Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

Has anyone else been catching the awesome Kompakt-u-mentary that KFJC (SF Bay Area & Netcast) has been doing the past week-and-a-half in 3 parts, 11 hours total? It's been fantastic, Goodwrench knows his shit (not surprising, he was spinning techno on the radio when I was still collecting cassettes).

Tonight (may 18) is the third installment at 10pm Pacific time.

Here's my writeup, before the fact. I'm thinking of trying to get the podcasts.
Playlist 1
Playlist 2
Playlist 3 - tonight!

this is funny. i live a few miles away from KFJC, and i can't imagine a more disconnected listening populace for this kind of programming.

You'd be surprised, that little old 110 watts on black mountain reaches everywhere from Richmond to South San Jose, basically an effective population radius of 2 million (sadly, most of SF is not line-of-sight). I played many a graveyard and evening shift on KFJC when I lived there and was constantly amazed at the number of bay area freaks (and I use the term lovingly) who are literally down for whatever - drones, electro, out jazz, dub, punk, psych, LOTS of psych...

sorry, i just moved here (palo alto) around 2 years ago and i can't say i'm crazy about the music scene ... the east bay wasn't great either but this is just DULLSVILLE ...

Every once in a loooooong while there'll be something interesting at the Palo Alto Community Center... saw Negativeland there a few years back. Keep your eyes open for KFJC live performances either at the college or the once-yearly listener appreciation party at a bowling alley. Imagine, Japanese psych bands, hip hop MC's, and an experimental accordion ensemble and a techno DJ set at 3 in the afternoon while you roll a few frames for free. There's no real scene on the peninsula, but lots of creative, intelligent peopel who listen to it obsessively.

kompakt tracks named after girls: closer musik's "maria", mayer's "amanda", jonas bering's "melanie", the rice twins' "for penny and alexis": these are some of favourite tracks ever. is this some kind of secret formula? which am I still missing?

Thomas Brinkmann's Ernst series.

thanks blunt! wasn't actually expecting any response to this - a nice suprise. you heard the ernst series? which is the best?

Ulla, absolutely!

"is this some kind of secret formula? which am I still missing?"

I assume you've already heard Phillipe Cam's "Karine"?

BTW, I'm in total agreement as to the brilliance of all those tracks you mentioned.

i hadn't heard "karine" actually! very pretty - sounds like the durutti column!

and i'm currently listening to the new rice twins b-side, "goatee", which, though not named after a girl (one hopes) is rather wonderful

as jergins mentioned above, i now see

So Speicher CD3 has been announced, tracklisting looks decent.

The new Douglas Greed single on Freude Am Tanzen is called "Girlfriend In A Coma." Apparently, in 20 years, all German minimal artists will have retired from techno and joined Smith/Roxy Music cover bands.

Not that new it came out in Feb :p I bought it off boomkat a while back, incidentally the A Ille und soeren is the absolute shit. B1 is a horrendous piece of electronica tho.

Nothing official on the Total 8 party at C/O Pop yet, but this may give some clues: http://c-o-pop.de/program.609.en.html

Burger/Voigt 10 Jahre nach Burger/Ink die erste LIVE SHOW! (DE)

Total 8:

CD 1
1. BURGER/VOIGT - MAN LEBT NUR ZWEIMAL
2. JÜRGEN PAAPE - WE LOVE (JÜRGEN PAAPE / GESANG: BOY SCHAUFLER)
3. SUPERPITCHER - RAINY NIGHTS IN GEORGIA
4. PARTIAL ARTS - TRAUERMUSIK
5. REX THE DOG - EVERYDAY
6. THOMAS/MAYER - ÜBERWIESEN
7. JÖRG BURGER - POLYFORM 1
8. SUPERMAYER - TWO OF US (GEIGER MIX)
9. STEADYCAM - IN THE MOOG FOR LOVE
10. NIGHTCATS - INSIDE
11. THE RICE TWINS - CAN I SAY

CD 2
1. HERVE AK - THE CLOSER
2. DJ KOZE - MARIPOSA
3. REINHARD VOIGT - FOLLOW THE DJ
4. JÜRGEN PAAPE - NORD
5. ECHO CLUB - FALTER
6. ARIL BRIKHA - BERGHAIN
7. GUI BORATTO - MR. DECAY (ROBERT BABICZ DISCO UNIVERSE MIX)
8. JUSTUS KÖHNCKE - PICKPOCKETS
9. BROKE - COLADANCER
10. SCHAEBEN & VOSS FEAT SCHAD PRIVAT - COLD WIND
11. OXIA - NOT SURE

The first disc is the most um purist any Kompakt Total has sounded. Pretty much every track is glistening chug chug emo tech-house.

Whenever a new kompakt compilation comes out I realise that I am totally imprinted and will never love anything as much as emo tech-house, no other genre can ever quite measure up.

also: 'boy schaufler' ahahahaha ♡.

that boy schaufler sure likes them love songs

justus kohncke set from beats in space this week is now up for download. very disco.

