Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

Also, John Dahlback CD on Kompakt proper in January!

"The Road" is rocky schaffel, but so good you totally forget about how tired schaffel is while it's playing. But Fehlmann's schaffel has always been more... consummate than anyone else. He basically got me into the style with "Gratis". What's the rock song he's sampling? It's on the tip of my tongue.

"Powdered" is utterly compulsive Sender techno, moves from glistening ambience to this marvellous crunching groove.

"Dusted" is marvellous dub-house, somewhat reminiscent of "Superbock" - moves from crunchy (again) to drifty almost imperceptibly.

"Pristine" is almost a continuation of the above track but it is simultaneously more urgent and more hazy, as if Tresor was flooded and held a party underwater, before moving to an ambient finish.

Excellent! I always feel like Fehlmann's stuff is underrated a bit.

Pop Ambient 2007 is more Gas-esque than the last couple editions.

Anything else of interest going on with Kompakt?

SuperMayer - The Art Of Letting Go - Kompakt.

Has it been released?

i don't think it has been released - i talked to michael in november and he said nothing of the supermayer project had been completed and nothing would be out until well into 2007. then he refused to tell us any more, apart from going "supermayer saves the world!"

really feeling the new gui boratto album. really not feeling the hug album.

also want and will def get REX THE DOG full-length this year! DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG

March 26

The first track on the Hug album is awesome but yeah the rest hasn't drawn me back.

Also, bit of a self-link, but I did an interview with Michael Mayer over at RA: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature_view.asp?ID=796

Will report back once I've had a chance to listen to it.

Partial Arts - Trauermusik
So gorgeous. Funny to think that we all initially thought that Rex the Dog was Ewan Pearson, and now he and Al Usher are releasing on Kompakt. This is very much in the vein of Pearson's recent Resident Advisor mix - filled with gurgling micro sounds but otherwise it's gooily emotional, all shimmering trebly synth wavers and gently percolating basslines. It would sound perfect on the next Total comp in the "For Penny & Alexis" slot, except that in the second half it becomes crashingly/crushingly anthemic, building and building and becoming harder and harder (the beats actually begin to sound like thunder claps). There's not really a precedent for it: the closest thing i can think of is if you crossed their remix of Feist with Joakim's remix of Antena's "Camino Del Sol".

Jurgen Paape - Take This
Well of course it's an unashamed "Part 2" to "Take That" that same blocky kickdrum and booming bass and farty synth hook beating out a martial groove, only this time it sounds a lot more openly, undeniably thuggish and muscular, like Paape wants kids to lose their brains. This from Paape! Who would have thought it! All I know is that when I saw Mayer spin "Take That" live it sounded like the best thing ever and I bet this would too.

v.v jealous.

and i second stirmonster's emotions. grrr.

is anyone else disappointed in paape's new speicher? maybe i'll come around to it as a kind of headbangingly stoopid, rocker-type pleasure, but on first listens i feel like.... after so much time away, that's it?