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I can't believe that, six years on from Total 1 (and four years since Kompakt went overground), Jurgen Paape and Schaeben & Voss still haven't released albums.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I sorta imagine Immer 2 as being very Kate Bush... like a Sylvie Marks mix. Acid , Girls & Flowers...

Sylvie is fucking underrated, no?

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

yeah surely Schaeben & Voss are doing something for Firm.

I wish Firm would fulfill its potential.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Ronan I wish you'd been at the live show with Tobias and I, it was the most amazing thing ever. I simply cannot describe how good it was, but it was kinda like... Ketamine house meets the Benni Benassi remix of "Dance Commander" - i.e. hypnotic and trippy and over the top slamming.

So yeah, unfulfilled potential is exactly right.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Some of the stuff is so good, like "Call Me Killer" by Heiko Voss, like a really amazing song and a brilliant track to play when DJing.

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

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

If you judge Firm by their CDs so far, they could pass as an indie rock label!

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? :)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't like TokTok much... but they erm.. left! There's a few singles I don't have/want.

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

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

IMMER 2 has a hell of a lot to live up to :/

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

There's a Kompakt team blog in Swedish over here: http://kompaktliving.blogspot.com/

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 14 November 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

wolfgang for president! - awesome :-D

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

PLEASE ACCEPT WITH OUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, TRACKLISTING OF IMMER 2

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"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

those are never the real tracknames.. ?

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

it's been a while since i've seen the name Blue Six :)

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Um...

THE NEUROMANTIC CRUSADER?!!

― Mika, Monday, 14 November 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

UM "THIS WOMAN'S WORK" !!!

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

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

― Acid house girls and flowers (fandango), Monday, 14 November 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't until I got to the Kaito track that I realised Michael's list was a joke! I was thinking, "oh my god, Lawrence can't be serious..."

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 14 November 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was a bit slow on the uptake. Such specific injokes!

Anyway, greatly anticipating Immer 2 regardless.

― Mika, Monday, 14 November 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Is it sad that I want to hear some of those songs?

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

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 14 November 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Is it sad that I want to hear some of those songs?

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 ;)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 14 November 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

JESSE SOMFAY "MY BED OF MIST YEARNS FOR TRANQUIL SUNRISES"

!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 November 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

let's hope he's reading the thread!!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 November 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Finally listening to Total 6, very nice indeed, 2nd disc trails off a bit after the half way mark but overall great!

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.

― Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy (fandango), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Slooshy, you gotta grab the cd on opposite edges and push the tab in while pulling up on the cd. I, too, thought I might snap the cd but after perfecting this technique have had no problems. Re: 'Action', I can't see how there is even a question that it's 'Reach Out' that it's either sampling or re-creating.

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

i wonder which dahlback it is on speicher 32. older cuz or younger cuz. speaking of which, if anyone's familiar with achewood, i sorta like to think of the dynamic between the two dahlback's as being like the relationship between ray smuckles and little nephew. it's fun!

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

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) I managed eventually, but thanks anyway :)

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.

― Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy (fandango), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

isn't the sample in the Field from "Reach Out (I'll Be There)", was it by the Temptations, this may be completely wrong!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

the four tops. it was discussed a bit upthread as well.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

i wonder which dahlback it is on speicher 32

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

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Nobody mentioned Triola "Unland" (The Modernist Remix)
I think it's a fantastic track. Classic Kompakt stuff.

― nocure, Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Pop Ambient 2006 is gorgeous! Guitars and pianos are much more prevalent, and the Ulf Lohmann track with the live-sounding drums and high pitched voices is stunning. On first listen, It could be the best volume yet, or at least as good as 2003 (my other fave.) In any case, it's at least a bit of a progression of the "pop ambient" sound.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Michael's version of Immer 2 is so my favourite album of the year.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

First IMMER release is out ...
IMMER 001
BENJAMIN DIAMOND "INNER CYCLE"
CONNECTIVE ZONE "FUNCTION"

S&D?

― nocure, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Banjamin Diamond is the singer on Music Sounds Better With You ...

― ifeelspace, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

holy shit that Orb album! beats the pants off their last two. is fehlmann running the show now?

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Friday, 25 November 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kompakt-net.com/video/coolharbour.mov

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

the orb album is wonderful. so thick and juicy.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

The new SCSI-9 single is sweet. And Dahlback finally delivers a great acid tune with the new Speicher.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

From the latest Kompakt-mp3 mailout:

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!

― telephone thing, Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone have any of the previous kompakt mp3 mailouts? Somehow I didn't start receiving them until last week.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

I think I have all of them. You want them forwarded?

― telephone thing, Saturday, 10 December 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

That would be grand!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 10 December 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

heh. Total 6 packaging is staying together fine (nerd).

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

― frickin' username (fandango), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

Just downloaded the Kontrast 12", and after a cursory listen it's fecking great. Deep, surly spacey disco, a lot more dark and functional and "track"-y than I'd expect from something with Koehncke involved, but all good stuff.

― telephone thing, Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Tracky Disco.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 17 December 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to not like The Orb album for some reason but it's actually pretty sweet in it's own little Kompaktish way.

― frickin' username (fandango), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

It's a bit sad, bare and lonely somehow in it's minimalness though, makes me feel old. Is this... micro-goth?

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

― frickin' username (fandango), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

this is not making me sad anymore, but happy :)

― frickin' username (fandango), Monday, 19 December 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Picking it up on sale for $9.99 at Newbury Comics made me even happier.

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Monday, 19 December 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

I want to hear more about Kontrast. Is it really "spacey disco?" If so, I'm gonna need it.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

The A-side is, sort of. Still very technofied, but could fit in with Lindstrom et al. The B-sides...still not sure what to call them. Tech-house, maybe.

― telephone thing, Monday, 19 December 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

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