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Vahid hates on Kompakt like a Melrose bop hates on last year's styles.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

once again the idea that kompakt is any more supermarket music than actual house tradition US house is totally ludicrous. get one flight to europe. get one million hairdressing salons playing masters at work and dj deep comps.

(not that I disagree with Spencer either)

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I should expand, it actually hurts me to see Vahid say these things! Isn't this anti-lifestyle brand thing a really ancient dance music hate? It can be used against almost all dance music (or at least most good dance music) and I don't think you are a techno purist Vahid. That's what bugs me, I see the same argument trotted off about Subliminal or ALLHOUSEMUSICEVER or anything with a bloody vocal, and just because in this case it's Kompakt does not change the fact that I think this authenticity stuff is rubbish.

Are people listening to Kompakt records in clubs? Yes. Are DJs buying them? Yes. Are Kompakt DJs selling out venues around the world? Yes.

There isn't any point at which you can invalidate Kompakt's status as a dance label, no matter how many strawmen you erect who supposedly like the label.

You're just criticising Kompakt in exactly the same narrow minded way as a Kompakt fan who attacks a bigroom house label because it's music for pillheads or something. There's no difference between the two positions for me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm beginning to think you weren't really shopping at banana republic today, vahid.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going out on a limb in guessing that a popular argument held by the current bastion of techno purists will claim that the Kompakt machine has steam-rolled over all the classic techno and house that inspired it. This bastion probably finds Kompakt guilty of being historically destructive (as well as unimaginative).

I'm also guessing that this bastion has an average age of about 28, which means that unless they were sneaking into Juan Atkins shows in 3rd grade (at best), their first techno experience came by way of mid-career Moby and The Chemical Brothers (nothing necessarily wrong with this, mind you, but let's be honest about things).....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't think vahid was making a value judgment

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Really? I think it's implied rather clearly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

No, this was discussed before- there is a judgment implied (albeit a bratty one), and I'm baiting him into backing it up (in a teasing, friednly way, mind you)....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

friednly way

fiendly way

fried way

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

This Field single is *amazing* - so *lush*!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

My favorite thing on Kompakt in ages! I wonder if that's because it's somehow different than their usual output?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

6 is so fucking lush and propulsive. I'm gonna pick up the vinyl so I can mix the snob German minimal shit with some old hands-in-the-air progressive trance. It will be GREBT.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

If you say so!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

THUMP THUMP THUMP

"WOOOO!!!!"

THUMP THUMP THUMP (woosh woosh click click)

"hey give me another one i think i'm coming off the peak"

THUMP THUMP THUMP (woosh woosh click click)

Grebt I tell you!

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Stop hating on Kompakt!

Kompakt loves you!

Kompakt is your friend!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 16 September 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Believe me, I LOOOOOOOVE Kompakt. SOOO much. I love you too! Hugz! Woo! I'm gonna play "Mid-Air" again!

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

losoul's getting even is a really slept on album so if it's getting play at banana republic (ha), then good on them.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry to interrupt the e-talking, please continue.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Holy crap, is The Field's "Things Keep Falling Down" single amazing. The b-side, "Thought vs Action," sounds like it samples something (starts about 4:20 in, I think) that I know I should know- I don't know if it's Motown, but it's definitely a soul song and an oldies radio staple- it's the, er, flutey stuff. Does anyone know?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah! Diana Ross, "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," I think. I don't have an mp3 handy to compare, but I'm certain that's it.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

songs right but are you sure that's Diana Ross?

― biz, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, no, come to think of it...I finally remembered the chorus and just slapped it into Google with the word "lyrics," which usually gets the correct result. I forgot that such an old standard is bound to have dozens of different versions, at least...who sang the most famous one?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The Four Tops. You should be embarrassed!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, but I am. Great is my shame.

...on a related note, how on earth did The Field/Kompakt get permission to sample that? Did they even bother?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link

if you feel like you can't go on...!!!and on and on and on and on...!!!
holy shit it's sweet!

might not be a sample. couldn't be too terribly hard to approximate.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, yes it's obviously hard and takes much skill and grace to get things together so they're just right--few can pull it off. but i wondered the same thing and listened and decided it's probably an approximation or whatnot. blah blah blah. go sleep now.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It's nice to think everyone is properly clearing samples, but I doubt it's happening. I mean look at the new Minilogue EP on Traum, it blatantly samples Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 23 September 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

j. burger's new & forthcoming releases:

in october

triola im dubraum -teil 2
inkl. rmxs by bus / olaf dettinger / mikkel metal / the modernist

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Saturday, 24 September 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Have they actually defrosted Dettinger?!

http://www.thegreenhead.com/cool-stuff/images/han_solo_carbonite_3.jpg

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 24 September 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Spencer: not Jurgen Paape - "Cream"?

