Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

This is what I hear. I've listened a few times to the ???? but I can't make anything of it. Something about twelve men??? I'm hoping ze Germans can help us out....

Was ist die Zeit
Was ist die Zeit
????
Die Zeit ist einfach da

Wofür?

Um spazieren zu gehen
Um Essen zu machen
Zu arbeiten
Um Fernseh zu gucken
Um Auto zu fahren
Um U-Bahn zu fahren
Um Spaß zu haben

Das ist es ja

Und manchmal hat mann mehr Zeit
Und manchmal nicht
Manchmal hat man weniger Zeit

Die Stars, die brauchen auch Zeit fur etwas
Die brauchen auch Zeit
????
Ohne die Zeit ist es ja auch langweilig, nah?

which roughly translates into:

What is time?
What is time?
????
Time is just there

What for?

To go for a walk
To cook food
To work
To watch television
To drive a car
To ride the Underground
To have fun

That’s it

And sometimes you have more time
And sometimes not
Sometimes you have less time

The stars, they also need time for something
They also need time
????
Without time it would be boring, right?

I absolutely love the (mood of the) first ten minutes of pleasepleaseplease.

it figures that the lyrics are about time! thanks for translation!

yeah i think that the whole mix is really well done. OTTOMH it has five separate sections that really cohere which is not easy to do in 70-80 minutes. and besides from the technical stuff to nerd out on, it is just nice to listen to. the covers at the end were off-putting to me way back when it came out, but they've grown on me as well. now that i know the what that spoken word bit is, the beginning will sounds a little different, too.

ugh. that last sentence should be,

now that i know what that spoken word bit is, the beginning will sound a little different, too.

Kompakt to finally release something a (mix) cd by a female this year. Did not expect it would be Cardini though...

I to be seem dyslexic

found @ fact magazine today

"Kompakt have announced the issue of a lavish boxset compiling Wolfgang Voigt's three classic Gas LPs, Gas, Zauberberg, Konigsforst and Pop, bona fide sacred texts of ambient and minimal techno. The 4xCD/2xLP set is due for release in May; shortly after, Raster-Noton will publish a book, Gas: Loops, presenting "the visual side of gas"."

also, the jennifer cardini mix is the best mix cd i've heard this year. woooooooooooooooo!!!!

I just saw that Wolfgang Voigt is on the cover of the next Wire!

wire must have decided dance is in, they've had Ricardo Villalobos and Luomo on their cover pretty recently.

UR as well. This is kind of strange, no? Ricardo, being the first of those was regarded as fairly uncommon, 4 in the span of like half a year is certainly something.

Yes but much anticipated. Maybe their jumping on Minimal like they jumped on PostRock

is it really so strange?

more importantly how do you fit all gas albums on 2xlp???

From the description on Pitchfork, it sounds like the 4 albums are only being reissued on CD and the 2 LPs are non-album material (perhaps the Oktember and Modern 12"s listed on Discogs?). I could definitely be wrong though.

Konigsforst's first two tracks are the Oktember 12", I think.

Those Gas lps are the best thing Kompakt has ever put out. The rest has degenerated into post-progressive-trance mush. I guess it's good mush, for what its worth.

I'm pretty sure I've already seen that Gas:Loops book/CD for sale already. Maybe on Forced Exposure list?

I don't think it's available from F.E. yet. I order from them every other week for the store where I work and I certainly would have jumped on that the minute I saw it.

OK, maybe I was just remembering the promo copy.

So are the 4CD and 2LP available separately?

Wow, these Kompakt -- S/D threads are long! Kompakt was just signed up by eMusic, and should be going live there sometime soon. So, assuming the entire back catalogue is made available, what 10 Kompakt discs are the cream of the crop? I've already got From Here We Go Sublime, which I guess might be in the Top 10.

3 of them are pop ambient 2001-2003

but you should really just go for single tracks if you can; i don't know how emusic works

you need this, too:

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6712/triolatriolaimfunftonraym6.jpg

Winston: eMusic lets me download by the track, if I'd like. I'm partial to full discs (I like filler! as someone here once said), but if Kompakt is better experienced via single songs, I can do that, too. Also, are you saying that the Pop Ambients that came after 2003 aren't as good as the 2001 -- 2003 editions?