"Rainy Nights in Georgia" sounds surprisingly businesslike at first (kinda splits the difference between normal emo Superpitcher and driving Spiecher Superpitcher) but I have absolutely fallen in love with it. It's his bid for melodramatic Detroit revivalism immortality. Would be devastating on the dancefloor I expect.

That's encouraging Tim. I've been waiting about two years for something from him to get excited about again. From 2005 and earlier I loved or at least really like most everything he touched. Definitely not the case since then, it's seemingly been one disappointment after another. Of course his track on Total 7 wasn't all bad, but I'd love to feel genuinely moved by something he did again.

It feels like Superpitcher's work has become somewhat less 'immediately gripping' over the years. It doesn't get to me as quickly as the earlier stuff (which I only came to know working backwards after hearing Here Comes Love) but I've realised that that doesn't mean I can't get excited about his later/recent tracks - it just takes a little bit longer. For instance, I didn't think much of "Enzian" at first but I kept going back to it and it really turned out to be a sneaky one. The appeal's now more in the details than in the 'immediacy' (can't come up with a better word...) I reckon.

Also: totally looking forward to the Supermayer album. One more month I think?

I think the supermayer album isn't until september. 'two of us' should be out sooner: I keep going to the kompaktbooking myspace to listen to the geiger mix, which makes my brain feel all tingly. Plus it appears to have the greatest cover ever.

Supermayer album details!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=8766

...um!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2007/supermayer_save_the_world.jpg

That's...unusual!

Wow. That sounds (ok, reads) like it could be terrific!
(also I'm sure lots will hate it)

Check out Kompakt's frontpage for the cover of the first 12", "Two of Us"- continues the theme and looks even more ridiculous.

Haha, wtf flying around with the towers of the Cologne Cathedral?!

supermayer save the world is ridiculously awesome. 'the lonesome king' sounds like a fucking techno madrigal.

I want to know what the supermayer 'live show' is going to be!

Heard Total 8 today. Nice but scattershot impact. Might relisten tonight.

'We Love' is completely owning my headphones today. So fantastic.

i guys, i know this is a lame move and should read through all drei teils, but i was at work for 12 hours today and i'm really tired. if i only own IMMER and TODAY and FROM HERE WE GO TO SUBLIME, the other most pressing releases for me to check out are: total III, total VI, and Chromophobia, yes?

Those three are excellent, yes, but also: Immer 2! The DJ Koze and Matias Aguayo albums! Justus Kohncke's Doppelleben! Closer Musik! So much good stuff. Also the Dorau/Kohncke Kompakt Pop 12", which is still the best thing in the history of ever.

Can we talk about how amazing "Uberweisen" is?

Yes, it reminds me a bit of Orbital's "Style", only less, um, cheesy (though i do like the cheese of "Style). Its big happy melody vibe is also a bit Ada-esque. The drum programming is surprisingly frisky! Both for the kind of track it is and for Thomas/Mayer generally.

I have a feeling a lot of stuff on Total 8 might end up being underrated owing to the comp as a whole being a bit samey.

BTW, for Poortheatre, the best of the rest:

1) Friends
2) Total 4
3) Total 2
4) Are You Really Lost?
5) Total 7
6) Smallville

Re Total 8, at the moment i'm totally obsessed with Steadycam's "In The Moog For Love" - that synth arpeggio that comes in at the four minute mark is insane.

Can we talk about how amazing "Uberweisen" is?
point, although it is" über wiesen" (wiesen are meadows).

I simply love the new experiment by Justus Köhncke - Pickpockets - that starts with a link to his masterpiece Elan.

woah! coincidence alert. was just browsing around the mp3s at the wfmu site and came across a tune, "supermayor is watching over you" by andy roberts and the gallivanters. not only did the name give me pause, according to the description (below), there was a comic! weird.

"From 1970 to 1972, the city of Saint Paul, MN was led by colorful Mayor Charlie McCarty who won the election as an independent candidate. He was both loved and hated by many for his unpredictable words and deeds, but never failed to entertain. He earned the nickname "Supermayor" due to his penchant for patrolling the streets of the city at all hours of the night in his hand-picked Lincoln Continental (dubbed the "Supercar") which was decked out all manner of police and fire radios, and the newly modern technology in the song's lyrics that allowed him to switch red lights to green while he tooled around town with his driver. An incident where Mayor McCarty helped apprehend a disorderly patron at a White Castle restaurant was the genesis of an weekly "Supermayor" comic strip by Jerry Fearing in the local paper. Enter Andy Roberts, and friends The Gallivanters. Both were regular performers at Gallivan's restaurant and bar in downtown Saint Paul. Roberts wrote the song about McCarty, and recorded it with The Gallivanters as his backing band." -http://wfmu.org/onthedownload.php/byartist/3

That Partial Arts track is so good, it'd be an amazing mix-opener.