere to dance to it outside of my bedroom!

(sorry, just presuming you're still there. a friend's just moved to leeds so I want to visit.)

as for leeds, i think it blew itself up last bonfire night with rex the dog, tomas anderson, trentemoller and chloe all on the same day (with nathan fake and james holden either side of that weekend)

oops, turns out craig richards and magda are playing technique on feb 4th. its a horrible place, but still. ken ishii and dmx krew (?!) playing night before at superconductor. thats in a good place instead.
might be worth checking basics, asylum and darkside line ups as well, as stuff sort of comes on occasionally.

generally there is a glut of nights, with insane competition between them, i have no idea why.

barcelona, nitsa club, sala apolo

dominik eulberg 21/1
wighnomy bros 28/1

:( :( :( :(

eulberg on the 21st sounds the way to celebrate.

WOW.

either way, you should probably end up at kadahs by the corn exchange for mint tea c.5/6 am.

eulberg and ananda! ananda was playing at fabric on NYE but we were otherwise engaged. dont look gifthorses in the mouth!

I thought it was crap on my first listen but really got into it in the end.

a) the original
b) Eulberg
c) something you've never ever heard before

Really been into the "Issst" remix lately, love the way it gets more and more syncopated and then it's like something breaks in the track and it becomes full on breakbeat house.

does anybody have a higher batting average? he seems to consistently put out great stuff.

Thanks for mentioning this, it's great!

http://www.harknessav.org/makeyoufeelgood/makeyouweb.mov

KLIKS PRESENT KOMPAKT
SATURDAY 18.03.06
CONCORDE2, BRIGHTON

http://kliks-net.com/

Main Room:
DJ KOZE (International Pony, Hamburg)
THE MODERNIST - live (Popular, Düsseldorf)
LEE SMITH (IDJ Magazine/kliks)

Bar:
MARK LERMAN (kliks)
CARL WICKER & GRAHAM SCOTT (kliks)

It does go on from midnight until 5am, with the option of staying open later if it is still busy. If it does close there are now a number of other bars and clubs in Brighton which stay open until later, and from then it is a simple matter of sleeping on the train/coach/plane/whatever. One of the bars is starting a 'minimal' session every Saturday from next month which goes from 3am until midday. Thank the lord for Tony Binge Blair.

Here is part of the press release, which explains about Koze’s DJ style. I’ve also heard him described as “acapellas over minimal”.

DJ KOZE:
Currently Germany's biggest DJ (voted DJ of the year for the last five years in the highly respected SPEX magazine), DJ Koze is without doubt the most formidably talented exponent of minimal turntablism in existence right now. A former runner up in the World DMC Mixing Championships, his jaw-dropping deck skills are in constant demand the world over. Renowned for his wildly eclectic, club-shattering musical selection, you're as likely to hear him spin the Beatles and Otis Redding as you are Plastikman, all tied together with blisteringly on-point technical skill. He's released a string of hit club records on Kompakt, including last year's acclaimed 'Kosi Comes Around' LP, and is also a member of Skint Records' hugely popular electro-disco act International Pony. As if that wasn't enough, he's also behind the chart-topping German Hip-Hop trio Fischbein. We await his debut Kliks performance with baited breath...

THE MODERNIST - live:
An undisputed legend of European dance music, Jorg Burger (aka The Modernist) started releasing records way back in 1988 with his long-time partner, Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink, founder of Kompakt). Over the next decade, the pair assaulted the world's dancefloors with a bewilderingly prolific surge of classic records, combining the raw intensity of early Detroit techno with their own unique brand of distinctly European, acidic trippiness. Under a plethora of aliases (including The Bionaut, Burger Industries, Autobianchi, and currently, Triola, plus many more) he pretty much defined what is now known as 'minimal', and is cited as the key influence by countless contemporary producers and DJs. Along with Voigt, he founded the Delirium record store in Cologne, which went on to form the basis of the Kompakt empire, as well as editing Dance Attack Magazine and releasing a bona fide mainstream smash LP on EMI (The Bionaut's 'Lush Life Electronica'). Burger's rich, timeless, elegant sound has yet to be surpassed by any of today's laptop generation, and his super-rare live performances have now reached near-mythical status. Don't miss the chance to catch a genuine pioneer in action.

