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Coma (Techno): In Technicolor [Digipak] *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2013-04-16

Tracks: Hoooooray; Maybach; Cycle; Dilettantes, Les; Missing Piece; #; Out of Control; My Orbit; Great Escape, The; Maximal Minimal; Scales; T.E.D.
Artists: Coma (Techno)

The blithe, sometimes daft spirit of Coma's 2008-2013 run of EPs for Firm, Kompakt, and other labels remains on In Technicolor, the duo's debut album. Marius Bubat and Georg Conrad, assisted by an ass...continue...

Various Artists: 20 Jahre: Kompakt Kollektion 1 [Digipak]

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2013-03-19

Tracks: I Think About You - Heiko Voss; Minimal [DJ Koze Mix] - Matias Aguayo (remix); Durch die Nacht [Geiger Mix] - Justus Köhncke/Dorau (remix); Walter Neff - Matias Aguayo; 2 After 909 - Justus K...
Artists: Various Artists

20 Jahre: Kompakt Kollektion 1 acknowledges a 1993 date when some of Cologne's most notable techno producers opened a shop called Delirium. A change of direction in 1998 consolidated the shop, a confu...continue...

Voigt & Voigt: Die Zauberhafte Welt der Anderen [Digipak] *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Intro König; Erste Zug, Der; Keil NRW, Der; Tja Mama, Sandra Maischberger; Sozial; Glocke, Die (Endstation Wiener Platz); Hotel Noki; Akira; Triplychon Nummer 7; Letzte Zug, Der; [Untitled]
Artists: Voigt & Voigt

Brothers Wolfgang and Reinhard Voigt debuted their Voigt & Voigt partnership in 2002. One of that year's releases, "Vision 03," was a robust and storming track that swiftly reached the top tier of bel...continue...

Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2013

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2013-01-22

Tracks: Cuando el Sol Grita la Mañana - Leandro Fresco; Sully [Wolfgang Voigt Mix] - Michael Mayer (remix); Deutz Air 2 - Jens-Uwe Beyer; Jean Vigo - Triola; Point of No Return - Marsen Jules; Recombina...
Artists: Various Artists

Kompakt didn't release their expected 13th Total compilation in 2012. Fortunately for ambient enthusiasts, the label's Pop Ambient series kept humming (or whirring) along to a 2013 volume. The series ...continue...

Michael Mayer: Mantasy [Digipak] *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-10-23

Tracks: Sully; Lamusetwa; Wrong Lap; Mantasy; Roses; Baumhaus; Rudi Was a Punk; Voigt Kampff Test; Neue Furche; Good Times
Artists: Michael Mayer

Released in 2004, Touch -- Michael Mayer's first production album -- was pieced together, closer to a compilation than a single statement. Portions of it were rushed. Mantasy, made during the course o...continue...

John Tejada: The Predicting Machine *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Orbiter; Familiar Mood, A; Ounce of Perception, An; Winter Skies; Radio Channel; Function and the Form, The; Stabilizer; Glaringly Happy; Horizon to Horizon; When All Around Is Madness
Artists: John Tejada

Photographer: Marco Lukini....continue...

Taragana Pyjarama: Tipped Bowls

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-06-19

Tracks: Four Legged - (featuring CHLLNGR); Growing Forehead - (featuring Kicki Halmos); Lo Ng; All Those Weird Things; Just Remember This; Pinned, Pt. 1; Tipped Bowls; Ballibat; Pinned, Pt. 2; Terror Paradise
Artists: Taragana Pyjarama

Copenhagen, Denmark's Nick Eriksen debuted on Fool House with a 2011 EP led by swirling, heavens-reaching tracks like "Ocean" and "Girls." The release was supported by Trentemoller and Michael Mayer, ...continue...

Mohn: Mohn [Digipak]

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-05-08

Tracks: Einrauschen; Schwarzer Schwan; Ambientôt; Saturn; Seqtor 88; Feld, Das; Ebertpatz 2020; Mohn; Wiegenlied
Artists: Mohn

Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger have worked on many projects for the Kompakt label in the past -- both as a duo (on the series Burger/Ink and Burger/Voigt) and separately (with such entities as Mi...continue...

Saschienne: Unknown [Digipak]

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-03-27

Tracks: Unknown; November; Knopfauge; Grand Cru; Somme, La; Caché; Aile Mut; Neue Acht
Artists: Saschienne

Personnel: Julienne Dessagne, Sascha Funke (vocals).

Audio Mixer: Superpitcher.

Photographer: Marco Dos Santos....continue...

WhoMadeWho: Brighter *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-03-06

Tracks: Inside World; Running Man; Greyhound; Sun, The; Fireman; Divorce, The; Never Had the Time; Head on My Pillow; Skinny Dipping; End, The; Below the Cherry Moon
Artists: WhoMadeWho

Audio Mixers: Mads Norgaard; WhoMadeWho.

Recording information: Club Amour Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.

With beats at the forefront, Whomadewho's sophomore album for Kompakt feels very ...continue...

Terranova: Hotel Amour [Digipak] *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-02-14

Tracks: Question Mark - (featuring Tomas Hoffding); So Strong - (featuring Khan); Hotel Amour; Paris Is for Lovers (My Love) - (featuring Tomas Hoffding); Make Me Feel - (featuring Billie Ray Martin); I Want...
Artists: Terranova

Personnel: Yoyo Roehm (keyboards).

The highly mutable Terranova, who emerged in the 1990s as an eclectically funky, pan-European trip-hop/hip-hop/techno collective, reinvented themselves for th...continue...

Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2012

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2012-01-31

Tracks: Manifesto - Mohn; Jackson - Superpitcher; Pan - Morek; Visitor's Bureau [Magazine Edit], The - Magazine; Richmodis - Triola; Rückverzauberung 5 - Wolfgang Voigt; Your Loyalty Lies Long Forgotten...
Artists: Various Artists

Like many of the preceding 11 volumes, Pop Ambient 2012 features a mix of familiar producers, new producers, and familiar producers under new aliases. Aksel Schaufler, whose Superpitcher guise dates b...continue...

Walls: Coracle

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-10-18

Tracks: Into Our Midst; Heat Haze; Sunporch; Il Tedesco; Vacant; Raw Umber/Twilight; Ecstatic Truth; Drunken Galleon
Artists: Walls

Audio Mixers: Alessio Natalizia; Sam Willis.

Photographer: Anna Watson-Smith....continue...

The Field: Looping State of Mind [Digipak] *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-10-11

Tracks: Is This Power; It's Up There; Burned Out; Arpeggiated Love; Looping State of Mind; Then It's White; Sweet Slow Baby
Artists: The Field

Personnel: Axel Willner (E-bow, drums, drum machine, programming); Jasper Skarin (piano, vibraphone, double bass, drums); Dan Enqvist (piano).

Audio Mixer: Jörg Burger .

Recording i...continue...

Gui Boratto: III

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-09-27

Tracks: Galuchat; Stems From Hell; Striker; Drill, The; Flying Practice; Trap; Soledad; Destination: Education; Talking Truss; Third, The; This is Not the End
Artists: Gui Boratto

Various Artists: Total 12

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-09-06

Tracks: Waiting For - Kolombo; Every Minute Alone [Michael Mayer Mix] - WhoMadeWho (remix); Over [Life and Death Mix] - GusGus (remix); White Lightning - Superpitcher; That's What I Told Sanchez - Michael Ma...
Artists: Various Artists

Kompakt's 12th Total is a back to basics move. The sixth through 11th volumes of the series were double-disc compilations, most of which offered too much in the way of pleasant but indistinct house an...continue...

John Tejada: Parabolas

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-06-21

Tracks: Farther and Fainter; Dream, The; Mechanized World; Subdivided; Timeless Space; Flexible Plan, A; Mess and the Magic, The; Honest Man, The; Living Night, The; Unstable Condition; Hollow Hemispheres; U...
Artists: John Tejada

GusGus: Arabian Horse [Digipak]

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-05-10

Tracks: Selfoss; Be With Me; Deep Inside; Over; Within You; Arabian Horse; Magnified Love; Changes Come; When Your Lover's Gone; Benched
Artists: GusGus

Audio Mixer: GusGus.

Recording information: Bongomachine; Veiran Studios.

Photographer: Wojtek Kwiatkowski.

The second release by Icelandic electronica group GusGus on the German ...continue...

Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2011

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-02-01

Tracks: Bernsteinzimmer - Alva Noto/Blixa Bargeld; Once in a Moment - Marsen Jules; Dunkelraum - Triola; Rückverzauberung 1 - Wolfgang Voigt; Beginner's Waltz - Bhutan Tiger Rescue; Schöner Land, E...
Artists: Various Artists

The 11th volume of Kompakt's Pop Ambient series is the darkest one yet, its tone set by a sullen Alva Noto/Blixa Bargeld collaboration that appeared the previous year on the Raster-Noton label. The du...continue...

Robag Wruhme: Wuppdeckmischampflow

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2011-01-18

Tracks: Speak, Memory; Odyssee/Chameleon - (remix); Dexter/Freggelswuff - (remix); Trust [Audion Remix]/Dexter - (remix, featuring Seth Troxler); Dead Room/Trust [Audion Remix]/Dexter - (remix, featuring Set...
Artists: Robag Wruhme

DJ: Robag Wruhme.

Recording information: Augsburg (08/07/2010).

Photographer: Florian Paizs.

Like Wighnomy Brothers' Metawuffmischfelge, released on the smaller Freude-Am-Tanzen l...continue...

Jatoma: Jatoma [Digipak]

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2010-11-09

Tracks: Little Houseboat; Manipura; Dust in Wong; Alang Beach; Durian; Wood Face; Bou; Smoking Keys; Paper Lights; Permafrost; Helix; Ma10as; Luvdisc
Artists: Jatoma

Superpitcher: Kilimanjaro [Digipak] *

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2010-09-21

Tracks: Prelude; Voodoo; Country Boy; Rabbits in a Hurry; Friday Night; Moon Fever; Give Me My Heart Back; Who Stole the Sun; Black Magic; Joanna; Holiday Hearts
Artists: Superpitcher

Photographer: Aksel Schaufler....continue...

Various Artists: Total 11

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2010-09-07

Tracks: Wallach, Der - DJ Koze; Helix - Jatoma; Mensch und Maschine - Jürgen Paape; Walk Over - Heiko Voss/Ada; Rollerskate [Sanfuentes & Thunders Version] - Matias Aguayo; Lapdance - Superpitcher; I Wo...
Artists: Various Artists

Michael Mayer: Immer 3

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2010-06-08

Tracks: Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up [Ewan Pearson's All This Has Happened Before Version] - (remix); Departures; Guinea Pig [Vocal Variation with Julia Biel] [DJ Koze Remix] - (remix, featuring Julia ...
Artists: Michael Mayer

DJ: Michael Mayer.

Recording information: Kompakt Studio 3 (04/2010).

The purpose of Immer 3 is the same as that of Immer (2002) and Immer 2 (2006). Michael Mayer diligently selects and ...continue...

Walls: Walls

CD / Kompakt (Label) / 2010-04-27

Tracks: Burnt Sienna; Hang Four; Virus Waits!, A; Cylopean Remains; Soft Cover People; Strawberry Sect; Gaberdine; Austerlitz Wide Open
Artists: Walls

Photographer: Sam Willis....continue...