― 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
― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 24 June 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I dunno, the distinctions b/w the different sublabels seem increasingly academic... how is "Wombat" a "Speicher" track? Or "Arquipelago" a K2 track?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 25 June 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 25 June 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 25 June 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trace Henry (Trace), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
....
Go here!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
here!
I really like his tracks with Marc Romboy "Phobos" and "Ferdinand".
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link
His website gives that impression... also they're in electrochemie together obv.
Yeah the moogs!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
the original isn't anything special, but the Supermayer remix is a TOTAL FUCKING ANTHEM
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― fez (fez), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― fez (fez), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― fez (fez), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm having which-one-is-which confusion about the field 'under the ice' single - i think the one i absolutely adore is 'istedgade', the massive pop anthemic one with the annoying glitch in it (nb: does anyone know where i might find a copy without the glitch?), but upthyread or elsewhere someone said it was 'sun and ice'.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"what the?! oh."
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― business up front, party entrance at side door (mike h.), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I seem to like most of the K2 stuff more than Kompakt proper right now it would appear. Esp. Hug - The Happy Monster, which even though it's not anything that special at least works for dancing.
Tried saving this by rejiggling the tracklist but I'm struggling to fill just one disc so far. Doesn't feel anywhere near as fresh as 6, and some of the more pop/trance-inclined stuff is just icky.
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Kontrast - Grey Skies To Blue (7:07) (more like blue skies to gray! VERY heavy track to open with, not so much melancholy as just depressing. Feels like it needs a Morrissey guest vocal)2. Triola - Wighnomys Polarzipper Remix (5:35) (heard this before somewhere. great track, doesn't feel below par)3. Robert Babicz - 3 Sonntag (6:44)4. Steadycam - Knock Kneed (7:13)5. Thomas Fehlmann - Saft (4:58)6. Gui Boratto - Like You Supermayer Remix (7:38) (not that sure about this one overall but the retro piano house style percussion breakout is FAB)7. Dj Koze - Getreide Phunk (6:30) (not quite got my head round this one yet)8. Wassermann - In Tyrannis 2006 (4:14) (ehh... it's unique, not sure if that's a good thing)9. Hug - The Happy Monster (6:09) dance!10. Wighnomy Bros - Wombat (6:10) dance!11. Reinhard Voigt - Tranceformation (5:31)
― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link