Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Zwei

They got Total 5 on vinyl, but I'm gonna wait and get the cd. otherwise, I probably won't listen to it as much. I'm finding this is more and more true of me and double albums. or quadruple albums if we are talking Rap records.

I also got yesterday: Thomas Fehlmann - Visions Of Blah - This might turn out to be my fave, but i haven't heard the whole thing.
The KOLN*Kompakt 1 cd and Total 4

Of the other stuff I've picked up, I really really like Mayer's Immer and Triple R's Friends. Both of those are great.

I still need to hear that T.Raumschmiere monstertruck album. Cuz the way everyone describes it makes it sound like it would be right up my alley. They didn't have that there though. They did have an older album by him though.

I am a little scared of that one mix cd that has the Langley Music School Project song on it for some reason.

I dig the Superpitcher album. I know that people are kinda divided about it on ILM. I guess I could do without the Fever cover though. (has anyone heard that album by San Serac? Ice Age? Just curious. It's pretty funny. Fans of the Superpitcher album might like that. I don't know who he is though. It kinda reminds me of some of Sven Vath's stuff too. the deadpan new wave lothario thing.)

Okay, now I'm gonna go to the store and buy that mash-up album where the dude mixes Beenie Man and The Streets and Jay-Z together. Hahahahah!!! Just kidding. I love ILM.

Err...how did that happen? ;)

So what is the release date of 100?

anyway on first listen it's mostly amazing. favorite so far is probably the dettinger remix of 123 (no gravity). but i'm definitely with philip rather than matos so far, anyway.

Philip, your positive statement that the Kompakt 100 release already sounds like something that you've been listening to for years might be similar to what Matos felt when listening to it. Except his glass was half-empty and yerz was half-full.

I can't think of anyone who has been effusive on this level. My perception is that most of the releases have pleased at least somebody here.

Surely the ultimate barometer for Kompakt blind rapture is whether or not you defend Pass Into Silence (aka The Rugrats Take Cologne).

And yes, saying "unheimlich" like that is easily the most pretentious thing I've written all month.

This isn't for your regular club music fan, this is for people who like depth, intelligence, and meaning to their music. A CD has never struck me as a piece of art, yet this CD has made me realize that music just isn't about mindless beats. Don't get this CD if you are looking for a good party album. Get this CD if you want some great, intelligent music. Highly recommended.

Is it just Matos on here that doesn't like it?

But then again, he doesn't like the Kaito album.

x-post w/ mr. pollen...

i am thinking of timecode like metro area meets basic channel, although that is the cliche to end all cliches.

Andy that is a truly great pseud.

Tim, does this store happen to have André Kraml's recent 12" on Firm? If so, BUY IT INSTEAD and wait for Total 6. (This goes for anyone who reads this, actually. "Feel Electric" gets my vote for neuromantic single of the year thus far.)

I've read some good reviews for it, and I remember people on ILM liking it. And the idea of lots of glam-beats appeals to me. I think I brought him up on another thread cuz I looooooooooove that "Musik" song so much on the Speicher cd1 and that's the cd that sold me on the whole Kompakt thing (And might be my fave even now. I've listened to it more than the others anyway. I love every song on that thing.) Is his earlier album more like "Musik"?

Noooooo!!! Are you guys talking about the beatless tracks that end the album? How on Earth are those tracks difficult?! Or even "difficult"?

I mean stuff like that odd dub track that is (from memory) before "Gratis". As I recall one of the beatless ambient tracks is flat out amazing ("Du Fenlst Mir"?) and the others all hover between good and very good.

The Lump I'm talking about releases 12 inches with packaging all one colour like yellow or green. Don't know the label.

The remix of Sakura is infinitely better then the original. Why this version was not included on Pop Ambient 2004 baffles me - it sounds like it was tailor-made for it.

Anyone else a bit upset with the Klimek full length? It seems like the best tracks already ended up on previous Pop Ambient compilations.

i still *love* this! maybe i'll go off it in time, but at the moment it just makes me really, really happy.

A lot of the other stuff is great though Tracer. I reckon you'd really like Joachim Spieth's "You Don't Fool Me" if you haven't heard it already.

Hey Tim no but it sounds like I should check them out.

Hey Andy do you have the Firm comp from 2000 - Auf Tuefel Komm Raus? Is it any good?

Hey Tim no so I wouldn't know. I'd like to find out though.

speaking of which, the last track, Markus Guentner's "In Moll (Hannes Teichmann Remix)," is soooo gurgly!!! (haha I wrote that last post before the disc was finished.) anyway about half of this is grade-A K-pakt and the rest sounds decent too.

http://www.discogs.com/release/101677

his pre-kompakt album sounds quite similar to my ears.

(kompakt & psyche '85!)

This is so true. Probably a matter of time.

My track of the year so far, I think - take your 'Timecode' and stick it up your arse.

That said Metro Area run it close with PROTON CANDY.

Is that from the covers EP/album? I have something that has Koehncke versions of Wichita Lineman and Old Man and Nobody Does It Better. Maybe we've already covered this, but...what is it?

It's a remix of a track by Forever Sweet, which is a pre-kompakt Tobias Thomas / Reinhard Voigt / Michael Mayer trio. I am not joking.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Forever_Sweet

My day hath been made.

hey phil-two, go & download this frenchbloke mix, & between 15:06 & 17:48 there's an amazing bootleg of shockheaded peters' "i, bloodbrother be" & t. raumschmiere's "the game is not over"!!! I've chopped it out of the mix; one of those mp3blog people should host it or something.

In other news I finally downloaded The Orb's "Masterblaster" today - I'd forgotten how amazing it was.

And finally, look for 30 minute Mayer set from Mayday this year - he rocks out "Personal Jesus" to stunning effect! Great set the whole way through, on par with the Peel Sessions set maybe.

Has anyone heard the new Fehlmann single, "Little Big Horn"?

after reading tim's last post on this thread, i listened to total 5 while running my errands this morning and found, to my pleasant surprise, that most of it sounded great, and, hey, maybe i had underrated it after all. there's still a three song stretch in the middle though that wears me out...

I do know what you mean about the middle section of Total 5 though Jess - it's like if they'd programmed the Rauschmiere, Lawrence and Dettinger tracks on Total 3 all in a row - they're good tracks individually but they're probably too spare and limpid to enjoy in succession.

This whole "Kompakt is overrated" thing seems to come down to what people want to be the defining feature of microhouse (hardly a unified genre obv). If you're firmly in the Perlon/Villalobos/Dear/Wruhme camp then I can understand being underwhelmed by most Kompakt material but if you love what Kompakt has always primarily specialised in - sparkly methadone tech-house - then I think it's hard not to see the Total series and all the DJ mixes as, like, sacred documents or something.

I do love that stuff; that said it's usually only when it's placed in a shuffle context that I'm thoroughly knocked out by it - I think because the shuffle qualities counteract or at least intriguingly frame the smooth/gliding qualities which can otherwise be slightly totalizing. Which is why I was moved to mention that Joachim Spieth track - the way it combines all these standard ingredients for standard Kompakt tracks with a shuffle groove such that it sounds so restless and involving. I really feel like I can get lost in it.

