Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

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

xpost, haha.

All really great albums for home or late night dancing.

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.

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?

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.

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...

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??!

How long has he been around?

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!

Total 6 is so great. Mikkel Metal's gritty track, the wonderfully disco-y Paape track, Köhnke's excellent contributions - it's very diverse.

my girlfriend even loooooves that Voigt track as well

could anyone list the tracks he reviews/picks?

thanks

And speaking of familiarity, "Panic Room" sounds like the Kompakt track Richard Kelly accidentally left off the Donnie Darko soundtrack.

What would be the perfect release on Immer?

Mayer: There are so many forgotten treasures... A perfect couple would be this one: I'm searching for How & Little "Legends" which got released on NuGroove in 1991. They disappeared when NuGroove went out of business. The flipside could be Portable Productions "My Technique", released in the same year on a tiny German label called Toxikk Trakks. Maybe somebody can help me out there?

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FYI- they were rocking Daft Punk at The Gap years ago, ya smart-ass be-otch!