LEE SMITH:
Co-founder of Kliks and original Brighton minimalist Lee Smith has been spotted face down in numerous ditches across Europe this year. Somehow, he always manages to rock the dancefloor and cobble together a coherent minimal reviews page for IDJ magazine, which you'll know is quite an achievement if you've ever seen him on a night out. He writes for loads of sites and music rags and is one of only four UK DJs to have played at Kompakt's seminal Total Confusion club in Cologne. He'll DJ for anyone who offers him a footlong Subway Sandwich and a couple of cans of Tennants.

FISCHMOB

i hope 3-12 clubbing catches on, ive never seen that kind of thing work outside of berlin

why must the handful of nights in the uk that promote this stuff have no coordination at all it seems!!!! someone gets flown over for kliks, then goes home, someone else comes over for technique in leeds, then goes home. surely it is logical for these people to stay and play a few dates? i bet no one else has booked koze to play anywhere...nearer me for instance, around the time hes here. can anyone prove me wrong?

of course, truly sensibly would mean "somewhere where i dont have to travel 1hr+ to see him", in my world.... ;)

Kompakt CD 46 - Michael Mayer: Immer 2
Kompakt 134 - Axel Bartsch
Kompakt 135 / CD 49 - Kaito: Hundred Million Light-Years
Kompakt 136 - Herve Ak
Kompakt 137 - The Field
Kompakt 138 / CD 51 - SCSI-9
Kompakt 139 - Superpitcher
Kompakt CD 50 - Klimek: Music To Fall Asleep
Kompakt Extra 33 - The Orb / The Rice Twins
Kompakt Extra 34 - Oxia / Oxia

also, these next releases make me sort of curious and excited.

im loving the description for the new basteroid 12":

AREAL 35 BASTEROID SCHNITZELMACHINE 12"

THE STORY I´M TELLING YOU NOW, BEGINS TRAGIC, IT BEGINS WITH THE DEATH OF A CALF. TO ADD SOME SENSE TO THIS INCIDENT, SO TO SAY IN RETROSPECT, I RECCOMEND TO STAY ON
COURSE WITH THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOL! BEST REGARDS, SCHNITZELMACHINE
1. NEVER BUY PRECUT VEAL - YOU NEED 6MM SCHNITZELS
2. WE NEVER TREAT THEM WITH A HAMMER, BECAUSE NOW THEY HAVE THE PERFECT STRENGTH
3. WE GIVE SALT AND PEPPER FROM BOTH SIDES - THE PERFECT AMOUNT OF BOTH COUNTS!!!
4. WE FILL A BIG PAN WITH SUNFLOWEROIL, AT LEAST 1,5 CM
5. WE PREPARE THREE SOUPPLATES, ONE WITH MIXED EGGS, ONE WITH BREADCRUMBS AND ONE WITH WHEATFLOUR. FIRST WE PUT THE SCHNITZEL IN THE FLOUR FROM BOTH SIDES, THEN WE
DIP IT DEEP INTO THE EGGS AND FINALLY INTO THE BREADCRUMBS.
6. WE PLACE IT IN A HOT PAN AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE FINE WHITE NOISE AND THAT THERE IS NO CRACKING FROM A PAN THAT IS TO HOT. FLIP THEM, READY - THE COAT OF BREADCRUMBS
SHOULD HAVE BIG BUBBLES THAT COME OFF A LITTLE BIT - IT IS RECOMMENDED TO SQUEEZE AT LEAST HALF A LEMON ON EVERY PIECE! ENJOY

i can't seem to find confirmation about this wighnomy bros. montreal show though!!

