Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Drei

Has anyone else been catching the awesome Kompakt-u-mentary that KFJC (SF Bay Area & Netcast) has been doing the past week-and-a-half in 3 parts, 11 hours total? It's been fantastic, Goodwrench knows his shit (not surprising, he was spinning techno on the radio when I was still collecting cassettes).

Tonight (may 18) is the third installment at 10pm Pacific time.

Here's my writeup, before the fact. I'm thinking of trying to get the podcasts.
Playlist 1
Playlist 2
Playlist 3 - tonight!

this is funny. i live a few miles away from KFJC, and i can't imagine a more disconnected listening populace for this kind of programming.

You'd be surprised, that little old 110 watts on black mountain reaches everywhere from Richmond to South San Jose, basically an effective population radius of 2 million (sadly, most of SF is not line-of-sight). I played many a graveyard and evening shift on KFJC when I lived there and was constantly amazed at the number of bay area freaks (and I use the term lovingly) who are literally down for whatever - drones, electro, out jazz, dub, punk, psych, LOTS of psych...

sorry, i just moved here (palo alto) around 2 years ago and i can't say i'm crazy about the music scene ... the east bay wasn't great either but this is just DULLSVILLE ...

Every once in a loooooong while there'll be something interesting at the Palo Alto Community Center... saw Negativeland there a few years back. Keep your eyes open for KFJC live performances either at the college or the once-yearly listener appreciation party at a bowling alley. Imagine, Japanese psych bands, hip hop MC's, and an experimental accordion ensemble and a techno DJ set at 3 in the afternoon while you roll a few frames for free. There's no real scene on the peninsula, but lots of creative, intelligent peopel who listen to it obsessively.

kompakt tracks named after girls: closer musik's "maria", mayer's "amanda", jonas bering's "melanie", the rice twins' "for penny and alexis": these are some of favourite tracks ever. is this some kind of secret formula? which am I still missing?

Thomas Brinkmann's Ernst series.

thanks blunt! wasn't actually expecting any response to this - a nice suprise. you heard the ernst series? which is the best?

Ulla, absolutely!

"is this some kind of secret formula? which am I still missing?"

I assume you've already heard Phillipe Cam's "Karine"?

BTW, I'm in total agreement as to the brilliance of all those tracks you mentioned.

i hadn't heard "karine" actually! very pretty - sounds like the durutti column!

and i'm currently listening to the new rice twins b-side, "goatee", which, though not named after a girl (one hopes) is rather wonderful

as jergins mentioned above, i now see

So Speicher CD3 has been announced, tracklisting looks decent.

The new Douglas Greed single on Freude Am Tanzen is called "Girlfriend In A Coma." Apparently, in 20 years, all German minimal artists will have retired from techno and joined Smith/Roxy Music cover bands.

Not that new it came out in Feb :p I bought it off boomkat a while back, incidentally the A Ille und soeren is the absolute shit. B1 is a horrendous piece of electronica tho.

Nothing official on the Total 8 party at C/O Pop yet, but this may give some clues: http://c-o-pop.de/program.609.en.html

Burger/Voigt 10 Jahre nach Burger/Ink die erste LIVE SHOW! (DE)

Total 8:

CD 1
1. BURGER/VOIGT - MAN LEBT NUR ZWEIMAL
2. JÜRGEN PAAPE - WE LOVE (JÜRGEN PAAPE / GESANG: BOY SCHAUFLER)
3. SUPERPITCHER - RAINY NIGHTS IN GEORGIA
4. PARTIAL ARTS - TRAUERMUSIK
5. REX THE DOG - EVERYDAY
6. THOMAS/MAYER - ÜBERWIESEN
7. JÖRG BURGER - POLYFORM 1
8. SUPERMAYER - TWO OF US (GEIGER MIX)
9. STEADYCAM - IN THE MOOG FOR LOVE
10. NIGHTCATS - INSIDE
11. THE RICE TWINS - CAN I SAY

CD 2
1. HERVE AK - THE CLOSER
2. DJ KOZE - MARIPOSA
3. REINHARD VOIGT - FOLLOW THE DJ
4. JÜRGEN PAAPE - NORD
5. ECHO CLUB - FALTER
6. ARIL BRIKHA - BERGHAIN
7. GUI BORATTO - MR. DECAY (ROBERT BABICZ DISCO UNIVERSE MIX)
8. JUSTUS KÖHNCKE - PICKPOCKETS
9. BROKE - COLADANCER
10. SCHAEBEN & VOSS FEAT SCHAD PRIVAT - COLD WIND
11. OXIA - NOT SURE

The first disc is the most um purist any Kompakt Total has sounded. Pretty much every track is glistening chug chug emo tech-house.

Whenever a new kompakt compilation comes out I realise that I am totally imprinted and will never love anything as much as emo tech-house, no other genre can ever quite measure up.

also: 'boy schaufler' ahahahaha ♡.

that boy schaufler sure likes them love songs

justus kohncke set from beats in space this week is now up for download. very disco.

"Rainy Nights in Georgia" sounds surprisingly businesslike at first (kinda splits the difference between normal emo Superpitcher and driving Spiecher Superpitcher) but I have absolutely fallen in love with it. It's his bid for melodramatic Detroit revivalism immortality. Would be devastating on the dancefloor I expect.

That's encouraging Tim. I've been waiting about two years for something from him to get excited about again. From 2005 and earlier I loved or at least really like most everything he touched. Definitely not the case since then, it's seemingly been one disappointment after another. Of course his track on Total 7 wasn't all bad, but I'd love to feel genuinely moved by something he did again.

It feels like Superpitcher's work has become somewhat less 'immediately gripping' over the years. It doesn't get to me as quickly as the earlier stuff (which I only came to know working backwards after hearing Here Comes Love) but I've realised that that doesn't mean I can't get excited about his later/recent tracks - it just takes a little bit longer. For instance, I didn't think much of "Enzian" at first but I kept going back to it and it really turned out to be a sneaky one. The appeal's now more in the details than in the 'immediacy' (can't come up with a better word...) I reckon.

Also: totally looking forward to the Supermayer album. One more month I think?

I think the supermayer album isn't until september. 'two of us' should be out sooner: I keep going to the kompaktbooking myspace to listen to the geiger mix, which makes my brain feel all tingly. Plus it appears to have the greatest cover ever.

Supermayer album details!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=8766

...um!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2007/supermayer_save_the_world.jpg

That's...unusual!

Wow. That sounds (ok, reads) like it could be terrific!
(also I'm sure lots will hate it)