Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

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.

Might as well have a go myself: what's the track around 56:00 - 59:00, the one with the filtered-to-fuck drums and the voice going something like "meditation...manifest".

googling suggests Josh Wink's "Meditation Will Manifest"

Ha, from 1994 on R&S, that's why it was triggering buried memories.

I haven't heard all those mixes, or any of them, but maybe Tobi Neumann might be a good place to start Robin, is more minimal technoey than electro.

James Holden @ Loft Lausanne is excellent.
I also liked Miss Dinky @ Room 106

Mmm, Sven Vath @ Flex looks pretty good.

Didn't like Villalobos @ Voltt

I dunno, the distinctions b/w the different sublabels seem increasingly academic... how is "Wombat" a "Speicher" track? Or "Arquipelago" a K2 track?

Perhaps they've decided to keep the double-cd format for Total from now on and pad it out with tracks from the sub-labels, rather than compile them all separately.

It makes a lot of sense though. Total 6 was kind of the "been away for a while so here's double" release. Total 7 in the same format would arguably need some padding out drawing from a shorter timespan of releases?

I like the consolidation format better anyway, it adds a bit more diversity. I don't think the Pop Ambient series will be going away, even though there was a drought of new productions a couple of years ago.

This brand of epic mutilated machinic groove with lots of twinkle-riff high-end action seems to be the creative-center of minimal/electro/whatever-house at the moment. There's this whole cluster of different artists converging on this idea: people like Boratto, Afrilounge/Chardronnet, Jona, Someone Else, and then also so many of the big names (Booka Shade, Eulberg, Ananda). I guess it makes sense b/c it's sort of like the midpoint b/w Kompakt/Traum on the one hand and Get Physical at the other.

I was listening to a Stephan Bodzin mix the other night and was surprised to find myself in complete thrall. I thought the gothy riffy impulses (almost Black Strobe updated for 2006) would be a bit familiar, but it was all so compulsive. Towards the end of the set he played Booka Shade's "Trespass 06" and it sounded absolutely huge in that setting.