I'm finding that, personally at least, shuffletech seems to grow in stature over time, rather than recede as you might expect, and I'm really surprised when people dismiss it as being little more than a clever trick. At times it sounds to me like techno from a parallel universe or something, a place where time or reality is out of joint. The more pop/musical it gets, the stronger this sense of wonderful displacement. And this is two years since I first fell in love with it via Immer, too.

gooot it, mate!!! i re-read marc bolan's "hot love" as love song to my hubby christian who happens to live in hamburg, so "he is faster than most and he lives on the coast, a-a-ah!". and he ain't no bitch and i _love_ the way he twitch etc. etc. etc.......

thanks for getting the point! cheers - jk

Posted by: Justus K?ke | June 22, 2004 11:34 AM

I love that man.

Tracks like Masterblaster and Rujon/Nepal just build in a completely different way from a standard techno track. It's really hard to put a finger on why, but it lends a pop edge to even the grimiest sounds, while at the same time adding a depth to even the most repetitive track. And something like "Unter Null" which you'd expect would have dated horribly in the intervening time because it's anchored so solidly around a very simple melody still sounds utterly fresh.

The only shuffle tune that hasn't retained appeal for me is actually "Psychometry" which feels very rigid and metronomic in comparison to the Speicher stuff...

we are going to hopefully work with them on a forthcoming 'nite'

i always get the impression that the er...kompakt-mafia on ILM generally hate on trapez's um...."non-lush" aesthetic. i love em too, especially the design concept, although obvious theres loads of duds, there is loads of good stuff. especially the scsi9. man, i love scsi 9

What I love about the Kliks nights is that they explore beyond on the Kompakt-y type stuff which can - to be frank - be a little dull on the dancefloor, despite their obvious home-listening qualities.

I'm such a popist w/ this stuff when I first hear it so of course the ones that stand out to me are Weiche Zaune rmxed by the modernist and "hot love" of course as well.

And it probably *is* a bit too subtle and non-popist; Trapez releases tend to make Hypercity sound really gregarious, and I like to consider Hypercity as forming the outer border of the introspective, minimal end of my house spectrum of pleasure.

btw, my review of kompakt 100 is out in the july edition of the wire. wait, no, june. whatever. anyway, there you go. one of the more difficult reviews i've ever had to do. i like the photo though...

Tech-house is perhaps the style of dance music that is most in danger of being anti-personality because it can potentially lack both techno's mechanical urgency *and* house's sultry swish - a lot of garden variety tech-house is pretty much a vaguely pleasant loop seemingly purpose-built to be as inoffensive as possible.

I don't think Trapez is as bad as that, but its more boring releases do feel like that brand of dj tools tech-house with added "micro" signifiers. Mind you I haven't heard the Triple R mix. And I *do* like 21:31 (Oliver Hacke in general is great though).

also re trapez: jeff samuel is a must-hear.

i think anti-personality is a good substitute for non-popist and i agree that is when you get people saying (hypothetical, but plausible) things like, "65 minutes of immaculately mixed tech-house that goes nowhere." i'm sure something like this has been said on ilm.

that said, i think it's really hard to pin it on a particular label because so many artists record for multiple labels these days. there's a gabriel ananda release that just came out of treibstoff (and it is ace) with a b-side that is actually called "raumtraum"!

Jeff Samuel's f-cote on Trapez is great, but quite a bit of the others he has done on the label haven't been all that amazing to my ears. Besides, he now has karloff to work on, in the same way that Jeremy Caulfield seems a touch more directed to his own dumb unit with Jake Fairley. Similar, MIA has drifted off from Trapez to do an album, and SCSI9 (after excellent releases on Trapez) is with kompakt now.

As for Gabriel Ananda, I just don't get it at all.

there's a dumb unit comp that just came out that will probably be good. also, isn't MIA part-owner of sub-static? and the scsi-9 album came out on force tracks, but they have released all over the place as well (kompakt included).

re: Trapez - well thats why i said ILX hates trpaez, tongue in cheek slightyl. ILX is a preety pop-ist world, and the dryish geeky non-lush nature of most of trapez stuff doesnt seem to fit into the ILM TasteStructures, but still.

Gabriel Ananda - I loved the tune he did on Trapez, the yellow label one, got the new one with flowers on the cover, i like that too. but i hadnt heard anythign about it before i bought it so i was expeting anything

I don't know if you could give me a track I.D., there was this one track that I remember Heib playing when he came down before. It has a "verse" section that's quite sparse but with a scratching type effect over the top, but starts teasing you with a distorted, saturated, "chorus" - at first you'll just get a couple of seconds of it before it goes back into the verse - but everntually it jumps into a full blown fist-pumping version of the chorus with a melody reminicent of New Order.

Any Ideas?

As for Ananda, I love love "Schaulkeldren" (sp?) but that's all I know by him I think.

Re: the "steely, slightly abstract sound of Total 1" - the prob. of course is that when we remember the Totals, we remember "Falling Hands" or "Everybody's Kissing" or "Tomorrow" or "Amanda", not "Zu Dicht Dran" or "Safety First" or "Musik". It's not that the latter group are bad tracks, but I think the former are the equivalent of "focus tracks". And then each time Kompakt release something that falls closer to the latter group than the former group, it's a bit of a surprise. At least this is how it works for me I find.

Hence I ended up replacing all my Maurizio 12s with the 10th year anniversary pressings and stuff.

As for Kompakt 100, they were meant to ship it everywhere on Friday but it hadn't arrived, so I will pick mine up this week.

michael mayer in glasgow on friday - woo!

http://www.yomgaille.com/bordel/kittens/

it's pretty bad Adaml.

FORTHCOMING AND RECENT RELEASES ON KOMPAKT:

KOMPAKT 100 (JUNE)
SPEICHER 18/12” REINHARD VOIGT / HEIB (JULY)
KOMPAKT 101/12” SCSI-9 – MINI (JULY)
SPEICHER 19/12” MAGNET / WHIGNOMY BROS. (JULY)
KOMPAKT 103/12“ SUPERPITCHER HAPPINESS REMIXES BY MICHAEL MAYER / LAWRENCE (AUGUST)
SPEICHER 20 JUSTUS KÖHNCKE / DJ KOZE (AUGUST)
KOMPAKT 104/12" MIKKEL METAL - DORANT/KALUGA (AUGUST)
THE MFA - THE DIFFERENCE (INCL. SUPERPITCHER RMX) (AUGUST)
SPEICHER 21/12” STEVE BUG/T.B.A. (SEPTEMBER)
KOMPAKT 102/12” REX THE DOG – FREEQUENCY (SEPTEMBER)
SPEICHER CD2 VA. MAYER MIX (SEPTEMBER)
KOMPAKT 105/12" ANDREW THOMAS – HUSHHH (OCTOBER)
SPEICHER 22 JAKE FAIRLEY/T.B.A (OCTOBER)
KOMPAKT 106/12" THE ORB – KOMPLOTT (OCTOBER)

NOVEMBER: MICHAEL MAYER ALBUM !!
JUSTUS KÖHNCKE ALBUM FOR NEW YEAR!!
KOMPAKT CD 36 POP AMBIENT 2005

michael mayer album... indeed. let's see if it actually happens.

Jon: have faith. The Superpitcher album happened. Kompakt tend to fulfil their promises sooner or later.

Fuck, no Total 6??? When there's so much that could go on it? They could make a great Total 6 just from already released stuff, eg (off the top of my head):

Magnet - Rising Sun
Rex The Dog - Prototype
Michael Mayer - Privat
Justus Kohncke - Timecode
Ferenc - France
DJ Koze - Gekloeppel
Kohncke/Dorau - Durch Die Nacht (Wasserman Mix)
Reinhard Voigt - Protekt

- round that off with what I presume are some quality cuts from the latest Kaito, Fehlmann, SCSI-9 and Superpitcher Remixes 12" and you've got a full set with no effort or strain from anyone involved. What gives, eh?

