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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?

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

yes

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

haha, in this thread even. doh.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

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.

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

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

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

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

― dh, Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

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".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

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

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Spencer: not Jurgen Paape - "Cream"?

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

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

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

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

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

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

― wnk wnkngtn, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

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!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

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.)

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

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

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

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)

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

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.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

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

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

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).....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

i didn't think vahid was making a value judgment

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Really? I think it's implied rather clearly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

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)....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

friednly way

fiendly way

fried way

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

This Field single is *amazing* - so *lush*!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

My favorite thing on Kompakt in ages! I wonder if that's because it's somehow different than their usual output?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

6 is so fucking lush and propulsive. I'm gonna pick up the vinyl so I can mix the snob German minimal shit with some old hands-in-the-air progressive trance. It will be GREBT.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

If you say so!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

THUMP THUMP THUMP

"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!

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Stop hating on Kompakt!

Kompakt loves you!

Kompakt is your friend!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 16 September 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Believe me, I LOOOOOOOVE Kompakt. SOOO much. I love you too! Hugz! Woo! I'm gonna play "Mid-Air" again!

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

losoul's getting even is a really slept on album so if it's getting play at banana republic (ha), then good on them.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

sorry to interrupt the e-talking, please continue.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap, is The Field's "Things Keep Falling Down" single amazing. The b-side, "Thought vs Action," sounds like it samples something (starts about 4:20 in, I think) that I know I should know- I don't know if it's Motown, but it's definitely a soul song and an oldies radio staple- it's the, er, flutey stuff. Does anyone know?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Ah! Diana Ross, "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," I think. I don't have an mp3 handy to compare, but I'm certain that's it.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

songs right but are you sure that's Diana Ross?

― biz, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Actually, no, come to think of it...I finally remembered the chorus and just slapped it into Google with the word "lyrics," which usually gets the correct result. I forgot that such an old standard is bound to have dozens of different versions, at least...who sang the most famous one?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

The Four Tops. You should be embarrassed!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh, but I am. Great is my shame.

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

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

if you feel like you can't go on...!!!and on and on and on and on...!!!
holy shit it's sweet!

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

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

i mean, yes it's obviously hard and takes much skill and grace to get things together so they're just right--few can pull it off. but i wondered the same thing and listened and decided it's probably an approximation or whatnot. blah blah blah. go sleep now.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

It's nice to think everyone is properly clearing samples, but I doubt it's happening. I mean look at the new Minilogue EP on Traum, it blatantly samples Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

j. burger's new & forthcoming releases:

in october

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

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Saturday, 24 September 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Have they actually defrosted Dettinger?!

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

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 24 September 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Spencer: not Jurgen Paape - "Cream"?

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Sounds good.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

it does actually, I thought that too. But surely that style is a classic disco meme, "Can You Feel It" etc etc.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

get one million hairdressing salons playing masters at work and dj deep comps.

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

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

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 2 October 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

The Orb - Okie Dokie It's The Orb On Kompakt (CD 45), bitches!!

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

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

haha that title!

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

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