JANUARY 2006
30.01.2006 ALBUM / LP 133 KOM CD 48 / MIKKEL METAL – VICTIMIZER

FEBRUARY 2006
20.02.2006 / 12’’ / K2 08 / MUFO – C.L.A.U.D.I.A.
27.02.2006 / 12’’ / SPEICHER 33 / THE ORB/THE RICE TWINS

MARCH 2006
06.03.2006 / 12’’ / KOM 134 / AXEL BARTSCH – TBA
13.03.2006 / 12’’ / K2 09 / GUI BORATTO – SOZHINO
20.03.2006 / 12’’ / SPEICHER 34 / OXIA – OXIA
27.03.2006 ALBUM / KOM CD 49 LP 135 / KAITO – A HUNDRED MILLION

APRIL 2006
03.04.2006 / 12” / K2 10 / TBA
10.04.2006 / 12’’ / SPEICHER 35 / TBA
18.04.2006 ALBUM / KOM CD 50 / KLIMEK – MUSIC TO FALL ASLEEP
18.04.2006 / 12’’ / KOM 136 / HERVÉ AK – PART TIME
24.04.2006 / 12’’ / K2 11 / TBA

MAI 2006
02.05.2006 MIX CD / KOM CD 46 / MICHAEL MAYER – IMMER 2
08.05.2006 / 12’’ / KOM 137 / THE FIELD – TBA
29.05.2006 ALBUM / KOM CD 51 DOLP 138 / SCSI-9 – TBA

JUNE 2006
12.06.2006 / 12’’ / KOM 139 / SUPERPITCHER – TBA

I heard he was very good.

londond sucks

I can't wait until he plays down here!

The Orb

17th March 2006: San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s
18th March 2006: Los Angeles, CA @ Disney Concert Hall (The Orb, John Tejada, Dntel, and Boom Bip)
22nd March 2006: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
27th March 2006: Miami, FL (TBC)
29th March 2006: Boston, MA @ Avalon
30th March 2006: Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
31st March 2006: Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
1st April 2006: New York, NY @ Avalon

Justus Köhnke (live band) & Tobias Thomas (DJ)

17th March 2006: Montreal, Canada (Neon Loves Kompakt) @ S.A.T.
(with Thomas Meinecke lecture @ 7PM followed by show)
19th March 2006: Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli
(with Thomas Meinecke lecture @ 8PM followed by show)
21st March 2006: Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle 1035 N Western
23rd March 2006: New York, NY @ The Canal Room 285 W. Broadway
(with Thomas Meinecke lecture @ location tbc)
24th March 2006: Portland, OR @ Holocene
25th March 2006: San Francisco, CA @ Boca
(with Thomas Meinecke lecture @ location tbc)

Michael Mayer

27th April 2006: New York, NY @ Cielo
28th April 2006: Chicago, IL @ Smart Bar
29th April 2006: Detroit, MI @ Paxahau
30th April 2006: Outside L.A. – In the Desert

paradies?

Thomas Meinecke is a guy from Munich. He's the mastermind of the band FSK, actually a quite well-known postpunk band (in Germany at least). Very postpunk now, I mean they exist for 25 years. For their last album their cooperated with Anthony Shake Shakir. Apart from that he's a writer. Don't know if his novels are translated: an interesting mixture of Kodwo Eshun, Judith Butler and listening to lots of techno.

Really nice guy.

for sure!

http://jurgenmacho.blogspot.com/

Meaning it's floating somewhere in close (but not too close) vicinity of the sun? That'd be really nice...

i am v. v. sad about this!

It's not Dettinger

if you go to kompakt-net.de and click on 'dates' -- there are no U.S. dates listed for anybody until mayer at the end of april.

what song from some time ago references "true to life" by roxy music?

perhaps a kompakt production?

does anyone know instantly?

it is not roxy music alone ,either. a very nice combination that continues to hold true today.

DJ Koze – Raw (Matthew Dear Remix) (Kompakt)

01 - My Grandmother (Jan Jelinek remix)
02 - Bobby (Koze's Bonus Mix)
03 - Raw (Audion Remix)

on it's way in the mail! anyone heard it yet?

heard good things about the Klimek album as well...

that should've been a picture of Speicher 35:
A - Superpitcher "Enzian"
B - Stardiver "Borderline"

also i am completely loving 'domino' by oxia. which i think was off speicher 34.

oxio - domino is a very, er, faithful homage to Chardronnet's Eve by Day!