And Pop Ambients are usually released in November/December. I'd be pretty upset if it turn out there are only 2 Kompakt CDs to look forward to for the rest of the year....

Still, the future 12" lineup is looking pretty damn good.

Also, within one (two?) days, Little Big Horn is now everwhere on Slsk. Kompakt shit gets aroundddd.

How long is it supposed to be, because mine cuts out at 5.07 very suddenly.

If it's meant to be longer, and someone has it on mp3, would they be able to send it to my gmail account (nickdastoor at gmail dot com)? I am going to order the 12" but I really want it now for a CD I'm making.

It comes up as track time 8:35, but if I leave it to play from the start, it stops abruptly at 5.07, as I said. But if I get iTunes to start skip to somewhere in the middle, it runs to 8:35 but still ends in exactly the same sudden way. If I re-rip it to AIFF format or whatever, it then comes up as track time 5:07.

I've tried starting the AIFF and original at the same track time and they are clearly at different places in the track. I can't work out what's going on. I've tried re-downloading it from Byron Bitchlaces and the same happens, so I think I definitely need another copy, unless it really is supposed to stop suddenly at 5:07. My brain hurts.

I think the original is a bit too camp and screechy for me. This guy raves about the Da Gieger mix - everyone seems to have a different favourite.

Can anyone with a copy of the vinyl confirm the track time for me, then? If it does just end like that, then I guess that's OK, though I expect the person I'm making the CD for will assume I've cocked up.

Can I get some love for "Abermorgen" ?

I've also noticed there are some MP3s of Speicher 17 being shared that cut out of halfway through.

Quite enjoying the new Scsi-9 and Fehlmann singles. Is it me or does Kompakt seem to be stronger on vinyl then on CD this year?

also the new speicher mix by mayer was just released. anyone heard it yet?

http://www.milkywayjp.com/tonight.html?on_date=2004-09-09

tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Wighnomy Bros. - Wurz & Blosse
3. Wolfgang Voigt - Nachschub
4. M. Mayer - X
5. Magnet - Kisskisskiss
6. DJ Koze - Brutalga Square
7. Blitz - Are you ready to rock
8. Joachim Spieth - Use case
9. Reinhard Voigt - Kontakt
10. Reinhard Voigt - Protekt
11. Voigt & Voigt - Vision 04
12. Freiland - Jens Harke Mix
13. DJ Koze - Der Säger von St. Georg
14. Fuchsbau - Null/Eins
15. Naum - Ari

(see Komnpakt labelpage)

For what it's worth, I was at Beatschubiger and Heib, and Tobias Thomas/Jake Fairley, but missed the most recent one - triple R - had just got back from a mammoth kompakt weekend in cologne so i think that is excusable.

Tobias Thomas tho. he was a bit shit I thought - no charisma (the bloke, i mean) and played boring tracky stuff, without any noticable interesting production that surely is the point of minimal music. I mean, if you take the euphoric bits and cheesy house motifs away, the rest has got to be pretty good...

Beatschubiger, on the other hand, was stunning. Maximal house all night, he enjoyed himself, the crowd 'went wild', etc etc...

Anyway, the point of this is that of course mayer is playing at fabric in a couple of weeks with luciano and craig richards, which sounds lik a good idea to me...

If that makes sense.

His track on Total 3 is still an all-time classique.

Matos OTM! About the background part. I don't know from golden ages.

but its been a pretty lowkey year for the label.

the wighnomy bros track off speicher 19 ("wurz and blosse") is currently rocking my house. *grin* i put it in a mix which i will post soon as soon as i have some web space sorted out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/Chewshabadoo/BerlinPub.jpg

Should be going to Hideout at The Volks next Thursday - they occasionally rock the Kompakt stuff. Apparently there won't be a Kliks night till November now, but they are looking for a smaller venue (like Club Mango) so they can do more regular nights as well as the bigger nights at Audio.

when I get my holiday snaps back, i'll have to post a truly spoddy shot of me standing outside the kompakt shop (with purchases) overwhelmed after finding the motherlode. unfortunaltely not yet equipped with a digital camera.

i'm so lame at going out on schoolnights, so i've never made it to hideout.

Shame about Kliks - mango was a great club, (bar the name). ALso its just round the corner from my flat, which makes stumbling home convenient. But they've turned it into a rock club - haven't you heard dance music is dead! - so there's always loads of over-madeup people sulking outside now... boo.

also, rememeber people, its not Kompakt but Matthew Jonson is playing tonight, check the haywire site

The Speicher series has changed up a bit lately, no? They've allowed a bunch of moodier sides in with the bangin' stuff.

I'm up to track 6 on Speicher 2 now, and Mayer's mixing is incredible.

This leads me to believe that every Kompakt MP3 I've downloaded is mislabelled!

Even more amusing is the fact that I have the actual vinyl release of Speicher 10 but I have been without a record player for the past 6 months.

both are on Touch.

i have the new mikkel metal, rex the dog, and andrew thomas - hushhh 12"s on the way though, wheee. nice end of the year for kompakt i'd say, plus we get another kompaktpop release too (which i've been a huge fan of) though i have no knowledge of who THE MFA are!

Hmm.. I want this 12".

This land is Freiland
This land is Freiland
His name is Reinhard
His name is Reinhard

While most of the releases are peak-hour bangin' stuff, lately they have been a number of tracks that just simmer and boil without actually releasing the tension (see Heib's "Diana Dies Tonight", or both sides of Magnet/Wighnomy Bros split).

drool..

When is he gonna get another album out?

My family and I have been dying for more of his german pop. Nothing like getting the kids dancing to a little Justus.

Knowing what I know now, it shoud have been something along the lines of: "Michael Mayer needs to offer Freeform Five a ten-album deal and a mandatory dubmix on every Speicher release!"

Nothing like getting the kids dancing to a little Justus.

Really? Thanks for the tip-off. ;)

But hurrah, new Justus album!

I dunno, do otherwise techstep producers putting bursts of guitar in their tracks count?

(the sad thing is that it really did get me perfectly; I'm like a Little Britain parody of Simon Reynolds)

:Knowing what I know now, it shoud have been something along the lines of: "Michael Mayer needs to offer Freeform Five a ten-album deal and a mandatory dubmix on every Speicher release!""

Ha I will get over that particular obsession in about a month I'm sure (have you heard it though Omar?).

Listening to Touch now. Love it, though I think he should have snuck Pensum A2 in there - it would fit perfectly. I can see how the lack of vocals might disappoint some, but if any of the dancefloor tracks appeared in a mix everyone would be like what-the-fuck-is-that-toon?! Is it just me though or if you split the stylistic difference between Touch and Here Comes Love you'd have the perfect Kompakt artist album?

I'm not sure what I think about Mayer cooling on schaffel (as reported on Geeta's website). It seems to suggest an avoidance of obviousness that's a bit too scrupulous - and in this case a bit premature I think. I'd hate to think that Kompakt might second-guess themselves back into a tech-house corner.

yes yes this is what i listen to every night as im getting ready to go out. i love this song.

*There's an older Voigt track called Hot Love. Did they just reissue it for Schaffelfieber 2 and credit it to another one of his aliases?

if only kompakt would maek out with sugarland records. the world would be overrun with thier offspring.

Thirded.