Nerve: I couldn't find that disc on the Kompakt web site. Is the artist's name Triola?

yep, artist is Triola. actually, it's Jorg Burger, under one of his many aliases. see also the equally essential--but not on Kompakt--Burger/Ink Las Vegas lp. and while you're at it, get their latest 12" Bring Trance Back.

Daniel, Esq.- These are some favorites of mine.

Full-lengths, Mixes and Comps:

Dettinger- Intershop
Closer Musik- After Love
Kaito- Special Life
Triple R- Friends
Michael Mayer- Immer
Ulf Lohmann- Because Before
Total 3 and 4
Pop Ambient 2001 and 2007

12"s and individual tracks:

DJ Koze- "Brutalga Square"
SCSI-9- Mini
The Field- Things Keep Falling Down
Jurgen Paape- "So Weit Wie Noch Nie", "Nord"
Superpitcher- "Mushroom", "Heroin"
Mayer/Aguayo- "Slow"
Phong Sui- "Wintermute (Burger/Voigt Mix)"
MFA- "The Difference it Makes (Superpitcher remix)"
Rice Twins- "Rome", "Can I Say" (these are on the K2 label)

Not sure if the Speicher 12"s are available from eMusic but these are some of the best if so:

Rice Twins- "For Penny and Alexis"
Magnet- "Kisskisskiss"
Joachim Spieth- "Use Case"
Gui Boratto- "Matroyshka"
Maxime Dangles- "Noemie"
Mathew Jonson & The Mole- "Dirt Road and a Boat from Soundwave"
Michael Mayer- "X", "Love is Stronger Than Pride"
Jurgen Paape- "Fruity Loops #2"

lou picked some great stuff. as for the pop ambient comps, 2007's really was incredible, better than the 3 or 4 others i've heard from that series.

Closer Musik- After Love

I wish I could get all the way through this, but then some of those lyrics come in and it's like, lol how "sexy"! Oooh, talk dirty to me in your second language! Rawr.

it works on the dancefloor kenan

Revive from a couple years ago the praise for Ferenc - Fraximal. More recently, still digging on Thomas Fehlmann - Honigpumpe, Immer 2, The new Justus, Speicher CD3, and (obviously?) Total 8.

Triple R- Friends

Big up. Fantastic. A very favorite.

I like the new Justus more and more each time I listen.

I see on Kompakt's website that their next artist album is Pluxus- Solid State. Apparently this came out in 2006 on a different label. Has anyone heard it?

Justus album is great. Solid but not boring solid. That "Feuerland" cover is awesome. Got kudos from Rother himself, too, in this month's Wire Jukebox feature. Not that it needs approval but still, it's nice to get it I guess.

Speicher CD3 is very nice, quite different than nos. 1 and 2. Def. less 'banging'. I keep forgetting to check out Honigpumpe...

Honigpumpe = late-nite haxoring music

Daniel, Esq. (AKA, my fellow attorney)

My Top 10 Kompakt Full-Lengths (Mixes and/or Artist Albums):
01. Triple R Friends -mix
02. Superpitcher Today -mix
03. Markus Guentner 1981
04. Michael Mayer Immer -mix
05. Thomas Fehlmann Visions Of Blah
06. Ferenc Fraximal
07. Mikkel Metal Victimizer
08. Gui Boratto Chromophobia
09. Michael Mayer Immer 2 -mix
10. DJ Koze Kosi Comes Around

Excellent! Thank you (everyone), and please suggest more. From what I've seen just since my post -- and assuming the entire Kompakt back catalogue is made available on eMusic (and we won't know that until the label goes live) -- it will be almost impossible to limit myself to just an "introductory Top 10."

what one has Justus Kohncke and meloboy covering T-rex? I like that one.

Freiland- Frei/Hot Love (Justus Kohncke remix)

on Kompakt 100

I love it

That song is kind of "gay".

kompakt is pretty gay

kind of??!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHu9QryT0Xw
justus responds to 'gay!' comment :-)

Kompakt is probably more asexual than gay. Hence, the crossover.

daniel, the other pop ambients are pretty good but 2001-2003 are 5 star 10/10 material

DO NOT buy that fucking freiland "hot love" song, you will so regret it

it's bad. REALLY bad

i assume you can preview tracks? get everything by kaito

if you like it

total 1, 2, 3 (no gravity)