Wolfgang Voigt/Mike Ink

Why not have a Wolfgang Voigt catch-all thread?

Search function is yr friend.

I find that Burger/Ink "Las Vegas" is a good place to start. It's sort of the triangulated middle between all of his many facets.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/324831-01.htm

^ this sucks! avoid!

Genre: Minimal House/Tech House

lol

What is it, Voigt playing piano?

Burger/Ink's Las Vegas is unstoppable, easily one of the best dance full-lengths ever release.

This is very true by the way, though I wouldn't call the album "dance". It's the perfect midpoint between Ink's minimalism and Burger's more melodic sensibility, I don't really know any other record that sounds like it.

i wish there was a compilation of kreisel 99 stuff

What is it, Voigt playing piano?

― Tuomas, Friday, February 20, 2009 1:58 AM

i guess but using a really bad midi piano sound and playing atonal b.s.

haha, just listened to the first sample. GOSH.

Oh, I didn't notice there were samples on the site. Yeah, sounds pretty awful! I didn't even know Voigt could play the piano, but he should've tried playing something else.

Whatever made him think a fast, atonal piano over a house beat would be a good idea?

Anyway, I've always thought "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." (the original version, not the remix on Life's a Gas) is one of the best house tunes of the 90s, but I haven't really heard anything like that on later Voigt records. Does he have other bangers like that among his early 90s Mike Ink stuff?

Got the Studio 1 comp in the post today...fucking hell it's great!

anyone heard his new EP, Abweichung?
samples sound cool: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/380895-01.htm

I've tried to listen to the Studio 1, and I guess it's okay, but to me it sounds kinda too dry and academic, even compared to other minimalists of the era like Richie Hawtin or Pan(a)sonic.

For those who want to get into Mike Ink's early dance stuff, besides "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." (which I've already repped on this thread - just remember to get the original mix and not the inferior remix on Life's a Gas) you should check out "Paroles" (released under the name Vinyl Countdown) and "Trance Atlantic XS" & "New Jack City" (as Love Inc.). They're all pretty dope.

you finding studio 1 too "academic" is your own problem really, i find those records to be fluid and incredibly funky, and really fun to mix with and dance to

Agreed. His big club stuff, like paroles and RESPECT don't come close to holding my interest like his Studio 1 or Gas stuff.

^ OTM plus add the Freiland eps and M:I:5 to that, too

I love Gas, no doubt about that. That stuff doesn't sound dry at all the way Studio 1 did to me. Maybe I should give Studio 1 another listen? Can't imagine dancing to it though, whereas "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." is one of my favourite dance tunes of all time.

I think this is a personal matter, in part, from what I can tell your tastes gravitate towards that sort of early trancey sound far more than mine do. Studio 1 certainly differs, though, it's much more of an experiment in hypnotic grooves, if there ever was such a thing, whereas Mr. Ink's straightforward dance stuff can be very... direct and insistent in its bangingness, I guess?

And yeah, big ups to M:I:5, too

but there's this cool irreverence and a kind of quirkiness to the studio 1 series that clearly sets it apart from other 90s conceptual techno series

plus those records are undeniably groovy

i think it depends on how you listen to minimal techno anyway. the entire m:i:5 cd in one sitting is kinda tiring, but in the 12" single format they're like these perfect little blasts of corkscrewing funk

i wonder if he'll ever put out a kreisel 99 compilation

Is the new remaster of Burger/Ink's Las Vegas worth buying if I have the original? The tracklisting at kompakt.fm shows they've added "2010" to the name of every track as well as the title of the album, but the player doesn't work.

And was Roxy Music actually sampled on any of those tracks - in the way that "True to Life" was in Love Inc.'s "Life's a Gas"?

so what's with these two new Protest releases?

http://www.kompakt.fm/labels/protest

samples sound groovy.

well, ok then. guess nobody cares about these. anyway, i did find out they're ONLY available from Kompakt, not being distributed thru Forced Exposure. bummer!

they're alright, nothing amazing imo

(sorry)

they're fantastic. to be played at maximum volume.

(um, they = the apathie/empathie release)

wish i could buy them in my country.

schumann/luther are irritating but so catchy

aaah can't stop playing these

still don't think they're amazing tho

geduld (dj koze rmx) similarly

m:1:5 is the absolute bomb funk

So today I went to this used book/record store whose only electronic stuff was a pretty meager crate on the floor under the shelves, of which there's nothing worth buying, and nothing new that comes in. So it was a shock when I saw a Studio 1 colour series record there, and then another, and another, and another, until there were 8 (including one I already had), all for $8 each. I'm still reeling a little bit.

Score! That sorta thing never happens to me anymore.