Voigt's set was surprisingly better than Mayer's. He opened up with the full version of "Bolero" (!) while people were entering. He switched halfway into a live set, which later I found out consisted of him doing live manipulation on Fruity Loops tracks. He must have stretched out "How We Rock" and "Protekt" to over ten minutes, which were full of amusing breakdowns where he would play a single square or sine wave over and over while taunting the audience to beg him for more.

Mayer's set was extremely bass-heavy, with stuff like "Wurz und Blosse", "Neue Luthersche Fraktur" (from "Touch"), and even "Revolution 909" near the end. No schaffel or Immer-style stuff the whole night, but it was still mixed very well. Reinhard was goofing off the entire time, hitting cups into the audience with a rolled up poster.

Apparently Mayer is playing a set at APT later today.

Tim, the Superpitcher / Ada show is being billed as a schaffel night, so obviously is still on the tip.

Sometimes I find that and sometimes I find the opposite. Kompakt 100 makes for oddly unpredictable listening.

I still resent the lack of a Total 6. The next one (presuming the series continues) better be a 2-disc set spanning 03-05.

Which one?

Ask Reiny where I can get a "Party Pirates" tshirt.

Yes I realize I am a fanboy.

- is the last year and a bit of vinyl releases gonna get a Total treatment at all?
- do they feel the gap narrowing between Kompakt and "mainstream" electro/techno/house? And how do they feel about electro's dominance of dance music right now?

Re the Profan comp - I'm referring to the one that came out in 99 or something. It's got a yellow and white cover with "Profan" in red, and tracks by the two Voigts, Jurgen Paape etc.

I would be more interested in that Forever Sweet album.

That's a great question. I was going to ask something similar, probably inspired by a thread you started. Touch seems like a much bigger record. If they're building things up, tiring of shaffel, what's next? More vocals?

I'd like to think that Mayer's Fabric mix is still somehow indicative of Kompakt's current post-minimal direction (and perhaps fittingly there's no schaffel on it) - more songful, lots of vocals, still dark and romantic but much fuller and more accessible than before.

So that "Fackeln im Sturm" is DOM whereas the Profan comp one is GRUNGERMAN. There were a few Fackelns about...

I think the same record released under pseudonyms Jon.

PROFAN 17 - GRUNGERMAN: Fackeln im sturm
HARVEST (1998) - DOM: Fackeln im sturm
KREISEL 99/31 - GRUNGERMAN: Fackeln im sturm

+ GRUNGERMAN turned up on the 'Kompakt Extra Fur Cisco' 12" comp...

Here ends your afternoon of anal retention with Jon.

If not, should we start one?

1 the orb - falkenbrück
2 markus guentner - innenfeld
3 gas - pop
4 triola - mondlied
5 pass into silence - blue
6 popnoname - gold
7 dj koze - hummell
8 andrew thomas - soft bullet
9 klimek - Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death
10 peter grummich - sunbeams
11 ulf lohmann - wasted years
12 thomas fehlmann - with oil

Felt cover?!

Yes

klimek - Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death

That track of his on PA '04 referenced "Killing an Arab" but wasn't a cover. Who knows? Makes total sense that he likes Felt though.

Sub-Static's Falko Brocksieper playing live.

but seriously, can we expect more jacking grooves from this guy? I'm bored of thoose big fat elctro synths now. my suspicion is entirly based on the one track of his i've heard:

Birdrun on Jack To Future comp, on resopal...

"The Mikkel Metal cd-album "close selections" is now finally ready. It is a collection of 11 tracks from earlier echocord releases plus 3 new ones. The offical release is mid-January, where it is sold from Kompakt. Until then a few copies are available in Copenhagen."

This should be really good. I think MM is pretty underrated around here.

so, what are people's verdicts on justus, a week on?

Also I should repost this comment from Geeta' Blog:

"Just got confirmation that Mayer is playing at the Canal Room on 2/23 and that Triple R will be at Sub Tonic on 3/4. Can't wait... "

now, back to the present, i.e. stuff i won't be able to afford until after the rest of you are bored with it already.

tbc Januar 2005
17.01.2005 HEIB KOM 111 THE UNDERTAKER 12"
24.01.2005 JUSTUS KÖHNCKE KOM 113 ELAN / TASTE 12"
24.01.2005 DJ KOZE / GEBR. TEICHMANN KOM EX 25 SPEICHER 25 12"
31.01.2005 JUSTUS KÖHNCKE KOM 112 DOPPELLEBEN LP
31.01.2005 JUSTUS KÖHNCKE KOM CD 38 DOPPELLEBEN CD

tbc Februar 2005
14.02.2005 DIRK LEYERS KOM 114 WELLEN EP 12"
21.02.2005 ALTER EGO / REINHARD VOIGT KOM EX 26 SPEICHER 26 12"
28.02.2005 MARKUS GUENTNER KOM CD 39 1981 CD
28.02.2005 MARKUS GUENTNER KOM 115 1981 12"

tbc März 2005
07.03.2005 MICHAEL MAYER KOM POP 6 LOVEFOOD REMIX / SLOW 12"
14.03.2005 THE FIELD KOM 116 THINGS KEEP FALLING DOWN
21.03.2005 TBA KOM EX 27 SPEICHER 27
29.03.2005 SUPERPITCHER KOM CD 40 MIX CD CD

tbc April 2005
04.04.2005 ULF LOHMANN KOM 117 TBA 12"
25.04.2005 TRIOLA KOM 118 IM REMIXRAUM

tbc Mai 2005
02.05.2005 DJ KOZE KOM CD 41 ALBUM CD
02.05.2005 DJ KOZE KOM 119 ALBUM

Also for those in Sydney and Melbourne, Michael Mayer is doing his thing - Melbourne 23rd & 25th January, Sydney 28th January. (And Herbert is playing Sydney on the 29th January. I am skint and desperate to travel to Sydney for these shows. Anyone feeling generous? Or anyone driving from Adelaide to Sydney for those dates? [Yeah, dream on...])

Superpitcher mix cd in the works!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/oneworld/index.shtml

Tracklisting:

Kaito - ' Awakening' (Kompakt)
Markus Guentner - ' Regensberg' (Kompakt)
Thomas Fehlmann - ' Making It Whistle' (Kompakt)
Jurgen Paape - ' So Weit Wie Noch Nie ( Playhouse Mix)' (Kompakt)
Jonas Bering - ' Marine' (Kompakt)
Superpitcher - ' Don't Think Too Much' (Kompakt)
Ulf Lohman - ' Musik' (Kompakt)
Klimek - ' Milk and Honey' (Kompakt)
M. Mayer - ' Love is Stronger Than Pride' (Kompakt)
Freiland - ' ROT' (Kompakt)
T. Raumscmiere - ' Ost-Strom' (Kompakt)
Schaeben & Voss - ' Dicht Dran' (Kompakt)
Ulf Lohmann - ' Java' (Kompakt)
Lawrence - ' Gilbert' (Kompakt)
www.jz-arkh.co.uk - ' Ddrhodes' (Kompakt)
/jurgen Paape - ' Triumph' (Kompakt)
Closer Musik - ' Departures' (Kompakt)
Closer Musik - ' One Two Three ( No Gravity)' (Kompakt)
M.Mayer - ' Heaven' (Kompakt)
Tal - ' Tal '90' (Kompakt)
Superpitcher - ' Tomorrow' (Kompakt)
Closer Musik - ' You Don't Know Me' (Kompakt)
Markus Guentner - ' Donaunebel' (Kompakt)
Jurgen Paape - ' So Weit Wie Noch Nie' (Kompakt)
Justus Kohncke - ' Wasistmusik' (Kompakt)

dj koze full-length! i am kind of excited about this. i want him to make a record that's just ten different versions of brutalga square.

what happened to them?