Honestly, it sounds like the opening loop from a dub of The Tamperer feat. Maya - "Feel It."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Sounds good.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

it does actually, I thought that too. But surely that style is a classic disco meme, "Can You Feel It" etc etc.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link

get one million hairdressing salons playing masters at work and dj deep comps.

hahaha...so true. Is this some sort of EU law?

Anyway...any word on...cough...Immer 2? Or is this an urban myth?

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 2 October 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link

The Orb - Okie Dokie It's The Orb On Kompakt (CD 45), bitches!!

(was running around the house when I put it on the first time, but what i heard was really, really good.)

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

haha that title!

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

okie dokie orb in a pokie!

goofballs.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm boggling here. It's a full-length?

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.theorb.com/images/okiedokie.jpg

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a full-length?

01 Komplikation
02 Lunik
03 Ripples
04 Captain Korma
05 Kan Kan
06 Rolo
07 Beautitude
08 Cool Harbour
09 Traumvogel
10 Because/Before (Sibirische Musik)
11 Tin Kan
12 Kompagna (Zandic mic)
13 Falkenbruck
14 Snowbow

no 'Masterblaster' sadly. Lovely stuff, sort of the idealistic, carefree and dancey side of The Orb, no more desiccated bad-trip dub. The ambient stuff at the end reminds me of Gas or Markus Guenter.

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"cool harbour" is such a lovely track.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

it always reminds of that gentle sea spritz when yr at the beach.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

unnnh

unnhnh yeah

oh FUCK yeah, oh SHIT, oh.....!!!!1

pantpantpant

ahhhh .... cigarette?

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

IT'S JUST A TECHNO RECORD F'R CHRISTSAKES!!!!

(sorry, I always wanted to do that ;)

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, no one cared on the Villalobos thread, but if anyone hasn't seen this. For anyone who wants an startlingly good minimal / electro house (heavy doses of eulberg / wruhme / joakim style stuff), the latest Families mix is by John Tejada, and available here:

http://82.66.50.71/audiofamilies/ficheDL.php?reference=7

Tracklist:

00:00 [a]pendics.shuffle - saw saw soup (robag wruhme mix) - www.orac.vu
03:19 dog vs. dog - keep us away - www.lebensfreuderecords.de
06:34 nathan fake - dinamo (dominik eulberg remix) - www.traumschallplatten.de
10:19 extrawelt - soopertrack - www.bordercommunity.com
12:58 ziggy kinder - viel bass & wenig hund - www.ware-net.de
17:40 frankie - storm - www.frankie-rec.com
20:13 phonique - weapon - www.dessous-recordings.com
23:15 john tejada - voyager - www.paletterecordings.com
29:13 traffic signs - infiltrate - traffic signs
33:02 dj t. - a guy called jack (joakim remix) - www.physical-music.com
35:11 stop disco mafia - bodies (krikor's sweat pony remix) - www.proptronix.com
37:51 dan curtin - conduit - www.tuningspork.com
41:17 mathias kaden - circle pit - www.vakant.net
42:49 dominik eulberg - die invasion der taschenkrebse (justin maxwell remix) - www.traumschallplatten.de
48:10 fark - steffi - www.contexterrior.com
50:11 daniel bell - superminimal - www.logisticrecords.com
53:07 s-max - buddhanath mindful dub - www.telegraph-records.com
55:39 john tejada - mono on mono - www.paletterecordings.com

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

No Omar, you're right. I just got overexcited about the idea of a good new Orb album after ... um ... a long dry stretch. I'm sorry I splooged all over the thread.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Lukas, just in case, it was a play on iforgotwho on the other Kompakt or Immer thread. A good new Orb album, (after what? 13 years? although the last one was pretty decent in places) is reason for excitement! I'll have that cigarette now.

― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Upcoming releases on Kompakt...

NOVEMBER

7.11.2005 K2_03 / 12” – ROBERT BABICZ – MISTER HEAD
4.11.2005 KOM CD 47 / LP130 – POP AMBIENT 2006 – VARIOUS ARTISTS
21.11.2005 KOM 129 – SCSI 9 – ON THE EDGE tbc.
SPEICHER 32 / 12” – DAHLBÄCK / BARTSCH

DECEMBER

05.12.2005 K2_05 / 12” – TBA
12.12.2005 KOM 131 / 12” KONTRAST (JUSTUS KÖHNCKE&DIRK LEYERS) – STAMMTISCH DER VERZWEIFLUNG

JANUARY 2006

16.01.2006 KOM CD 46 – MICHAEL MAYER – IMMER 2 MIX CD

I'm looking forward to the Köhncke/leyers collaboration and Immer 2!!

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Sunday, 13 November 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link

another one:

09.01.2006 KOM CD 132 JONAS BERING – BEHIND THIS SILENCE

― Hans Veneman (veneman), Sunday, 13 November 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Immer 2!!!!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess the rumors were true!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 13 November 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

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