Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

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)

Funny how love of Kompakt works.

For example, I would respectfully yet entirely disagree w/get everything by kaito ("if you like it" disclaimer duly noted), whereas I'd buy that fucking freiland "hot love" song in a heartbeat.

hot love is my head now

Same here. The ambient versions of Kaito's 2 albums are merely passable.

xpost

no way!!!

what does people likes about hot love?????????

not trying to start a fight, i seriously must know!!

Better yet, why is Kaito so adored. I love grandiose, sweeping melodic dance music, yet I find him to be just saturated to the gills.

Kaito is some of the best walking-in-a-crowded-city music for me.

Kompakt just appeared on eMusic today. It's not the full catalogue, but right now almost all of it looks great. Any further thoughts on how to separate the wheat from the chaff (if there is any chaff) are appreciated.

Emusic's got a pretty decent selection and Philip Sherburne wrote a great guide. The only thing slightly underwhelming is the Superpitcher album i think. Closer Musik and Dettinger are must-haves.

Just noticed some very interesting upcoming releases on the Kompakt site. Besides the Gas retrospective of course, there's the resurrection of the Profan label! Profan 30 will be Freiland/Klaviermusik by Wolfgang Voigt. Also of interest are the new Burger/Voigt and Matian Aguaya releases (DJ Koze already has a remix at his Myspace btw).

Oh, and Total 9 will be grey :)

FWIW, eMusic isn't getting that Gas retrospective (anytime soon, at least). Still, there's apparently a lot more of the Kompakt catalogue to come.

In a way, it's better that the back catalogue trickes in, instead of arriving in a flood of titles. That way, I'll be able to focus a bit more on each title I download.

funny, i had been underwhelmed by the superpitcher album when it came out, but listening to it now, years later, it made way more sense to me...

Did anybody listen to "Total 9" yet?

It has one of the greatest and weirdest cover versions I heard in a long time.

The Modernist covers "The Dominator" by Human Resource. Great title: "Modernism Starts At Home". And it's an electropop song. With Burger singing the lyrics quite sweetly.

Awesome.

Really loving the pop sensibility of it.

Listening to the first disc at the moment, it seems like Kompakt have recoiled from the pretty detroit techno middle-groundism of Total 8 into full blown pop mode - this is the most poppy run of tracks they've had on any of their comps, I think.

Adore DJ Koze's "Zou Zou". If Daft Punk's "Superheroes" was them trying to imagine what "progressive house" is with only the name to go on, here Koze does the same thing with "tribal house". Effortlessly surpasses all the other German attempts to sound African of the past twelve months.

Tobias is right about "Modernism Begins At Home". It's actually kinda unnerving to hear "in other words sucker there ain't no other... I wanna kiss myself!" crooned in lounge style.

Superpitcher's remix of The Congosound's "Say I'm Your Number One" is his best bittersweet pop stormer in ages. And Supermayer's "Hey Hotties" is like a much better version of "The Art Of Letting Go" - what cheesy worldbeat-house track does it sample? The levity carries over into Superpitcher's "Disko! (You Don't Care)", which samples the vocal from Soul II Soul's "Back To Life" and is unusually silly/light-hearted.

From the tracklisting it appears that the second disc will be the deep and techy set.

new Burger/Voigt 12": disappointing; bland! maybe it needs more spins... first time i haven't loved a record by these two...

And Supermayer's "Hey Hotties" is like a much better version of "The Art Of Letting Go" - what cheesy worldbeat-house track does it sample?
I saw them last month in Amsterdam and wondered whether they'd included another verse or were just goofying - "The Art of Letting Go" segued into "Hey Hotties". Major lolz @ Superpitcher singing those words into the mic :-)) So much fun, as was the whole performance. Don't know about the worldbeat-house track though, didn't hear it then and there.
Only one more week to go for my first Total party!

this is maybe in the realm of shit everybody knows but there's a track up on jazzfunkgreats right now, "Precious Little Diamond" by Fox The Fox, which is the sample source of the "won't you talk to me" bit of M.Mayer's "Amanda".

here's a link even

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/09/23/crystals-on-winds-from-heaven/

has anyone heard that new K2 release that pete herbert (of reverso 68, LSB et al) has had a hand in? i'm intrigued, he's been on a good run of form lately.

this one

For me one of my favorite would be:

MFA - the difference it makes

Both the original and the superpitcher remix are wicked. Such a blissful and complex pentatonic octave synth. Musical Sehnsucht if I ever heard one.

Anyone care to recommend me some more of this? I have an addiction to this 'trancier' side of Kompakt. (not necesarrily kompakt artists, just looking for this kind of sound.)

The Field also does a good job at it, although I find much of his songs too much uneventful and repetitive. When he focus though, he kills it. I imagine he's the sort of artist that sounds better live than on record.

Really liking the side-A of the new Speicher: Richard Bartz

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF326868-01-01-01.mp3

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44675485

I feel like applauding.