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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)

me. ive heard it and i dont really like it.

i said somewhere else, i much prefer closer musik when they are split apart, than when they do stuff as closer musik

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I have to say that the vocals on the Closer Musik album are somewhat off-putting. They're too upfront I guess? Would sound better vocodered.

Also Jess, excellent review in Pitchfork today!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I second the kudos for the Pitchfork review.

Well done!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

i like the review, with one exception:

surely the "hot love" remix with the singing could not be exceeded by anything for camp!!

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Jess Harvell, historian!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

On first listen, I'm surprised at the simplicity of the rhythms on the Matias album. It does sounds somewhat similiar to the "Lovefood" remix though. The last track has some odd psuedo-rapping on it.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I have to say that the vocals on the Closer Musik album are somewhat off-putting. They're too upfront I guess? Would sound better vocodered.

Why is that, are you talking about sex, too sexy for you? That's What I love about Closer Musik/Matias Aguayo, He's not afraid of returning dance music to bare sexually. Unlike the sometimes sterile Intelligent dance music. Is it sometimes camp, yeah but A lot more fun dancing to.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Jess used "fart" as a verb and an adjective in his review of Total 6.

Discuss.

(A great review [i.e. in style, substance and sustaining interest] -- regardless of the gas, the requisite P'Fork "...Re-Animator lab mistake of Factory-style gothic indie and chugging house" insider reference, and the "Konpakt." First time in a long time I've read a P'Fork review from start to finish. Maybe since the M.A.N.D.Y. review?)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

You don't know me very well, do you?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

i like how upfront the vocals are! it's uncomfortable!

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

xpost
I often find Kompakt records to be slightly too intelligent. I also like to dance and have sex.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

But I am willing to consider the possibility that I am just not ready for Closer Musik's raw, unmediated and upfront sexuality.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

artist: MATIAS AGUAYO
title: ARE YOU REALLY LOST
label: KOMPAKT
release date: OCTOBER 25, 2005

tracklisting:
1/ DE PAPEL, 2/ RADIO TAXI, 3/ DRUMS & FEATHERS, 4/ WELL, 5/ NEW LIFE, 6/ THE GREEN & THE RED, 7/ ARE YOU REALLY LOST, 8/ SO IN LOVE bonus track: DE PAPEL feat. MAX TURNER

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

ALSO:

KOMPAKT vs. AREAL RECORDS FALL TOUR

Superpitcher (DJ)
Ada (Live)
Metope (Live)

Thurs-Oct 13 - Chicago, IL
Fri-Oct 14 - San Francisco, CA
Sat-Oct 15 - Portland, OR
Mon-Oct 17 - Seattle, WA
Wed-Oct 19 - New York, NY
Thurs-Oct 20 - Detroit, MI
Fri-Oct 21 - Montreal, QC
Sat-Oct 22 - Quebec City, QC (w/Akufen)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

ok i was going to come up to montreal for the 21st but it turns out i have to be in nyc for work that weekend, so the 19th it is! rad.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

No LA, but Portland??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

oh wow!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

the matias album is on SSK; just search the ILM room.

― stoleyourbike (stoleyourbike), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

slocki check yr email

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I have to say that the vocals on the Closer Musik album are somewhat off-putting. They're too upfront I guess? Would sound better vocodered.

That is so you can easily get closer! A vocoder would've ruined it for me (same goes for the Aguayo album, which is sounding excellent thus far).

CM were like my Beatles or Associates.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

fair enough, ambrose, maybe i should've clarified my praise and said that all of the three people i've played it for have liked it. i love the contrast between the low-end (dry as dust, rigid) and the melodies and vocals on top (the opposite). it's a typical kompakt trick from that period and in this case i think it's one of their finer pop moments. and the dettinger remix on kompakt 100 is just...oceanic.

i am glad to read about "simplicity of rhythms" on the album. i could listen to that "lovefood" rmx all day.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

well i was being a bit stupid, i dont m,ind it, but its a bit canonical and i feel stupid for not liking it that much. i sort of like it now, cos it reminds me of a particular time in my life, and a place (bcn), but its not the music itself. im listening to clips of the album now and im liking it quite a bit mroe than 1,2,3....

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

>No LA, but Portland??

I want to say the same thing, but Kompakt/Areal realizes that the dancefloor in LA would consist of exactly 12 indie-rocker-but-really-likes-Kompakt guys, and, despite the fact that these guys actually WILL dance, it's too depressing to note that this is because the space will actually be comfortable enough to shake some ass, because there will be plenty of room, because there will be no women nor club-goer types, because LA is a terible city for dancing, because no one wants to mess up their hair or risk looking uncool. So why bother...

