Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

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Repeating myself from upthread, but yes, this included everything I wanted except for Mayer and Voigt's Transparenza. It's a great collection, and even though it seemed like a quiet year for Kompakt, this would indicate that it was a quietly strong year.

matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

What good stuff was left off?

Gui Boratto - Sozinho
Stardiver - Borderline
Mayer/Voigt - Tranceperanza
something from the Kontrast single
Steadycam - Dull In Minor
Hug - The Platform

I guess some of the other K2 singles I haven't heard? I can understand why they didn't include multiple Boratto/Steadycam/Hug/Kontrast tracks.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm guessing the cut off date for Total 7 was probably May, so some of those might end up on the next Total.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, like erm the year and a half old Polar Zipper mix being on this one...

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

What good stuff was left off?

DJ Koze - "Estrella"
The Orb - "Kan Kan"
John Dahlbäck - "Gas"
Mikkel Metal - "Rain"
Mufo - "C.L.A.U.D.I.A."
Bastien Grine - "Where R U?"
The Orb - "God Less America/Gorgeous"
Gui Boratto - "Sozinho"
Michael Mayer/Reinhard Voigt - "Transparenza"
Giorgos Gatzigristos - "Sloensje"

JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

the new justus totally rules!! i'm really loving it. but you knew i would say this.

geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I am so anxiously awaiting the next sample-delic Justus tune. Who can not be happy listening to his ridiculous version of the Golden Girls theme!?

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

that new Justus is the first decent tune on Kompakt proper for what seems like aeons

Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link

^otm

ferzaffe (flezaffe), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean the Justus track on Total 7 or the current single, which I wasn't really feeling?

JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i was talking about the current single, "Advance." though the track on Total 7 is good too.

geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, the new justus single is immense!! i prefer "advance", but both cuts are pretty flawless. when the hook in "overhead" materializes it must cause total madness. it's weird how an almost inconsequential part of "advance", the snare, brings it all together (there's also that amazing break). 2006 has seen a lot of the snare supplanting the kick in minimal techno though. 2006 also has been the year of these tracks with almost interminable builds, short peaks and then even shorter codas. it's like tracks-not-tracks where tracks have become less about heavy mixing and blending, but they're still not exactly songs.

breakfast pants (disco stu), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

That last Soulphiction aside was all about the killer snare drum sound.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 24 August 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"also has been the year of these tracks with almost interminable builds, short peaks and then even shorter codas. it's like tracks-not-tracks where tracks have become less about heavy mixing and blending, but they're still not exactly songs."

Ha ha this is so OTM it kills me. Or maybe it's the shortness of those peaks that kills me.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah tons of these tracks, tho rest assured it will be cheesed up soon.

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i love love love 'pearly spencer' by the modernist on total7 - is this based on/a cover of some famous 80s/90s hit like 'sweet harmony' or is my brain just making it up? the title and the tune ring a bell.

Or maybe it's the shortness of those peaks that kills me.

YES - i blame trentemoller!

The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

pearly spencer is glued to the inside of my brain. it pops up in my head randomly throughout the day - love it.

willem -- (willem), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

there is some weird & awesome stuff going with the downbeat in "overhead." an edit that extends the hook is very necessary

W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 26 August 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i love love love 'pearly spencer' by the modernist on total7 - is this based on/a cover of some famous 80s/90s hit like 'sweet harmony' or is my brain just making it up? the title and the tune ring a bell.

http://www.re-played.com/images/tn_Almond_Marc_-_The_days_of_Pearly_Spencer_cdm.jpg

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 26 August 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking that "Overhead" is like this essay piece demonstrating the relative nature of titillation - it's fucking cruel the way Justus refuses to just let the hook play out at any stage, it's either cut to pieces or EQ'd to death.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

From Pitchfork (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/38482):

Immer 2:

01 Someone Else - "Ploosh"
02 Ian Simmonds - "The Dog"
03 Brooks - "Tell Somebody About the Beat"
04 Trevor aka Pascal Schäfer - "Strange Worlds"
05 Crowdpleaser - "18 Years"
06 Justus Köhncke - "Advance"
07 Lindstrøm - "Another Platform (Todd Terje Remix)"
08 The Rice Twins - "For Dan"
09 SCSI-9 - "Morskaya"
10 Jesse Somfay - "Lying in a Bed of Mist"
11 DK7 - "Where's the Fun (Sten Remix)"
12 Geiger - "Good Evening (Supermayer Remix)"

Bonus mp3s:

01 James Din A4 - "Intro"
02 AM/PM - "No Matter Whether"
03 Mikkel Metal - "Lukon (Michael Mayer Remix)"
04 Adolf Noise - "Der Grundton (Michael Mayer Remix)"
05 Ada - "Maps (Thomas/Mayer Remix)"
06 Dorau/Köhncke - "Abermorgen"
07 Terre Thaemlitz & Funk Shui - "Superbonus"

Kaliova (Kaliova), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

06 Justus Köhncke - "Advance"
07 Lindstrøm - "Another Platform (Todd Terje Remix)"

a mini-homage to Christian Bruhn?

Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Somfay songtitle needs to be longer.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

new rice twins!

jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

the bonus mp3s look intriguing

jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

the bonus mp3s look intriguing

And how. Hopefully they'll just be extra content on the disc instead of a code for use on kompakt-mp3 or something. Also, if anyone else is curious, the cover art is (finally) up on Kompakt's frontpage (same as Immer only blue instead of red).

Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa Immer 2! I never expected such a thing!