Kompakt Records

date venue city state with
2/23/2005 Canal Room New York NY Michael Mayer, Jake Fairley
2/24/2005 Smart Bar Chicago IL Michael Mayer, Jake Fairley
2/25/2005 Mells Beauty Bar Minneapolis MN Michael Mayer
2/26/2005 Bleu Detroit MI Michael Mayer, Jake Fairley
2/27/2005 The Mod Club Toronto ON Michael Mayer, Jake Fairley
2/28/2005 B Side Liquor Lounge Cleveland Heights OH Michael Mayer, Jake Fairley
3/6/2005 Holocene Portland OR Michael Mayer
3/7/2005 Chop Suey Seattle WA Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer - Heiden
Heiko Voss - I think about you (gieger mix)
Rex the dog - I look into mid air
Kaito - Release your body
Dorau & Kohncke - durch die nacht(original & Geiger mixes)
The mfa - The difference it makes

I'm slowly working my way through the first Kompakt thread as I'm really on the hunt for more stuff along similar lines to the above. It;'s obviusly taking a while to get through it all, dl it and then check if it's this kind of thing (I don't really get the more basic Studio & Auftrieb stuff at the moment). Is there anything I should be checking in the meantim, to keep my going while I wade through it all?

And as for individual tracks, since you have no Superpitcher yet how about?

Phong Sui-Wintermute (Superpitcher Remix)
Tocotronic-Hi Freaks(Superpitcher's Beautiful Freaks Remix)
Ghost Cauldron-Ambient Skit (Superpitcher Ambient Remix)
Superpitcher-Heroin

[have just noticed how badly typed my message above was....]

That was (incidentally!) licenced from Border Community, which is ironic for me at least, since I had given up on the whole UK scene when I discovered Kompakt. Border Community is James Holden's label, UK-based. If you like that, try his mix CD, called Balance.

And other stuff I've enjoyed in the same vein:

Superpitcher - Mushroom (on one of the Total comps)
Carsten Jost - Krokus (Superpitcher Rmx) on "You dont need a Weatherman Remixes"

...and I can't think of anything else right now

xpost - downers are ok!

Triple R Traum / Trapez / MBF - North America Tour
Feb. 25th - Capsule Bar, 13376 Madison Ave.,
Lakewood, OH
also with: Jesse Somfay & guests
Feb. 26th - No Regrets, 219 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON
also with: Adam Marshall, Eric Downer, Eliot Lazor
Feb 27th - Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave.,
Chicago IL
also with: Kate Simko, Jesse Somfay
March 4th - SubTonic, 107 Norfolk St., New York, NY
also with: Marcos Cabral, Smartypants and guests
March 5th - Oslo, 1456 Woodward, Detroit, MI
also with: Retale, Shaun Reeves, Seth Troxler

I swear at least two thirds of the stuff they played was better than everything they've done to date: totally compelling hypnotic seductive hard-edged psychedelic sex-techno, like Captain Comatose meets Tiefschwarz meets Villalobos. They have this weird tantric thing going on where each track goes on for about ten minutes, swelling and mutating, cresting, pulling back, then slamming back into the groove: basically everything was structured like Black Strobe's "The Abwehr Disco". Release an album already!

I'm not sure how this combination came about, since Fairley's never released anything on Kompakt. I assume this is just a chance for Fairley to come home for a bit.

speicher

speicher

speicher

Triple R Traum-Trapez-MBF North America tour 2005

Feb. 25th Capsule Bar 13376 Madison Ave, Lakewood OH (cleveland)
wsg. Jesse Somfay and guests

Feb 26th. No Regrets 219 Dufferin Street, Toronto ON. Canada
wsg. Adam Marshall, Eric Downer, Eliot Lazor

Feb 27th. Subterranean 2011 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL
wsg. Kate Simko, Jesse Somfay

Mar. 4th SubTonic 107 Norfolk St. New York, NY
wsg. Marcos Cabral, Smartypants and guests

March 5th Oslo1456 Woodward, Detroit, MI
wsg Retale, Shaun Reeves, Seth Troxler
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DJ KOZE/GEBR. TEICHMANN: Speicher 25 12" (KOM EX025EP). 25th volume in this series, featuring DJ Koze (a.k.a. Monaco Schranze) with "Der Jager von St. Georg" and Gebr Teichmann with "Dande And More". Watn the actual Kompkat label description? Okay, you asked for it: "DJ Koze turns in the bass in such an extent that - the chicks shit in their pants by fear. Bet on it?"

shit by fear! the kompakt pr/writer person is hilarious always. or at least when necessary. i mean markus guentner gets more sober treatments of course.

Yeah the Fairley album is pretty ace, although I'm not sure the vocal numbers are totally necessary (not that his vocals are bad, but they're not great either, and they get in the way of the piledriving menace of the grooves, especially on the too obviously post-Raumschmiere/Alter Ego opening schaffel track). And better than the recent Misc. album, which surprised me as after "The Magic Number" I had assumed Misc. were the undisputed masters at this sort of sleek apocalyptic electro house. My favourite thing by Fairley though is the EP he did for Sender a year or so ago - "Going Down The Road", I think?

Okay so a visit to the Kompakt shop revealed that this is slightly wrong: a few of the tracks they played came from the 12 inches out on Firm (including the Schad Privat one). But still, the recorded versions, while still ace, aren't as epic or intense!

speicher

I was sort of right, Speicher != Kompakt (not exactly)

Yeah the Fairley album is pretty ace, although I'm not sure the vocal numbers are totally necessary

I agree with this, with the exception of "At Night". That track is so monstrous, there isn't anything he could could sing that could ruin it. Besides, the vocals are just the icing on that track, they're more like toasting than singing.

fuck it ,speicher = all music!

(been listenign to speicher 2 on repeat recently)

(from weeklydig.com)

By the late ‘90s, it seemed that DJ culture was prepared to grab America by the throat and choke full throttle to the point of seizure. Unfamiliar names creeped onto the covers of Spin and Rolling Stone; celebrity DJs from across the pond nestled comfortably into domestic residences; the DJ/mix sections of our music shops edged dangerously close to top 40 country. In a direct reflection of our European pals, names of headlining DJs carried nearly as much superstar currency as names of bands that might take the stage the following night. Finally—so it appeared—electronic music labels were able to promote their most prized commodities on name recognition alone, even if the DJ craze was ephemeral at best. But somehow, Cologne, Germany’s Kompakt label was left lurking in the shadows, waiting for its moment under scrutiny but never fully expecting that day would arrive.

“Even a few years back,” explains Michael Mayer, cofounder of the Kompakt stronghold and arguably its finest DJ specimen, “Kompakt was considered the opposition to all that was popular about dance music. Nobody seemed very interested in what we were doing at all!” The inclusion of “nobody” seems a bit modest given Kompakt’s longtime feverish cult following—those interested in the Kompakt sound are damn interested. Pinpointing the direct coordinates of their sound, however, is an exercise in oversimplification. Whereas a majority of electronic music labels associate themselves with a particular style, Kompakt has sought to keep all possibilities wide open. “The original idea was, do everything under one label,” Mayer says of his lofty ambitions. “We wanted to do ambient as well as more traditional techno and minimal house. At the same time, I needed to make sure that each release would be recognized as another Kompakt staple.”

