Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

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.

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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.

I can't actually work out whether her delivery is very Neil Tennant indeed or if he's actually singing on the track. I quite like that.

Disappointed this thread doesn't contain dozens of posts about the greatness of Jurgen Paape's Come Into My Life, incidentally.

That track's awesome. I put it on a mixtape me and my friend played when we drove to Cologne for the Total 9 party. When we were waiting to get in, Wolfgang V. arrived on his bike in a black sleeveless shirt and matching pants. I knew then the night couldn't possibly go wrong.
(that's 2 posts on the song, only 10 more to go)

ferenc "zambomba"!

first stuff in a while that's really done it for me. riding out that distorted piano chord for all it's worth. and that twitchy bass comes in and jerks you around. classic classic.

Also, I listened to Trauermusik again a few days ago and have been listening to it over and over. Goodness gracious this song is enormous (and beautiful), I could listen to this all day. Awe inspiring.

Disovered this the other month. Wish it would get a repress:

http://www.discogs.com/release/12457

Passions cover = Dubstar (the group)

kompakt-mp3 is dead, long live kompakt.fm?

http://kompakt.fm/blog/sBcFQjyaaK6J

GusGus will release "24/7" on Kompakt this summer

Let's make it official: we're more than happy to announce that KOMPAKT has signed GusGus for the release of the upcoming album "24/7" in July 2009.

The band has been working hard and as a result put together a supreme, state-of-the-art techno album. And, as you all know, friends need to see each other from time to time. That is why we have decided to invite GusGus to play the tenth edition of our annual parties on August, 14 here in Cologne, TOTAL 10!

GusGus "24/7" will be released on July 9th on KOMPAKT.

More info soon on KOMPAKT.fm - stay tuned!

ferenc "zambomba"!

first stuff in a while that's really done it for me. riding out that distorted piano chord for all it's worth. and that twitchy bass comes in and jerks you around. classic classic.

fucken ay, was a bit late on this one but it's sensational.

Please, please please does anyone still have a mp3 of the JD Twitch remix of Justus' Timecode with the Lipps Inc vocal???

This is a disco emergency.

(as referred to a long time ago on this thread: Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei)

Dettinger returns on Pop Ambient 2010!

has there been another thread or has interest dropped off this much ... ?

@Tannenbaum Schmidt I have that mp3 if you still need it. Hit me up on AIM.