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

...but if anyone in the area is road-tripping it to SF in October for this, dear god please TAKE ME WITH YOU!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

just like to add to the chorus of praise for fraximal

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 20 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

xpost. I have to say that while a headliner show might be disappointing, if they hooked up with hipster promoters and did it at one of the hotspots, then people would dance and they'd be getting the word out here (which is important). I've seen a big hipster crowd here dancing to a Peaches DJ set that included lots of micro-house.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

The Justus mix of "I Built This City" is pretty much what you'd expect to sound like, like if the original mix were replaced by the backing to "Lucienne" or "Timecode." It's got all the vocals from the original too.

Also, that Matias/Alex Turner track "De Papal" sounds a lot like "Risingson" by Massive Atttack!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

little surpirsed my friend Erik had not heard the original "How Long" by Ace. Here it is:

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2L2NS5S2UUOOB1FFFZEYEUNIUJ

Triple mash anyone?

I'm bringing some soft 70s records to koln for c-o pop ... guess I'll see some of you around?

http://www.c-o-pop.de/

can't. wait.

― junkshop (dayvidday), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

i wish i could come.....

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so here's my question. I know exactly nothing about the contemporary state of electronic dance music. And I don't dance. But I bought Total 6 (CD version) yesterday, pretty much entirely based on Jess's review (and the pretty colors), and after listening to the first two tracks on Disc 1, I've decided this is pretty much the kind of electronic music I had been hoping all along to discover. Danceable if that's your thing, but also oddly soothing. So should I buy the other five volumes? Should I skip a few? Are there other labels putting out similar material? Do they have compilations? Bear in mind I'm only looking for CDs. I do not have a turntable, nor do I want one.

Thanks in advance.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

dont worry ambrose, the weather is shit and without the outdoor area total 6 will be crazy packed and horrible

xpost you really liked the koze track?? the one with the piggy sounds?

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

hey pdf, there's a world of stuff along these lines, but if the cologne sound is your thing, which it seems to be, you might look into Ada's Blondie (Areal), Burger/Ink's albums on Matador, and on Kompakt, Closer Musik's only album and Matias Aguayo's new one. You may well enjoy Swayzak as well. This is all just off the top of my head....

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Should probably get Friends and Immer as well.

― Ned Ragget In S&M Gear With His Nob Hanging Out Spanking Me, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah it would be awful to see all the people i listen to constantly, all lpaying and djing, and everyone dancing. consider myself lucky!

but yeah, packed is not good. i could imagine it being rammed. do you kompakt could get arena style events in cologne? why not a 1000-2000 capacity kompakt rave?!??!!

pdf - you should buy the superpitcher "today" mix, the herbert "letsallmakemistakes" mix, the daniel bell "return of the button down mind", my best friend "flashback" cd, michael mayer "immer". i think they are all danceable but soothing, or something. the first of those is awesome.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

You might like the DJ Koze - All People Is My Friend mix as well, the one with Langley Schools Project, but it might get too dancey in places.

― Ned Ragget In S&M Gear With His Nob Hanging Out Spanking Me, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

do you kompakt could get arena style events in cologne? why not a 1000-2000 capacity kompakt rave?

the 2004 kompakt party was in a hangar sized concert hall! which is apparently empty at the time of this years c/o pop. something went terribly wrong here

― fe7 (FE7), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Closer Musik and Ada seconded. Others you might enjoy (not all danceable maybe): Aril Brikha, Deeparture; Superpitcher, Here Comes Love and Today; Ellen Allien, Thrills; Elektronische Musik - Interkontinental #4; Total 3; Dominik Eulberg, Flora & Fauna; Michael Mayer, Immer and Fabric 13.
Sami Koivikko occasionally offers a mix of recent stuff that might apply on his site, so does Philip Sherburne.

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

(various xposts)

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

pdf, if you're looking for more label comps, total 3 is also a critical fave. there is also a label which is closely associated with kompakt called traum schallplatten which puts out comps called elektronische musik interkontinental which are worth a listen. you can listen and buy individual tracks or the whole albums at the kompakt mp3 site.

xpost, haha.

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

pdf - michael mayer's fabric 13, total 3, superpitcher's today and albums by closer musik, richard davis and swayzak

― dh, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

pdf-Richard Davis's new album 'Details',The Brokerdealer-'Inital Public Offering',Fairmont-'Paper Stars',Geiger-'Out Of Tune',Lawrence-'The Absence Of Blight',Ada-'Blondie'

All really great albums for home or late night dancing.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

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