From an aural perspective, each Kompakt release punctuates the hallmarks of traditional German electronic music—pulsing jets of sound with pops and hisses, strategically placed clanks, off-kilter beats, the occasional acid squelch and plenty of breathy white space. But remarkably, Kompakt releases have a uniformly warm, human quality to them often lacking in electronic circles; there’s a distinct feeling that most tracks were pieced together with ingenuity and instinct, and not across some ProTools grid.

If there’s any one reason why Kompakt is now, suddenly, demanding American attention, it may simply be Mayer himself. Until recently, his production work has been relatively sparse, but his experience as a world-class DJ came to a head at last year’s “Kompakt vs. Rephlex” event in Brooklyn, which cemented Mayer’s position as one of the most creative and elastic DJs of our time. As with his fabulous recorded mixes (2002’s Immer and 2003’s Fabric 13, in particular), Mayer’s performance in Brooklyn peeled the paint off the walls with a masterfully layered selection of everything from minimalist German schaffel to full-on diva-pitched, floor-packing stompfests. “It’s obvious that being a DJ is my first love,” says Mayer. “I’m never content with my performances, so I’m always trying to keep the process dynamic, so it doesn’t get boring. For me, DJing is more fluid than production work.”

The first true test of Mayer’s studio prowess came in the form of his first full-length release on Kompakt earlier this year, Touch. Oddly, the album was greeted with lukewarm response by the very same proponents who had championed Mayer’s outstanding DJ sets. “Production has always been my bastard stepchild,” Mayer says in his defense. “Based on my DJ mixes, people had strong expectations about what my album should sound like—some wanted a purely vocal thing, others hoped for something more ambient, and another even suggested I go disco! Ultimately, I went the personal route and chose tracks I liked best. I know that when I play them in a DJ set, I made the right decision.”

So why has it taken so long for Kompakt to surface in the public eye? Why is this the first time Boston has booked Kompakt for a DJ set? If Mayer has anything to say, it’s because other electronic music is getting pretty fucking boring. “There hasn’t been much progression in classic techno, for example,” says Mayer. “As listeners of this music are getting older, they’re looking for something richer and more melodic, which is something we’ve always offered. This alternative has gotten more popular, so it’s showing up in the boxes of major, big-time DJs, which is not something I could have predicted even two years ago. This has enabled me to pursue DJing on a much larger scale.”

For his Beantown debut, Mayer insists that he’s brewing up a special brand of town-specific madness. “Is the band Boston actually from Boston?” he asks. “Because I’ve got this bootleg of ‘More Than a Feeling’ …” Mayer trails off gleefully. If passion is worth anything, Mayer is here to reignite the DJ craze—at least for one sweaty evening.

Don’t be all chumpy and miss Michael Mayer’s first ever Boston appearance on Tuesday, March 1, at An Tua Nua, 835 Beacon St., Boston. 10pm/19+/$10. 617.262.2121. www.kompakt-net.de

30.04 + 1.05 Eat Your Own Ears/Dedbeat Weekender
Friday 30 April:
ESG (LIVE)
KOMPAKT PRESENTS SUPERPITCHER (LIVE) AND JAKE FAIRLEY
SOUL JAZZ SOUND SYSTEM PRESENTS 100% DYNAMITE
ANNIE (DJ SET)
plus special guests and DJs
Saturday 30th April 8pm - 4am
Koko 1A Camden High Street, London, NW1, Camden Tube
T. 0870 432 5527 www.koko.uk.com
£15adv www.ticketmaster.co.uk 0870154 40 40
Rough Trade, Covent Garden T. 0207 240 0105

Saturday 1st May:
EGYPTIAN LOVER (LIVE)
RHYTHM AND SOUND (BASIC CHANNEL)
REPHLEX'S BRAINDANCE PARTY with
BOGDAN RACZYNSKI (LIVE)
DMX KREW
CYLOB
DJ REPHLEX RECORDS
plus special guests and DJs
Sunday 1st May 8pm - 4am
Koko 1A Camden High Street, London, NW1, Camden Tube
T. 0870 432 5527 www.koko.uk.com
£15adv www.ticketmaster.co.uk 0870154 40 40
Rough Trade, Covent Garden T. 0207 240 0105
www.dedbeat.net www.eatyourownears.com

i was at my local virgin music store yesterday and the electronica section (yes, that's what it's called) was stocked to the gills with kompakt. they have all of the total vinyls on one wall and it looks great. it made me happy anyway. i bought the first dettinger album (which was exciting cos i thought it was oop) and pop ambient 2005. no doppelben though...virgin prices suXX0r, but i am all about instant gratification therefore i am probably funding more shitty reality shows about ceos.

yeh annie and superpitcher = ILM love!
only m.i.a and d double e could complete the perfection, although don't think i'll be into it. not sure whether to come down or not.

is dedbeat now just gonna be nights in london rather than an actual festival somewhere?

oh, and seeing as im doing my best to turn this thread into a kompakt related listings page, the orb and dominik eulberg are playing in Leeds (eulbergs ONLY UK date!) on march 5th. unfortunately its at the mint club. its a technique night.

btw, the Mayer Boston night has been re-located to The Phoenix Landing.

(Although I had hoped to dine at Audubon Circle beforehand...)

werent me wot wrote it lass

it seems to be a bit weird, what have esg to do with superpitcher and...annie?

im quite up for the egyptian lover

and even more worried that "the orb" (meaning.....?) might just put little fluffy clouds on repeat....

What can we do to ensure Mayer's first visit to Greater Boston is not only memorable (for him as well as us), but worthy of repeat?

Is it time for a chain letter?

SPEICHER 27: M OF M
NO NO, DEAR CITIZENS, THIS IS NOT M. MAYER AND HIS NEW PSEUDONYM - ITS A MORE OR LESS WELL-KNOWN PRODUCER TEAM BASED IN BERLIN.

Any idea who this may be? Anyone heard it yet?

Moritz and Mark?

(Actually I have it on good authority that it's Rex the Dog.)

(Andy, I have a Tarkus cot for you.)

There's one tune Mayer's been playing a lot lately, with this rather coasting live-sounding bassline. I was told the record was a Corporate Criminals 10" on Soma. Anyone have any idea what it could be? It's not that Hystereo release...

Now to sleep.

Re: Hot Love

It has been repressed as a 12" by Mute, with remixes by Wasserman and DJ Koze.

RE: The aceeeed mix (aka Ewan Pearson's dub) of One, Two, Three - No Gravity by Closer Musik

Apparently, very quietly released on Pearson's Out of the Loop Recordings.

lets talk speicher:

this says speicher 26 is alter ego, but the kompakt site says its mmmmmmmmathew jonson!

whats the story?
why have you gone on to speicher 27 without telling me about 26?
has anyone seen the get physical tshirts on the kompakt site? i want some pics!

i didn't want the UR shirt...i wanted the UR hoodie that tobias was telling me they had! :(

haha yeah the snooty guy at the register (who was wearing an underground resistance t-shirt, i might add) told me he already owned TWO identical underground resistance t-shirts, and that i couldn't have one!

http://www.hardwax.com/pictures/records/41349.jpg

musik krause:

http://www.decks.de/decks/gfx/clubwear/mk_navy.gif

If only I (someone! anyone!?) could have captured the audio. I don't know about the lackluster sets/experiences other cities are rumored to have had, but Herr Mayer was absofreakindiculous Tuesday night: a healthy portion of Kompakt classics and/or remixes thereof with sides of the smooth/gliding minimal house I've come to love and expect from Der Mann aus Köln.

This was the type of night that spawns myth and legend.