I'm not completely familiar with Justus Köhncke's oeuvre, but he's never seemed particularly Immery to me. Hmm.

"Superbonus" is such a great title.

aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"Advance" is just about the most Immery thing he's done, it's very abstracted by Justus's standards, although the track from Total 6 could also have fit.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"What I'd keep (maybe, will probably delete it all to be ruthless).
1. Kontrast - Grey Skies To Blue (7:07) (more like blue skies to gray! VERY heavy track to open with, not so much melancholy as just depressing. Feels like it needs a Morrissey guest vocal)
2. Triola - Wighnomys Polarzipper Remix (5:35) (heard this before somewhere. great track, doesn't feel below par)
3. Robert Babicz - 3 Sonntag (6:44)
4. Steadycam - Knock Kneed (7:13)
5. Thomas Fehlmann - Saft (4:58)
6. Gui Boratto - Like You Supermayer Remix (7:38) (not that sure about this one overall but the retro piano house style percussion breakout is FAB)
7. Dj Koze - Getreide Phunk (6:30) (not quite got my head round this one yet)
8. Wassermann - In Tyrannis 2006 (4:14) (ehh... it's unique, not sure if that's a good thing)
9. Hug - The Happy Monster (6:09) dance!
10. Wighnomy Bros - Wombat (6:10) dance!
11. Reinhard Voigt - Tranceformation (5:31)
"
....
"rice pudding more like... ehhh, it's alright, stick it on the end I suppose, it needs something more uplifting to end on. I feel a bit left behind by it (in the land of not-cheese) personally though. "

Fandango having lived with Total 7 for a while now, I feel like i've come to the exact opposite conclusions to you. I think I love Kompakt best when they're being unashamedly cheesy - the Rice Twins, SCSI-9 and Jonas Bering tracks are all among my favourites!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Somfay songtitle needs to be longer.
-- Michael F Gill (planck.lengt...), September 12th, 2006. (Michael F Gill) (link)

This all sounds very good. And that ^ ^ made me laugh hard.

trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - that was a glib quickie first impression really, the whole disc(s) didn't seem very appealing compared to the previous one, perhaps because of the bulk (and lack of pop) but yeah, I was a bit mean about the Rice Twins track. I heard it mixed (might have been Jeffrey Mac's mix) and it worked wonderfully! It just comes over a bit vacant on it's lonesome.

Incidentally there's a Total 7 mix up here - http://www.thinktoy.com/thinkmix.htm which I haven't heard (yet) but thought worth passing on.

Immer 2 looks pretty different! Brooks on there is a bit of a surprise.

boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The Immer 2 tracklisting makes sense as a logical continuation of the direction Mayer was going in with the Fabric mix.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It should be titled Immric 7.5

Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"Advance" is just about the most Immery thing he's done, it's very abstracted by Justus's standards

I can't be the only one who hears a cyborg Jeff Porcaro (Boz Scaggs' "Lowdown") in there.

Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

So after hearing it, Immer 2 is the best record ever, just as expected.

I guess this justifies the Press Kit/Bio for it being 58 pages long.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

approximately when is this out again?

boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

immer 2...i dunno. too...not...something.

katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

late?

jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

It's out on Halloween.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i should point out that was my fumbling description of immer 2, not about the release date.

it's very...well there are almost no vocals. there's not much "drama," certainly not in the goth way of the first one or the almost-pop sense of fabric13, though 4 years might as well be 40 when it comes to dance music, so i dont hold its differences from those two mixes against it. structurally and technically, it's very much in line with them. it takes mayer's love of the loooong, slooow fade between two tracks that he's almost played in full to its extreme. so if you don't like his mixing style, you're not going to like this. (in the first third or so, this is actually pretty thrilling. matos described it as "the way it reaches land" from the chain reaction-y rustle of the opening track.) kinda loses me in the middle somewhat when it gets a little more electro-disco/au courant. picks up considerably towards the end but i think i might hate the vocals on the dk7 track. it's a very good, smooth, kinda ambientish techno mix. but nothing mindblowing.

katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yep and a bit too late.

jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

not that i've heard it.

jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

sounds like a typical grower to me :)

ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

late to the party love for the new justus over here.

genital hyphys (haitch), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I would like to express a) that 'Grey Skies to Blue' has been on repeat for a day or two now, AND b) Tim, your write-up in pfork on Total 7 was well done.

trees (treesessplode), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Kohncke & Leyers have a new track coming out on Firm called "An Ounce of Memories" that is sort of a continuation of "Grey Skies to Blue," but with twisting, almost Robert Owens-esque vocals by old Whirlpool Productions member Eric D. Clark.

Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i love melancholitechno! yes!

trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

On Immer 2, the combination of SCSI-9's 'Morskaya" and Jesse Somfay's "Lying In a Bed of Mist" is quite astonishing. The lattet track may be the ketamine anthem, what a simply brilliant track.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Kohncke & Leyers have a new track coming out on Firm called "An Ounce of Memories"

And it's sounding a whole lot like my favorite single of the year right now.

As to whether or not Immer 2 is timely or not, or loses points for not containing all-late-2006 tracks: When up-to-date DJ sets are available to anyone who can do a little bit of digging and download, more DJs who release commercial mixes ought to be concerned with lasting playability over being on (or ahead of) time.

That said, I doubt I'll play Immer 2 as often as Immer 1 or the Fabric mix.

Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Also hardly any of those tracks have appeared on a mix anyway have they. SCSI-9's "Moskaya" was an excellent choice in particular I reckon, in that it sounded very good on The Line of Nine but sounds mindblowing here.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link


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