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is at the tip of my tongue

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.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 6 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

It's Ace, featuring Paul Carrack, a huge UK hit in 1975. (Carrack also played piano on the Smiths' 'Reel Around the Fountain' and was in Mike and the Mechanics, mind-bogglingly).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 6 August 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

It's "How Long" by Lipps Inc. (of "funky town" fame).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 6 August 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

whatever. this is what justus kohncke DOES. how about "lucienne" off of his first album? it uses "spasticus autisticus".

losoul using "billie jean"?

soul center?

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 7 August 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

losoul using "billie jean"?

or luomo & raz ohara...

it's not really an issue for me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

The only problem with the new vocal version is the lack of that burbling bass sound from the original (the bit that made "Timecode" one of a pair with "Heiden").

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Tim, that's not a new vocal version by Koehnke, it's a Lipps Inc. track from 1980 or so that keoenkhe has, ahem... appropriated?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 7 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

A ha! I've totally misinterpreted the last few posts - thought this was Kohncke covering the Lipps Inc track... I'd been wondering what everyone was getting so worked up about!

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

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 August 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

although the Lipps Inc track is itself a cover of "how long has this been going on" by Paul Carrack (as mentioned above) - it's not really the Paul Carrack elements of the song that justus has used but the Lipps inc. ones.

xpost to myself

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 7 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I believe How Long was written by Carrack, who then brought it to Ace, which was then covered by Lipps, Inc. which was then re-interpreted by Justus, which is now probably being reedited, (is there a timecode remix?!).

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

― david_day (dayvidday), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

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.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I'll put the mashup I made on my next podcast at Stylus. Nothing fancy, just Timecode's superior backing with edited vocals from the older track.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 8 August 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

im glad someone did an edit...

more details here...

― colinnagy, Monday, 8 August 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Hey Colin! Sorry we didn't get to meet up at Superpitcher.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 8 August 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

It appears Tuesday, August 23 is U.S. street date for Total 6. Certainly was hoping it'd be sooner than the first day back at school.

*sigh*

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

They already have it at Forced Exposure, so if you get lucky it will get to you before then.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

it's not that good. i much prefer elektronische musik interkontinental 4.

― beatles fan, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

total 6 on my birthday. this is perfect.

― jerginsk (jergins), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Forced Exposure has the double vinyl, but no sign of the double-CD I'm after. At least not yet. I was listening to Elektronische Musik Interkontinental 4 in the car just this afternoon and thinking, "I need to listen to this more. More!" (And 3, too.)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

jed - my edit just uses the lipps inc. version.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

here's the edit - http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2R2K2P47L2SPE3AO2H3XMHSBK3

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

ah i thought it was a timecode/lipps inc mixy thing. *clueless*. cheers.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

the only thing i don't like about elektronische musik interkontinental 4 is that "dinamo" trumps everything else on it.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

nice edit, twitch - you took out all of the crap parts. :) do you play it out?

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

i do.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Upon further listening:

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

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

The relevant point being Total 6 remains to held up against the two aforementioned. I guess that'd count as my second xpost, to myself, following soon after the first.

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

i heard superpitcher and schaeben + voss at banana republic today...

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher was on Beats In Space recently, did anyone else get it? The set is not astounding by his standards but he talks to Tim Sweeney at the end for 10 minutes and it's hilarious.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

and they play Coltrane at Starbucks back-to-back with that Alanis acoustic album and the world is sometimes a horrible, lonely place....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Beats in Space sets are available for download at http://www.beatsinspace.net/, if anyone hasn't noticed it from past threads.

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

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

That Superpitcher interview is hilarious and awesome. For those who haven't heard it, he mentions he has a new 12" coming out on Kompakt soon-ish, plus remixes for Andreas Dorau and Lawrence. Also he has finished a new Speicher track.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

"Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen" = either/or:

* 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

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing the 12" Superpitcher's referring to is going to be "Tell Me About It"? Simple as the track may seem, it's proven to be a real grower, I keep going back to it. Mmmm, picking up my copy of Total 6 in a few hours...

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

Having heard the interview (him trying to translate the Tocotronic song-title :-D), I guess the 12" will be a new thing. And he's going to do another Speicher, too!

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I have to say "Tell Me About It" has grown on me alot.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

M.Mayer's Baxendale remix, Am I the only person to really love this song? I played it at a party last week, towards the end of my set, and a girl even screamed. It left me with chills. One the best song climaxes period.

― Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought that Baxendale remix was slightly icky the first time I heatrd it but now I unreservedly love it, the falsetto explosion must be one of the most amazing moments in music this year.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

i love it. the falsetto bit doesn't last long enough!

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

yr certainly not the only person to love it, look on the total 6 thread (or was it the justus thread) for more debate. i think i still prefer the original, just cos it has more of that bit where it goes in to harmony singing.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Here are the lyrics to Pure Vernunft darf niemals siegen translated by Tocotronic f.w.i.w:

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...