I like pretty much all of them.

also, kind of related since most of his stuff is under the kompakt distro umbrella - BUTANE. man, all of this guys music is sick! i thought his releases on dumbunit and rrygular were ace, but the new one on num is his best yet (tinker toy/your bassline needs some work)

And is there any new, um, news on the SCSI-9 album (last I heard to be called The Line of Nine)?

but...but...it should be an honour to appear on Immer?!?

yes! i just got this, and i love it....esp the herbert double up on "going round"...pity that tune appears to cost £15-20 now :(

"Now Rex the Dog, one of Kompakt's prize minimalistas..."

-Can someone tell me how Rex the Dog's productions can be construed as being minimalist in even the most vague sense of the word? None of his productions would seem to warrant the tag, much less his bigger known singles and remixes (eg. Frequency, prototype, etc.) Has it come to the point where if you make techno and you're from Germany that it *must* be "minimal"?

Ambrose I think you're thinking of the first Michael Mayer mix, which is great yeah. Koeln Kompakt 1 was just a comp of standalone tracks from vaguely related labels (e.g Profan) before Kompakt had released anything.

The Mayer mix was actually much more of a blueprint of what the Kompakt sound would turn out to be.

this
as opposed to
this

i suppose

clueless as ever...

i reckon "other exercises" and "isoplace" are big tunes

the stephan g tune sounds like poker flat stuff!

byron c, stephen g... who the hell are these people!

yeh fackeln im sturm is heavy too

KOM137 THE FIELD - SUN + ICE

FAR FROM ANY SHORT-TERM TRENDS, THE FIELD TELLS US THE STORY OF POP LOOPS. MOST STUNNING CRACKLING SOUNDS EMBEDDED IN SOUND PLANES AND SUPPORTED BY BASS DRUMS.

01 OVER THE ICE
02 ISTEDGADE
03 A PAW IN MY FACE
04 SUN & ICE

I loved their first one. I had kinda hoped this would be two side-long tracks as well, but I'm still very interested.

Also, I love the Superpitcher track on Speicher35 (Enzian): slow, gorgeously, seductively slow, climbing, (only just) lifting off - it's his V-2 Schneider :-)
The Stardiver track's great too, and even slower. Oscillating.

I just got the Kaito album, and after two albums, it is indeed quite air and innocuous (but I'm sure it's supposed to be). I just can't tell if it's consistently good or just consistent. It's easy to ignore, but it's also quite beautiful. What are others thinking about it?

I just got the Kaito album, and after two listenss, it is indeed quite airy and innocuous (but I'm sure it's supposed to be).

I just got the Kaito album, and after two listens, it is indeed quite airy and innocuous (but I'm sure it's supposed to be).

A Michael Mayer set from last week in Barcelona - "Touch" into Alan Parsons "Where do we go from here"! http://www.play.fm/playfm_artists.php?p_id=2383

Gui Boratto is my new favourite producer. "U-Bahn" off his Audiomatique release is absolutely amazing.

Also credit where it's due, I don't normally like John Dahlback but his latest Hug 12 on K2 is ace, the title track is a bit evocative of the music in "Taxi Driver", plus there's a great Smagghe style track on the flip.

Also Ronan you have to hear Geiger's "Night" immediately. It's amazing.

'The Platform' is a good 'un. Dahlback can pull them out of the bag sometimes, 'Snabeln', 'Glass Houses', 'Pop it Bad'...

Anyway, Geiger's "Night" (yeah, I know, not kompakt, but whatevs): first half is this weird muted ambient thing with odd vocals somewhere in the background and a low-end thump, kinda like the first Aphex Twin album maybe? Isolee's

So THAT's how it all works! Hmmm.

