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90% of the music released on kompakt is boring as fuck

Electroclash was awesome and fun.

I mean, sure, a singles compilation across Bikini Kill-Le Tigre-Julie Ruin would be ideal.
New Radio is a top 10 American punk song for me though.

Def agree abt electroclash

Electroclash backlash was thinly veiled homophobia, also

90% of the music released on kompakt is boring as fuck

― marcos, Friday, 17 May 2019 18:24 (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been true since around the time they released Total 12 but the noughties was an incredible run, since then though I would put the figure closer to 99%

I still very much dig it, still go running through the woods on occasion listening to Thomas Fehlmann Justin Kohncke Jurgen Paape

the catalog is a little samey and era-specific but they're just really rich recordings

xp but yeah referring to that hot run

i always thought i was the only one who never got the hype about kompakt. rich is not the adjective i'd associate with the music on that label. embarrassingly repetitive stuff.

The first few Total comps, Michael Mayer's Immer and Gui Boratto's Chromophobia are all good.

Kompakt was fine and had loads of great tracks, it's just that the minimal trend it started/mainstreamed has, pretty much to this day, sucked nearly all productional/compositional ambition, boundary pushing or whatever you want to call it out of 'underground' club music <- ok controversial opinion right there

I buy the latest Total compilation every year. They're mood music, and I can put them all into a giant playlist and shuffle them. I don't dance; I listen to them while writing, or driving.

same

it’s dance music ffs, more like 40% is jackin, 20% is corny, 40% “boring”

like many dance labels

now tell us what you think about perlon

that wasn’t a response to unperson, just the original opinion

immer 2 >>>>>>>> immer 1

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Based on seward's recommendation I have blind-bought several Kompakt releases, albums by Lansing-Dreiden, and scooped Deep Purple from the bargain bin. I currently own none of these albums, they were all returned and/or resold

at one point i started buying ever mott the hoople lp

also my phone tried to autocorrect that to mitt the hoopla lol

I really like Mott The Hoople and my last post was not a crit of seward's taste but an expression of "different strokes" etc.

goes without saying we all worship skot :)

Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap because some (most?) of their fans were meatheads but all three of their original studio albums whip ass. I feel like if they came out today, in "the Twitter age," they wouldn't be nearly as broadly successful but way more intensely beloved.

Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.

Denzel Curry's cover of 'Bulls on Parade' has made them slightly less uncool.

Rage Against the Machine got a way undeserved bad rap

there should be a thirteenth note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen%E2%80%93Pierce_scale

Twitter would've slaughtered them for signing with Sony and railing against multinational corporations.

― Siegbran, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:43 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this. I'm sure there's a few successful acts that thrived in previous decades that would struggle if they appeared now due to things like Twitter etc. but I guess that's a whole 'nother thread that I'm not willing to start.

I buy the latest Total compilation every year. They're mood music, and I can put them all into a giant playlist and shuffle them. I don't dance; I listen to them while writing, or driving.

same. Kompakt is really good music for working and I'd say maybe 75% of music listening I do is while working, so this kind of stuff still occupies a big place in my music consumption.

Yes but is it trve ambient?

whenever I try to listen to ambient when working I just start falling asleep. I need something with a good tempo beat.

whenever I try to listen to ambient when working I just start falling asleep. I need something with a good tempo beat.

Exactly. I have a Spotify playlist of all the Kompakt "Speicher" singles/EPs that's a major writing/editing soundtrack for me.

the Pop Ambient compilations are still mostly good in an unmemorable way, whereas the last Total compilation was actively unlistenable

There’s one on every messageboard: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/controversial-beer-opinions-thread.559492/page-114

Denzel Curry's cover of 'Bulls on Parade' has made them slightly less uncool.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, May 21, 2019 8:45 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

re: rage covers, i’d pay good money for a john scofield record doing them

came here to post this tho

dickie betts >>>>> duane allmam

mountain mam

The amount of good songs Prince made after Purple Rain can be counted on 1 hand. Sign O the Times' production on the whole (some tracks avoid it) is a prime example of mid-late 80s bad synth, overly gated ugliness.

a lot of the production makes me think of, like, sunset strip hair metal... a good thing

or, like, hysteria. i haven’t actually ever listened to hysteria

Re: Kompakt, yeah, a lot of it is not too exciting, but that's been true of dance and club music since... forever?

my favorite underrated Kompakt dude? Jurgen Paape. i wouldn't say i normally like stuff that could be described as "muscular," but i love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJm72_Mo1ps

Rickie Lee Jones's best album is The Magazine

Tab.......25 > Dopesmoker

the band are yacht rock

Madonna's music is bad and Madonna in general is an embarrassingly lame human being

I feel that way about many (most?) pop stars, but not Madonna

She means a lot to my spouse but, yeah, I'm often mystified by what people seem to get out of most of her work, especially since the 80s. "Live to Tell" is cool, though.

Some great singles and a solid album (Ray of Light). Good enough in my book.