Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

Ha ha this is so OTM it kills me. Or maybe it's the shortness of those peaks that kills me.

Or maybe it's the shortness of those peaks that kills me.

YES - i blame trentemoller!

http://www.re-played.com/images/tn_Almond_Marc_-_The_days_of_Pearly_Spencer_cdm.jpg

Immer 2:

01 Someone Else - "Ploosh"
02 Ian Simmonds - "The Dog"
03 Brooks - "Tell Somebody About the Beat"
04 Trevor aka Pascal Schäfer - "Strange Worlds"
05 Crowdpleaser - "18 Years"
06 Justus Köhncke - "Advance"
07 Lindstrøm - "Another Platform (Todd Terje Remix)"
08 The Rice Twins - "For Dan"
09 SCSI-9 - "Morskaya"
10 Jesse Somfay - "Lying in a Bed of Mist"
11 DK7 - "Where's the Fun (Sten Remix)"
12 Geiger - "Good Evening (Supermayer Remix)"

Bonus mp3s:

01 James Din A4 - "Intro"
02 AM/PM - "No Matter Whether"
03 Mikkel Metal - "Lukon (Michael Mayer Remix)"
04 Adolf Noise - "Der Grundton (Michael Mayer Remix)"
05 Ada - "Maps (Thomas/Mayer Remix)"
06 Dorau/Köhncke - "Abermorgen"
07 Terre Thaemlitz & Funk Shui - "Superbonus"

a mini-homage to Christian Bruhn?

And how. Hopefully they'll just be extra content on the disc instead of a code for use on kompakt-mp3 or something. Also, if anyone else is curious, the cover art is (finally) up on Kompakt's frontpage (same as Immer only blue instead of red).

I'm not completely familiar with Justus Köhncke's oeuvre, but he's never seemed particularly Immery to me. Hmm.

"Superbonus" is such a great title.

Fandango having lived with Total 7 for a while now, I feel like i've come to the exact opposite conclusions to you. I think I love Kompakt best when they're being unashamedly cheesy - the Rice Twins, SCSI-9 and Jonas Bering tracks are all among my favourites!

This all sounds very good. And that ^ ^ made me laugh hard.

Incidentally there's a Total 7 mix up here - http://www.thinktoy.com/thinkmix.htm which I haven't heard (yet) but thought worth passing on.

Immer 2 looks pretty different! Brooks on there is a bit of a surprise.

I can't be the only one who hears a cyborg Jeff Porcaro (Boz Scaggs' "Lowdown") in there.

I guess this justifies the Press Kit/Bio for it being 58 pages long.

it's very...well there are almost no vocals. there's not much "drama," certainly not in the goth way of the first one or the almost-pop sense of fabric13, though 4 years might as well be 40 when it comes to dance music, so i dont hold its differences from those two mixes against it. structurally and technically, it's very much in line with them. it takes mayer's love of the loooong, slooow fade between two tracks that he's almost played in full to its extreme. so if you don't like his mixing style, you're not going to like this. (in the first third or so, this is actually pretty thrilling. matos described it as "the way it reaches land" from the chain reaction-y rustle of the opening track.) kinda loses me in the middle somewhat when it gets a little more electro-disco/au courant. picks up considerably towards the end but i think i might hate the vocals on the dk7 track. it's a very good, smooth, kinda ambientish techno mix. but nothing mindblowing.

And it's sounding a whole lot like my favorite single of the year right now.

As to whether or not Immer 2 is timely or not, or loses points for not containing all-late-2006 tracks: When up-to-date DJ sets are available to anyone who can do a little bit of digging and download, more DJs who release commercial mixes ought to be concerned with lasting playability over being on (or ahead of) time.

That said, I doubt I'll play Immer 2 as often as Immer 1 or the Fabric mix.

otm. i love love love the mixing on immer 2, too; he really does these slow fades like no-one else. that said, after a couple of listens i don't think it's up with fabric 13. also, i guess the copy i "acquired" comes via the kompakt press site - do they always put stuff up at 128kbps? ugh.

Also, John Dahlback CD on Kompakt proper in January!

"The Road" is rocky schaffel, but so good you totally forget about how tired schaffel is while it's playing. But Fehlmann's schaffel has always been more... consummate than anyone else. He basically got me into the style with "Gratis". What's the rock song he's sampling? It's on the tip of my tongue.

"Powdered" is utterly compulsive Sender techno, moves from glistening ambience to this marvellous crunching groove.

"Dusted" is marvellous dub-house, somewhat reminiscent of "Superbock" - moves from crunchy (again) to drifty almost imperceptibly.

"Pristine" is almost a continuation of the above track but it is simultaneously more urgent and more hazy, as if Tresor was flooded and held a party underwater, before moving to an ambient finish.

Excellent! I always feel like Fehlmann's stuff is underrated a bit.