Cologne techno label Kompakt will release the next double cd of the Total series “Total 7? on August 21st.
In the scope of this release KOMPAKT will present Total 7 at the c/o pop event in Cologne tomorrow:

c/o pop Festival, Kompakt Total 7, August, 25 2006:

Live: Gui Boratto, Reinhard Voigt, Aguayo & Roccness, The Modernist
DJs: Michael Mayer, DJ Koze, Tobias Thomas, Superpitcher
Adress: Festivalzentrale, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3-11 , Köln/Cologne
Time: 10 pm - open end
Costs: 18 EUR , door 20 EUR or Festivalticket 69 EUR

Track list “Total 7?:

CD 1

01. Kontrast - Grey Skies
02. Triola - Polarzipper (Wighnomy Bros remix)
03. Gui Boratto - Arquipelago
04. Justus Köhncke - Love and Dancing
05. Thomas/Mayer - Sweet Harmony
06. The Modernist - Pearly Spencer
07. SCSI 9 - When She Said Goodbye
08. Superpitcher - Tonite
09. DJ Koze - Getreidephunk
10. Wighnomy Bros - Wombat
11. Mikkel Metal - Ulyt
12. The Rice Twins - For Penny and Alexander

CD 2

01. Gui Boratto - Like You (Supermayer remix)
02. Wassermann - In Tyrannis 2006
03. Robert Babicz - Sonntag
04. Steadycam - Knock-Kneed
05. Jurgen Paape - Take That
06. Hug - The Happy Monster
07. Axel Bartsch - Redlight
08. Reinhard Voigt - Tranceformation
09. Thomas Fehlmann - Saft
10. The Field - Over the Ice
11. Oxia - Domino
12. Jonas Bering - Melanie

Hilarious! Fits in with "Tomorrow," "Yesterday," and "Today."

This has a lot less "hits" then Total 6 (although good to see Wolfgang back again,) but hopefully should pick up the slack in a sorta uneventful year for Kompakt.

Also why has Superpitcher gone out to pasture?

Immer 2 = the new sequel to Loveless.

LOL

Also, Thomas/Mayer - Sweet Harmony, cover of The Beloved? Should fit right in somehow.

Michael Mayer @ Apolo-Nitsa 13.05.06 is excellent set btw.

Might as well have a go myself: what's the track around 56:00 - 59:00, the one with the filtered-to-fuck drums and the voice going something like "meditation...manifest".

googling suggests Josh Wink's "Meditation Will Manifest"

Ha, from 1994 on R&S, that's why it was triggering buried memories.

I haven't heard all those mixes, or any of them, but maybe Tobi Neumann might be a good place to start Robin, is more minimal technoey than electro.

James Holden @ Loft Lausanne is excellent.
I also liked Miss Dinky @ Room 106

Mmm, Sven Vath @ Flex looks pretty good.

Didn't like Villalobos @ Voltt

I dunno, the distinctions b/w the different sublabels seem increasingly academic... how is "Wombat" a "Speicher" track? Or "Arquipelago" a K2 track?

Perhaps they've decided to keep the double-cd format for Total from now on and pad it out with tracks from the sub-labels, rather than compile them all separately.

It makes a lot of sense though. Total 6 was kind of the "been away for a while so here's double" release. Total 7 in the same format would arguably need some padding out drawing from a shorter timespan of releases?

I like the consolidation format better anyway, it adds a bit more diversity. I don't think the Pop Ambient series will be going away, even though there was a drought of new productions a couple of years ago.

This brand of epic mutilated machinic groove with lots of twinkle-riff high-end action seems to be the creative-center of minimal/electro/whatever-house at the moment. There's this whole cluster of different artists converging on this idea: people like Boratto, Afrilounge/Chardronnet, Jona, Someone Else, and then also so many of the big names (Booka Shade, Eulberg, Ananda). I guess it makes sense b/c it's sort of like the midpoint b/w Kompakt/Traum on the one hand and Get Physical at the other.

I was listening to a Stephan Bodzin mix the other night and was surprised to find myself in complete thrall. I thought the gothy riffy impulses (almost Black Strobe updated for 2006) would be a bit familiar, but it was all so compulsive. Towards the end of the set he played Booka Shade's "Trespass 06" and it sounded absolutely huge in that setting.

....

Go here!

here!

I really like his tracks with Marc Romboy "Phobos" and "Ferdinand".

His website gives that impression... also they're in electrochemie together obv.

Yeah the moogs!

the original isn't anything special, but the Supermayer remix is a TOTAL FUCKING ANTHEM

Both seem like kind of worse versions of Superpitcher remix of the MFA. I guess the original is nice, the first time I heard it I really liked it, but subsequently I just thought it sounded like a less good version of lots of other Superpitcher tracks too.