The one I am talking about has a rough, gliding bassline that is somewhat similar to Mayer's "Heaven" from Total 1.

and last call for DOMINIK EULBERG tomorrow (sat) ni leeds (+ the orb, but whatever)

im not really looking for too much swirling ambienty dubby stuff tonight

"kom pop 6 . michael mayer / aguayo - lovefood rmx / slow . [12"] 03.2005"

Which means that either "Slow" is a Aguayo track and Mayer has remixed "Lovefood" himself, or (as is more likely seeing as I've seen mentions of an Aguayo remix of "Lovefood") the "Slow" cover is by Mayer himself.

"Corporate Crimwave" actually is structurally very similar to "Touch", for me anyway.

i cant begin to list all the tunes he fucking played tonight, mainly cosd i dont know theuir name,s but they were really familiar, but also alien hearing them on a big driving bassy sound system, some speichers "libertango" (never heard that before, it was off the chain?!?!!?!?!), quetzal,some of his own tunes, just a hour period of most ridiculous, insane, twisting swirling funky musioc ever, he was loving it, drinking champagen all night which he passed round everyopne towards the end, er.....just bass, girls, dancing, acid, everything

fuck

its 5.30 i just got in

its one thing to listen to all this awesome stuff on the net and on headphones etc. but hear it in a club and dance tio it?!?!!?!

thats when you know what it really is for fucks sake

the orb? yeah they were ok. but they werent DOMINIK EULBERG

honestly, the whole crowd was in shock. all the rich townies, the scallies, the guy with the "glastonbury 1994" tshirt, the guys molesting women all night, no one knew what hit them.

heres the rest of the dates:
gio and see him u fucks

right time for bed
Dominik Eulberg dates
19.02 Lagerhaus (Mannheim) with M.A.N.D.Y.
26.02 Stadthalle (Friedland) with Mia and Dirt Crew
05.03 The Mint Club (Leeds) with The Orb
11.03 Silly's (Den Haag) with Rene Breitbarth
18.03 Die Registratur (Muenchen) with Triple R & Adam Kroll
01.04 Radioshow @ Studio Brussel (studiobrussel)
02.04 Recyclart (Brussel) with Triple R
08.04 Stenbgade 3 (Kopenhagen)
16.04 Centrum (Erfurt)
22.04 Das Boot (Wuerzburg)
30.04 Rohtabak (Doebeln)
07.05 Loft (Barcelona) with Gabriel Ananda
15.05 Airport (Wuerzburg)
21.05 Minimal Dance Festival (Thessaloniiki)
27.05 Ekko (Ultrecht)
03.06 Cocoon (Frankfurt) with Sven Vaeth
11.06 Icke Micke Club (Wien)
18.06 Le Triptyche (Paris) with Ada
24.06 Wagenbau (Hamburg)
15.07 Melt! (Graefenhainchen)
23.07 Le Fonque (Stuttgart)
30.07 U60311 (Frankfurt) with Karotte
06.08 Nature One (Kastellaun)
12.08 Sonne Mond und Sterne (Saalburg)

I'm pretty certain he's playing Kliks on Friday (11th March) at B'Lo - which is the relaunced Joint club with a much better sound system. I'll be there.

Re: Dominick Eulberg, the Kliks guys are trying to get him down to Brighton in the next few months - I'll let everyone know if it comes through. There is also a two part mixset online somewhere whicih is excellent, I'll try and find it again for you.

http://www.dominik-eulberg.de/04/downloads/sound/

Dammit. That's exactly why I couldn't be arsed to make the journey (well, that and not having anywhere to crash) but still.. good to know it rocked.

philip you have GONE TOO FAR

That is all.

also: nanotrance is brilliant

And well, visions of Mayer and Schaufler at CERN in white coats (Schaufler still wearing his woollen shawl of course, going:
Aksel: “okay there they go und Michael watch the alpha particles this time, maybe we can get a real soft bassdrum out of this.”
Michael: “jaja, we really need to mike these anti-particles for the right anti-oomph-oomph oder Wolfgang will lock us in till we get it right.”
Aksel: “Scheisse, if I get my hands on that Sherburne fellow!”

huh? details?

If I like Akufen, Matthew Dear and Secondo then what else will I like

about matthew dear and akufen.

"9. Meloboy – Hot Love (DJ Koze remix) [Novamute]

This Justus Köhnke-produced shuffle cover of Marc Bolan is campy fun but nothing special in its original form. Luckily someone called in DJ Koze (hands down the best living DJ in Germany at the moment, no contest) to remix it and he’s turned it into a 12 minute acid tease. Ivan has been raving about this since Koze played at Kill the DJ in January and it’s massive."

!!!

Naturally I was so blown away by Koze's track that I tried to track it down with everyone's favorite file-sharing network. I've the found track (a few times, in fact) but, well, long story short: I believe the one floating around is Justus Köhncke's "Sofort" (from the selfsame Speicher), just mislabeled.

And as far as Koze's remix of Meloboy's Hot Love, as MF Gill can surely attest having also heard it at Mayer's "Boston" gig two weeks ago: it's hott newz.

hahaha

Yeah, but the dead ones are kicking the living ones' arses right now.

Shall we consider this our public service for the week? That is to say, my query, your confirmation, and Geeta's spot on description of the the track itself will/should help others on P2Ps understand that sometimes the A-side of Speicher 20 is actually mislabeled the B-side, and vice versa. At least in downloading it three different times from three different users that's been the case.

shumi & superstyler (minimal/tech), ben delay (filter house) and hans nieswandt (everything) know more about buildup and release, always keep an eye on the crowd, and are less eager to show off their skills. and if you count magda as german, koze goes downnn

A long time ago DJ Koze did an ace "Hot Love" style mash-up/remix of Steve Bug's "Loverboy" with a Blumfeld track. Tobias Rapp raved about it to me but i only just found it - v. v. nice!

The new Dirk Leyers EP is incredible, btw. Makes half of the pain of Closer Musik breaking up go away...

also: otm about "Wellen". Induces visions of a jacuzzi in a large white bathroom...

http://www.paxahau.com/node.htm

Sebastien Tellier - "Politics" (Le 80's Pomp)

http://mysite.verizon.net/planck.length/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ipod_kompakt.jpg

(hopefully the file isn't too big)

lawrence - spark
dj koze -
michael mayer - lovefood (matias aguayo mix)
triola - penthouse ag (robag wruhme mix)
oliver hacke - polar
psychonauts - world keeps turning (highfish mix)
nathan fake - dinamo
wighnomy bros - wurz and blosse
superpitcher - happiness (lawrence mix)
max mohr - trickmixer
sebastien tellier -

It frustrates me so when I am angry at things for being good.

JOY!!! Lawrence! And some other dynamite stuff too.

Are you kidding? This is so much cheaper than vinyl!

Superpitcher - Today

1 Lawrence - Spark
2 DJ Koze - Let's Help Me
3 Michael Mayer - Slowfood (Matias Aguayo Mix)
4 Triola - Leuchtturm (Wighnomy's Polar Zipper Remix)
5 Oliver Hacke - 21:31
6 The Psychonauts - World Keeps Turning (Highfish & Zander Remix)
7 Nathan Fake - Dinamo
8 Wighnomy Bros - Wurz and Blosse
9 Superpitcher - Happiness (Lawrence mix)
10 Max Mohr - Old Song
11 Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle

On first listen, it is excellent - very microgoth!

