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whoa Immer 2! I never expected such a thing!

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.

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Advance" is just about the most Immery thing he's done, it's very abstracted by Justus's standards, although the track from Total 6 could also have fit.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

"What I'd keep (maybe, will probably delete it all to be ruthless).
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)
"
....
"rice pudding more like... ehhh, it's alright, stick it on the end I suppose, it needs something more uplifting to end on. I feel a bit left behind by it (in the land of not-cheese) personally though. "

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!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

Somfay songtitle needs to be longer.
-- Michael F Gill (planck.lengt...), September 12th, 2006. (Michael F Gill) (link)

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

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - that was a glib quickie first impression really, the whole disc(s) didn't seem very appealing compared to the previous one, perhaps because of the bulk (and lack of pop) but yeah, I was a bit mean about the Rice Twins track. I heard it mixed (might have been Jeffrey Mac's mix) and it worked wonderfully! It just comes over a bit vacant on it's lonesome.

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.

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Immer 2 tracklisting makes sense as a logical continuation of the direction Mayer was going in with the Fabric mix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

It should be titled Immric 7.5

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Advance" is just about the most Immery thing he's done, it's very abstracted by Justus's standards

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

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

So after hearing it, Immer 2 is the best record ever, just as expected.

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

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

approximately when is this out again?

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

immer 2...i dunno. too...not...something.

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

late?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's out on Halloween.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

haha i should point out that was my fumbling description of immer 2, not about the release date.

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.

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

yep and a bit too late.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

not that i've heard it.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like a typical grower to me :)

― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

late to the party love for the new justus over here.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to express a) that 'Grey Skies to Blue' has been on repeat for a day or two now, AND b) Tim, your write-up in pfork on Total 7 was well done.

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kohncke & Leyers have a new track coming out on Firm called "An Ounce of Memories" that is sort of a continuation of "Grey Skies to Blue," but with twisting, almost Robert Owens-esque vocals by old Whirlpool Productions member Eric D. Clark.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

i love melancholitechno! yes!

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

On Immer 2, the combination of SCSI-9's 'Morskaya" and Jesse Somfay's "Lying In a Bed of Mist" is quite astonishing. The lattet track may be the ketamine anthem, what a simply brilliant track.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Kohncke & Leyers have a new track coming out on Firm called "An Ounce of Memories"

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.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Also hardly any of those tracks have appeared on a mix anyway have they. SCSI-9's "Moskaya" was an excellent choice in particular I reckon, in that it sounded very good on The Line of Nine but sounds mindblowing here.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

On Immer 2, the combination of SCSI-9's 'Morskaya" and Jesse Somfay's "Lying In a Bed of Mist" is quite astonishing. The lattet track may be the ketamine anthem, what a simply brilliant track.

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.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

The new Justus dub mix (which is different from the vocal mix) of Zero 7 's "You're My Flame" is great, once of his best remixes in a while, with the endlessly repeated refrain of "I see your reflection / Your reflection is me."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 1 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

surprised no one here has mentioned the very obvious kate bush sample on superpitcher's "tonite"! (unless it has been mentioned someplace else. in which case, disregard.)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Not that they need another one, but Kompakt are starting up a new MP3 label called KOMP3. First release is Andrew Thomas.

Also, John Dahlback CD on Kompakt proper in January!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 21 October 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Still loving Immer 2, fwiw.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 21 October 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Thomas Fehlmann's new 12" is called "Emo Pack"! Except that it's not very Emo. It may be his best single release though.

"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.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

not by me! i love him. i probably could recognize like two of his songs, though.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

i just discovered that thomas fehlmann was a co-producer on the (brilliant) billy mackenzie album which has just been reissued!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

"The Road" samples "On The Road Again" by Canned Heat!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

That's it!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

fehlmann also puts on a great live show. well, it's more like a well-honed dj gig. the set i attended was full of supreme underwater grooves and completely sucked the audience in. undertow.

― josh. (disco stu), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love Fehlmann's stuff 'Radeln' is one of my favourite kompakt tracks... There's a million lovely things going on in it. The emo pack sounds pretty cool too.

― Bn1 (Bn1), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

His track on Total 6 was excellent as well. Not so into the Total 7 one though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone do an edit of Immer 2 where they mix Advance into For Dan (so I can skip Lindstrom). Then it would be perfect. Cheers.

― rchinn (rchinn), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I've changed my mind on the 2nd Klimek album, it's really good.

Pop Ambient 2007 is more Gas-esque than the last couple editions.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

This forthcoming Aril Brikha Wintersongs EP sounds like it could be my favorite Kompakt 12" in ages. The A side in particular is absolutely nothing unexpected, but is still stunningly gorgeous . A perfect piece of techno. Both sides can be heard on his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/arilbrikha

Anything else of interest going on with Kompakt?

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

What is (how can I get a copy of) this track played on Tim Sweeney's beatsinspace back in Oct..

SuperMayer - The Art Of Letting Go - Kompakt.

Has it been released?

― mmmm (myloveispurepower), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

ahhhh supermayer!

i don't think it has been released - i talked to michael in november and he said nothing of the supermayer project had been completed and nothing would be out until well into 2007. then he refused to tell us any more, apart from going "supermayer saves the world!"

really feeling the new gui boratto album. really not feeling the hug album.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I want a Field full-length. This was listed on Kompakt's forthcoming releases on MySpace a while ago if I remember correctly. Can anyone confirm?

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

can't confirm but also want one.

also want and will def get REX THE DOG full-length this year! DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Me too, though the Maximize 12" was pretty disappointing.

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't think so at all! it was the best sort of big stupid banging fun, those awesomely cheesy 90s eurotechno synths and the DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG bit, there needs to be more silliness like that! and 'every day could be your last day' was ace too, like 'i look into mid-air' it shows that rex simply cannot keep away from sounds and melodies which make you grin like a fool even when he's being a bit down.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

I will have to revisit. I do like "Every Day". And I'm still very much looking forward to the full-length.
One thing I did love by Rex last year was his "Marble House" remix for the Knife.

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

And I'm reeaaallly looking forward to this:

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/DominikEulbergCD19.jpg

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone confirm?

March 26

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

!!! Thanks.

― lou (lou), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

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