― david day (winslow), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Got the vinyl Total 6 today. I like the Jurgen Paape alot, and the Superpitcher has won me over now. The DJ Koze is great too, even if I am sure that bassline was used in a really cheesey pop prog hit, that "Deepest Blue" record that charted about a year or two ago, anyone in the UK would remember it maybe?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

sounds a bit like stardust doesnt it

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

so apparently matias agayo (ex-closer muzik) is going to be releasing something on kompakt soon that the label is very, very excited about. not sure if it's a full-length or not.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

if it's anything like the lovefood rmx/slow, i would be exited too!

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

the closer musik album is AMAZINGLY slept on

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

mystifyin even

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

yup, love that album too. it's sexy without affectation.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

and it's pretty fair to say that "one two three (no gravity)" is one of kompakt's best. i don't know anyone who's heard it that doesn't like it.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Great tune!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

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i'd say half or less ends up on Total comps (which contain mucho exclusive tracks.. so yeah might as well stick with CDs)

at least buy this, you need the superpitcher remix

https://www.discogs.com/The-MFA-The-Difference-It-Makes/release/335616

― brimstead, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:28 (ten years ago)

christ, 14 For Sale from $24.88

― brimstead, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:29 (ten years ago)

pro tip go to spotify type in label:kompakt put it on shuffle

― oh, amazonaws (wins), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:31 (ten years ago)

pro tip go to spotify type in label:kompakt put it on schaffel

― scott seward, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:57 (ten years ago)

i have listened to kompakt on spotify on PS4 before while playing my beloved Resogun. but i can't take too much Spotify sound. makes me cagey.

― scott seward, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:04 (ten years ago)

i am currently the 20th greatest Resogun:Demolition player in the world by the way.

― scott seward, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:05 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

Made myself a couple of "German" CDs for a holiday - To Rococco Rot, Tarwater, Mouse on Mars, a few tracks from the Dial label and lot of Kompakt. Had forgotten how much joy mid-noughties Kompakt brought me. Must have a catch-up ...

― djh, Saturday, 17 September 2016 19:35 (nine years ago)

autumn + kompakt = perfection.

i really enjoyed the hunter_game album.

the weval one though didn't really do much for me.

― mark e, Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:10 (nine years ago)

There's a Michael Mayer collaboration album coming out on XL shortly

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:37 (nine years ago)

Yeah, had seen an email from !K7 about that. Features collaborations on every track including Roman Flugel, Prins Thomas, Barnt and one each from Hot Chip and Friendly Fires.

Will probably (re)start with Total 16 and see where that sends me.

Mind you, I'm also tempted to make a home made edition of that RSD Superpitcher compilation, too.

― djh, Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:05 (nine years ago)

The Mayer album is very mixed; each track stands up or falls over based on who the collaborator is.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:53 (nine years ago)

Has anyone heard TOTAL 16 yet? It's on Spotify I was listening to it yesterday and there wasn't anything that really caught my attention but there wasn't anything that I found annoying. It sounded pretty good and cohesive to my ears... will need to give it more listens to see what sticks but at first listen it might be one of their better years.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 01:21 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

Loving Clarian's Ankh EP. The title track feels more trance than the music suggests with the Logan's Run sample. Like a cross between Balearic Incarnation and My Name is Barbarella..

― mmmm, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:14 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

https://kompakt.fm/releases/mixtape_vol_1

could this be the first kompakt 'new' album in years that i don't buy?
heard it today a couple of times, and i really am not sure about it.

― mark e, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:05 (eight years ago)

sitting somewhere close to acts like Ween and Junior Boys

does not sound promising

― brimstead, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:09 (eight years ago)

exactly.
also, 12 tracks in 36 mins.
i.e. a lot of throwaway crap.

― mark e, Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:13 (eight years ago)

four months pass...

thankfully I did not read the RA review of the new Gui Boratto album before I heard it.
I ordered it to make an amazon order over the requirements for free delivery.
turns out that the album is crap according to RA.
I beg to differ.
yeah, it's not cool, nor cutting edge.
it is however, a very enjoyable electronica album.
in fact, I have decided to listen to this as a synthwave album.
there are a lot of sonic crossovers in the use of sounds and vocals, which is probably why I am enjoying it so much.

― mark e, Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:28 (seven years ago)

It's perfectly fine. Just like the John Tejada album which RA gave an average review to.

― mmmm, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:20 (seven years ago)

how dare KOMPAKT release an album that sounds like a KOMPAKT album.

( I still have no idea why MS Edge caps lock the word KOMPAKT)

― mark e, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:36 (seven years ago)

Total 18 next week...

― mmmm, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:40 (seven years ago)

"let the countdown begin … "

― mark e, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:44 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

TOTAL 19

i feel old

― j., Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:07 (six years ago)

Visited the Koln record store/headquarters in May. I might have been the youngest person in the store and I'm nearly 40.

― octobeard, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:30 (six years ago)

five years pass...

https://kompakt.bandcamp.com/album/kompakt-500

― nxd, Friday, 18 April 2025 12:15 (one year ago)

"[edit]"

― boxedjoy, Friday, 18 April 2025 13:41 (one year ago)

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