Posts Tagged ‘kompakt’
KAITO is that familiar whisper in the centre of KOMPAKT’s kaleidoscopic strobe light to the many loyalists that know us well. To think it has been over 8 years since he dropped the unsuspecting masterpiece “Beautiful Day” on our doorsteps makes us as giddy as the realization that we have watched his son grow up [...]
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Tags: atmospheric, hiroshi watanabe, kaito, kompakt, melodic, tech house, techno, trust
On the 10th of August Music Krause will release Ian Simmonds new album named “The Burgenland Dubs”.
There are stories which like fairy tales find a musical determination. The treasured Ian Simmonds, who currently is performing as singer and poet on tour in Japan with a 18-piece Japanese improvisational orchestra, is responsible under his given name and as Juryman for the most innovative thrust in view of new paths on the electronic [...]
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Tags: ambient, atmospheric, deep, dub, house, ian simmonds, jazzy, kompakt, musik krause, techno, the burgenland dubs
If this was an audition then Audision certainly played the part. The duo featuring Tobias Schmid and Niko Tzoukmanis have announced the release of their debut LP Surface to Surface which will be released on &nd Records. It will hit the public sometime in August, however an exact date has not been specified.
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Tags: &nd, atmospheric, audison, deep house, kompakt, minimal, surface to surface, techno
Cologne, Germany’s legendary electronic house label Kompakt brings us “Adaptations – Mixtape #1″.
It’s always entertaining to drive around Cologne with ADA. The conversation starts off with a saga about her trip to the city car impound thanks to her illegally parking her chariot, while tunes crackle through her relic of a car stereo cassette player. Looking back, our trips always seem to end with chorusing some Madonna [...]
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Tags: adaptations, atmospheric, blondie, deep, kompakt, mixtape, mixtape #1, techno
Although techno was incubated in the intense industrial atmosphere of Detroit, it has found a second home in Germany. With its pulsing 4×4 rhythms and metallic synths techno recalled early electronic greats such as Kraftwerk yet also pointed to the future.
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Tags: 10 years, compilation, germany, house, kompakt, minimal, tech house, techno
The Field – aka Sweden’s Axel Willner – is very much the jewel in Kompakt’s crown, with his debut album From Here We Go Sublime ending up the the best-received album of 2007 according to music critic aggregators site Metacritic.
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Tags: album, ambient, atmospheric, axel willner, kompakt, the field, yesterday and today
Precisely two years after “Doppelleben” Justus Köhncke delivers his third album “Safe and Sound”.
The 10 Tracks on “Safe and Sound” came together over the past 24 months, mostly while touring the planet both as a live act and as a DJ. “Safe and Sound” resonates the screams of today’s dancefloor with Justus’ wisdom of dance music’s long and wondrous history in a most enigmatic way. Right from the [...]
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Tags: album, berlin, disco, justus köhncke, kompakt, minimal, nu-disko, safe and sound, tech house, techno
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