Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

also, kind of related since most of his stuff is under the kompakt distro umbrella - BUTANE. man, all of this guys music is sick! i thought his releases on dumbunit and rrygular were ace, but the new one on num is his best yet (tinker toy/your bassline needs some work)

And is there any new, um, news on the SCSI-9 album (last I heard to be called The Line of Nine)?

but...but...it should be an honour to appear on Immer?!?

yes! i just got this, and i love it....esp the herbert double up on "going round"...pity that tune appears to cost £15-20 now :(

"Now Rex the Dog, one of Kompakt's prize minimalistas..."

-Can someone tell me how Rex the Dog's productions can be construed as being minimalist in even the most vague sense of the word? None of his productions would seem to warrant the tag, much less his bigger known singles and remixes (eg. Frequency, prototype, etc.) Has it come to the point where if you make techno and you're from Germany that it *must* be "minimal"?

Ambrose I think you're thinking of the first Michael Mayer mix, which is great yeah. Koeln Kompakt 1 was just a comp of standalone tracks from vaguely related labels (e.g Profan) before Kompakt had released anything.

The Mayer mix was actually much more of a blueprint of what the Kompakt sound would turn out to be.

this
as opposed to
this

i suppose

clueless as ever...

i reckon "other exercises" and "isoplace" are big tunes

the stephan g tune sounds like poker flat stuff!

byron c, stephen g... who the hell are these people!

yeh fackeln im sturm is heavy too

KOM137 THE FIELD - SUN + ICE

FAR FROM ANY SHORT-TERM TRENDS, THE FIELD TELLS US THE STORY OF POP LOOPS. MOST STUNNING CRACKLING SOUNDS EMBEDDED IN SOUND PLANES AND SUPPORTED BY BASS DRUMS.

01 OVER THE ICE
02 ISTEDGADE
03 A PAW IN MY FACE
04 SUN & ICE

I loved their first one. I had kinda hoped this would be two side-long tracks as well, but I'm still very interested.

Also, I love the Superpitcher track on Speicher35 (Enzian): slow, gorgeously, seductively slow, climbing, (only just) lifting off - it's his V-2 Schneider :-)
The Stardiver track's great too, and even slower. Oscillating.

I just got the Kaito album, and after two albums, it is indeed quite air and innocuous (but I'm sure it's supposed to be). I just can't tell if it's consistently good or just consistent. It's easy to ignore, but it's also quite beautiful. What are others thinking about it?

I just got the Kaito album, and after two listenss, it is indeed quite airy and innocuous (but I'm sure it's supposed to be).

I just got the Kaito album, and after two listens, it is indeed quite airy and innocuous (but I'm sure it's supposed to be).

A Michael Mayer set from last week in Barcelona - "Touch" into Alan Parsons "Where do we go from here"! http://www.play.fm/playfm_artists.php?p_id=2383

Gui Boratto is my new favourite producer. "U-Bahn" off his Audiomatique release is absolutely amazing.

Also credit where it's due, I don't normally like John Dahlback but his latest Hug 12 on K2 is ace, the title track is a bit evocative of the music in "Taxi Driver", plus there's a great Smagghe style track on the flip.

Also Ronan you have to hear Geiger's "Night" immediately. It's amazing.

'The Platform' is a good 'un. Dahlback can pull them out of the bag sometimes, 'Snabeln', 'Glass Houses', 'Pop it Bad'...

Anyway, Geiger's "Night" (yeah, I know, not kompakt, but whatevs): first half is this weird muted ambient thing with odd vocals somewhere in the background and a low-end thump, kinda like the first Aphex Twin album maybe? Isolee's

So THAT's how it all works! Hmmm.

Cologne techno label Kompakt will release the next double cd of the Total series “Total 7? on August 21st.
In the scope of this release KOMPAKT will present Total 7 at the c/o pop event in Cologne tomorrow:

c/o pop Festival, Kompakt Total 7, August, 25 2006:

Live: Gui Boratto, Reinhard Voigt, Aguayo & Roccness, The Modernist
DJs: Michael Mayer, DJ Koze, Tobias Thomas, Superpitcher
Adress: Festivalzentrale, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3-11 , Köln/Cologne
Time: 10 pm - open end
Costs: 18 EUR , door 20 EUR or Festivalticket 69 EUR

Track list “Total 7?:

CD 1

01. Kontrast - Grey Skies
02. Triola - Polarzipper (Wighnomy Bros remix)
03. Gui Boratto - Arquipelago
04. Justus Köhncke - Love and Dancing
05. Thomas/Mayer - Sweet Harmony
06. The Modernist - Pearly Spencer
07. SCSI 9 - When She Said Goodbye
08. Superpitcher - Tonite
09. DJ Koze - Getreidephunk
10. Wighnomy Bros - Wombat
11. Mikkel Metal - Ulyt
12. The Rice Twins - For Penny and Alexander

CD 2

01. Gui Boratto - Like You (Supermayer remix)
02. Wassermann - In Tyrannis 2006
03. Robert Babicz - Sonntag
04. Steadycam - Knock-Kneed
05. Jurgen Paape - Take That
06. Hug - The Happy Monster
07. Axel Bartsch - Redlight
08. Reinhard Voigt - Tranceformation
09. Thomas Fehlmann - Saft
10. The Field - Over the Ice
11. Oxia - Domino
12. Jonas Bering - Melanie

Hilarious! Fits in with "Tomorrow," "Yesterday," and "Today."

This has a lot less "hits" then Total 6 (although good to see Wolfgang back again,) but hopefully should pick up the slack in a sorta uneventful year for Kompakt.

Also why has Superpitcher gone out to pasture?

Immer 2 = the new sequel to Loveless.

LOL

Also, Thomas/Mayer - Sweet Harmony, cover of The Beloved? Should fit right in somehow.

Michael Mayer @ Apolo-Nitsa 13.05.06 is excellent set btw.