― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
"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"?
― Trace Henry (Trace), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
thisas opposed to this
i suppose
clueless as ever...
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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 FACE04 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.
― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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?
― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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).
― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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).
― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 21 May 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 27 May 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 27 May 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Also Ronan you have to hear Geiger's "Night" immediately. It's amazing.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
'The Platform' is a good 'un. Dahlback can pull them out of the bag sometimes, 'Snabeln', 'Glass Houses', 'Pop it Bad'...
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 28 May 2006 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
So THAT's how it all works! Hmmm.
― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 May 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 28 May 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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 ModernistDJs: Michael Mayer, DJ Koze, Tobias Thomas, SuperpitcherAdress: Festivalzentrale, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3-11 , Köln/CologneTime: 10 pm - open endCosts: 18 EUR , door 20 EUR or Festivalticket 69 EUR
Track list “Total 7?:
CD 1
01. Kontrast - Grey Skies02. Triola - Polarzipper (Wighnomy Bros remix)03. Gui Boratto - Arquipelago04. Justus Köhncke - Love and Dancing05. Thomas/Mayer - Sweet Harmony06. The Modernist - Pearly Spencer07. SCSI 9 - When She Said Goodbye08. Superpitcher - Tonite09. DJ Koze - Getreidephunk10. Wighnomy Bros - Wombat11. Mikkel Metal - Ulyt12. The Rice Twins - For Penny and Alexander
CD 2
01. Gui Boratto - Like You (Supermayer remix)02. Wassermann - In Tyrannis 200603. Robert Babicz - Sonntag04. Steadycam - Knock-Kneed05. Jurgen Paape - Take That06. Hug - The Happy Monster07. Axel Bartsch - Redlight08. Reinhard Voigt - Tranceformation09. Thomas Fehlmann - Saft10. The Field - Over the Ice11. Oxia - Domino12. Jonas Bering - Melanie
― Hans Veneman (veneman), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Also why has Superpitcher gone out to pasture?
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Immer 2 = the new sequel to Loveless.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Omar (Omar), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Omar (Omar), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Omar (Omar), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
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".
― Omar (Omar), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
googling suggests Josh Wink's "Meditation Will Manifest"
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 23 June 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha, from 1994 on R&S, that's why it was triggering buried memories.
― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 24 June 2006 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― robin (robin), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link