Im März erscheinen Misc. und Eimusik Remixe für Dominik Eulbergs Rocco Branco Projekt auf Platzhirschschallplatten ! Ausserdem laufen gerade die Vorbereitungen für Dominik Eulbergs Mix-CD "Kreuscht & Fleuscht" auf Hochtouren, die dann ab Juni über Kompakt erscheint...

http://www.dominik-eulberg.de/04/index.html

Was kannst du uns über deine demnächst erscheinende Mix-CD für Kompakt erzählen?

Die Mix-CD wird „Kreuscht & Fleuscht“ heißen. Es wird eine Doppel-CD geben, mit dem typischen Sound den ich so auflege, mit einer ruhigeren „Kreuscht“ CD und einer derberen „Fleuscht“ CD. Erscheinen wird sie Mitte Juni...

shouldn't there be an umlaut over the 'o' though?

German Amazon is your friend. May 2.

"Superpitcher joins the illustrious club of his predecessors like Tobias Thomas, Triple R, DJ Koze and Michael Mayer. His contribution to Kompakt's commonly appreciated mix CD series is entitled Today. In the reader's smart mind, the synapses are really happy to be allowed to form a direct link between the words 'Yesterday' and 'Tomorrow', actually the titles of two classic hits in Mr. Superpitcher's most brilliant oeuvre. After a look at the past and a look at the future, he is now interested in the present, the now, the today that is a lot more inconceivable than the long over and accepted past or even the future, still so far away and only subject to speculation. The now is more complex. Everything happens at the same time and it is impossible to get only the slightest idea of what's going on at the
moment. The only thing that helps is the very healthy quality inherent in all human beings to focus only on certain particles of the present. Superpitcher's focus, apart from his most impressive career both as remixer and producer, is on black vinyl records, especially on those engraved with dramatically beautiful, throughout emotional and very modern dance music. Very artistically and with a good deal of understatement, he weaves his mix as if it was silk
that has been magically turned into vinyl. First there is snuggling Laurence, the nice guy from Hamburg, with his track 'Spark', followed by DJ Koze who transforms the whole thing in a cosy self-help group for psycho-social paranoids. Confusion has never been so beautiful and the 'sense of the present' has never been so close. So, the trip continues, with a strong and most appealing leaning towards sex and morbidity. Michael Mayer's 'Lovefood' sounds in the congenial version created by former member of Closer Musik Matias Aguayo. It would be too much of a cliché and completely wrong to emphasise the inflationarily used Latin factor; the remix by this Chilean artist is like great, internationally accepted role-model sex. And it is unnecessary to write again about Robag Wruhme aka Wighnomy Bros: Everything he is doing at the moment is fine and simply great. His version of the track 'Penthouse AG' by Triola underlines this statement with the brightest marker available, and in three colours. Then, our protagonist superbly speeds up another evergreen from the house of Traum label: it is Oliver Hacke's track 'Polar', an outstanding work that deservedly belongs in the category 'masterpiece'. Ten minutes are still not enough. And further on, with Highfish's breathtaking remix version of Psychonaut's track 'World keeps turning'. Why have they never been awarded the Grammy for this track? Something is going wrong with this world today. But this is no news. Brand new however, is the following track made by one-of-a-kind Nathan Fake who, via Border Community, has made almost everybody crazy who can spell the word Techno (no, no, it's not written with kkk!). 'Dinamo' is a milestone, and both, epic and complex! And then there are Wighnomy Bros again with the track 'Wurz & Blosse', the bass line of which can really move mountains and valleys. Lawrence still does not have enough either and presents
his great remix version of Superpitcher's track 'Happiness' that should not be missing here. Finally, our guide knowingly takes us to the last objects of interest for the ears: Max Mohr's beastly deep track called 'Trickmixer', and then, he leaves us with a heartfelt hug with Sebastian Tellier and a track '...every mix CD or night should close with'."

The second half of The Field's "Thought vs Action" reminds me a lot of the intro to The Four Tops' "Reach Out (And I'll be There)"

My wife and I are contemplating a one-night stop in Köln (on our way to Zürich) for the express purpose of attending said weekly and were/are wondering about your opinion thereof.

I haven't danced in Deutschland since Love Parade '97, but the same was true then. Most of the time my cohorts and I didn't bother leaving for any club before 2:00 AM. Reading that the vibe can be massive, however, has put a smile on my face.

I just found out about this yesterday while walking past the 13th note on my way to mono, from where I bought 'timecode' in celebration.

The fact that it is followed that day after by tony conrad live in glasgow then then the day after that by chris brokaw edinburgh means I am on for a killer weekend.

superpitcher and M Mayer remix Losoul on Playhouse together - SUPERMAYER!!! it's very minimal and very very good!

its very trance and very very good

Superpitcher disc cover...the anticipation's killing you. Isn't it?

I'm particularly excited for the new Kaito single and Speicher 28.

http://www.4481.org/quop/005/info.html

I am so happy I may burst.

i bought a few singles from from kompakt mp3. i'm tempted by the new frank martiniq album...

I have been away from this thread for a while, trying to get my head round the stuff I found out about on the akufen/perlon/todd edwards thread I started.

Glad to be back tho.

On the new DJ Koze CD on Buback (under his Adolf Noise guise, it's mostly beatless ambient stuff) the hidden track is his schoolboy choir version of "We are the world."

I guess this should be expected as he included Langley Schools and "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" on his mix cd.

He's also remixing Ada's "Eve."

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=ARCHES&organ_val=22064

The staff at the Arches are not too keen on the whole buy tix and pick up one the door but the Optimo crew have assured us that all will run smoothly on the night, although probably wouldn't hurt for you to let them know what your doing (see email address on their website)

the markus guentner is as if the last four years haven't happened. which i can't decide if that's a bad thing or not.

http://www.dreck-records.com/newsletter/2005_04/index.php

JUNE 2005

06.06.2005 KOM 121 KOMFORT 12" THE ORB
13.06.2005 KOM EX 29 SPEICHER 29 12" REINHARD VOIGT / ALTER EGO
27.06.2005 KOM CD 41 SOLOMILLO CDFERENC
27.06.2005 KOM 120 SOLOMILLO LP2 FERENC

AUGUST 2005
15.08.2005 KOM CD 42 VARIOUS ARTISTS CD TOTAL 6

REINHARD VOIGT´S ROBSON PONTE WITH REMIXES BY ALTER EGO AND REINHARD VOIGT COMING OUT IN JUNE

I can't believe he ends it with that Sebastien Tellier record, and the penultimate Max Mohr track is amazing, I guess this is exactly the style of stuff I buy now but I just can't get over what a fantastic mix this is.

I think it may be the equal of Fabric 13, certainly has the same gift wrapped personalised present feel to it!

The new Lawrence album is coming out on Novamute believe it or not (there is also a new T Raumschiere disc called "Blitzkrieg Bop" coming out this summer too.) I don't think I am liking it as much as his first two records - it seems to combine the Sten sound and Lawrence sound. Now I know the difference between Sten and Lawrence is like the difference between blue and sky blue, but give me the latter over the former anyday.

There is no way I'm ever going to catch up with all of this stuff, but I'm trying. Gas sucked me in, now I'm hooked.

KOMPAKT presents TOTAL 6
Friday, August 26th 2005
Location secret yet
 
Live:

Ferenc
Reinhard Voigt
Baxendale
Rex The Dog
Justus Köhncke & Band

DJs:

DJ Koze
Michael Mayer
Superpitcher
Tobias Thomas
Geo
Jo Saurbier
Peta
Veronika
Anima
Navid Tahernia
Tobias Becker