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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)

"Superpitcher-Non Album Tracks", as compiled by Andy K, find it on Slsk, listen for next few years. Easily one of my most treasured playlists on the Ipod.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I just got in Matias Aguayo-Are You Really Lost. Unbelievable! NEW LIFE is one of the best! When is it really coming out?

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

hey ronan - what should i search under for andy k's compilation of superpitcher on slsk (or do i have to find each individ. track)?

― natedey (ndeyoung), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

"superpitcher non album tracks" should do the job.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Hi! I'm here to talk about the Matias Aguayo record! It's great!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Can he have his own thread!

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

fraximal is like really cold trance in places!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

more standing at the back under the air conditioner than bouncing in the heat of the pit

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

If I knew someone was going to give it a title I would've tagged it Stranger in Town or Back in '72 or something.

I recently put it back up for someone, and a couple others got it around the same time, so it must be floating around more than ever.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

dear andy,

i'm your biggest fan. i listened to all the albums that you had on your best-of page last year and agreed with all but three choices. could you please tell me how to get some of the mixes you had on your old doubt beat pages as well as "stranger in town or back in '72 or something"?

sincerely,
nate

ps. is the dj koze album kicking your ass too?

― natedey, Friday, 26 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Dear nate,

Thank you for the kind words. Every now and then -- that is, whenever I'm able to update (okay, every one-three weeks) -- I'll be putting up an old mix. One is currently up now.

Jury's out on Koze as I haven't spent much time with it.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Oiy!

i hadn't noticed that you'd put up the fourth edition. I'll definitely check that out when I get back home. Thanks for the mix and the words...you should really put up links to your writing on allmusic - although I can usually guess what you'll write about, it's nonetheless annoying to try to find yr reviews!

For me, the jury's definitely leaning in Koze's favor...

― natedey, Friday, 26 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Could some kind soul zip Andy's Superpitcher mix and YSI because it doesn't seem to be on SLSK. Cheers.

― Sily Girl, Friday, 26 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

It's not a mix if it's what I'm thinking of, it's just a compilation of most of his early singles and a second of remixes. It'd be a lot more work, but you could just download them release by release.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

K2 is a new Kompakt sublabel, the first release is on the website now:

Steadycam - "Ding"
KOMPAKTS NEW SUBLABEL FOR CLASSIC MINIMAL TECHNO TUNES OFFERS A BROADER PLATFORM FOR INNOVATIVE (NEW) SOUND ARTISTS. STEADYCAM FROM SWEDEN MAKES THE START.

Kompakt's ad in German magazine Intro already mentions the second one: Hug - "The Angry Ghost".

Our trip to the Total 6 party was cut short unfortunatly as one of our party fainted because of the hugely overcrowded room just before Justus was about to start. Last year's large hall was a much better place to have a party this size. Before things started to get too crowded we had a great time though, especially Tobias Thomas' set was very very nice.

So, what happened afterwards? And who is Rex the Dog??!

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

So how is K2 different from the Immer label? Is it new 12 inches done in "classic minimal techno" style? Seems like we are heading into sublabel overkill.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

And Mayer's new (and slightly skanking) remix of Mikkel Metal nicely uses the vocal hook from "Get Up Stand Up."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i hope kompakt don't do an r&s where all the sub labels diluted it to such a point that it imploded.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

the immer release has a kompakt catalog number though...i remember reading the kompakt news which said immer wasn't going to be a sub-label.

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Mikkel Metal's "The Difference It Makes" from Total 6 has just been working me lately- I can't go anywhere near it without my ass shifting into get-down auto-pilot mode. The song starts and just TAKES OVER. Sure, it's minimal, but still way too dangerous to play at the office....

How long has he been around?

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Duh. I mean "Dorant".

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

He's been around making the dub for about 4 or 5 years. Most of his stuff is on Echocord, where he released a CD this year called "Close Selections." Fabulous stuff, although not as lush and propulsive as his Kompakt stuff. He's supposed to have Kompakt full length sooner or later but it keeps getting pushed back.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I stand corrected, Immer is not a new label, the "Immer Null" has a release number of Kompakt 122. Thanks Tricky!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

But on the other hand: the first Speicher was also released on the main Kompakt label (030).

I just found some more info on K2 on http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3874

For everybody who is interested to know what K2 is, here's
some words by Michael Mayer about it:

K2 is a new Kompakt offshoot or better said a "retention pond" for so much great music we get sent by newcomers and established artists likewise. The mothership Kompakt's schedule is absolutely full with the string of albums to come and a few 12"s inbetween. What's missing is enough slots for classic Kompakt-style minimal techno ep's - which is unbearable for us...

There are already 4 releases lined up on K2.

1. Steadycam - Ding - Steadycam is a swedish newcomer. Ding is his first release and I love it! 4 tracks meandering between profan-ish sample-based minimal and kicking state of the art techno. Great discovery - if you ask me...

2. Hug - The angry ghost - Hug also releases as Huggotron and under his real name John Dahlbäck... Some of the best stuff he did so far...

3. Robert Babicz - tba - I played these two tracks on every festival and they are devastatingly good..

4. Gui - tba - another strong newcomer from Brazil!

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

John Dahlbäck on Kompakt!!! He has recorded for Dessous, Brique Rouge, Systematic ... This guy is ace (and versatile). I expect to see here his more 'minimal techno' side on K2.

― nocure, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

Voigt's 'Ready for Take Off', that has to be one of the most badass tracks ever released on Kompakt! I can't even listen to it in the morning, that drillbeat gets me all psycho

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

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