Aether Everywhere Podcast #17: Konsidering Kompakt
This weeks episode of the Ae radioshow consisted of another mega-mix, but this time not of a particular band as we did last time with Stereolab, but instead with the illustrious and prolific Kompakt Label. Started by GAS’s Wolfgang Voigt and couple fellow compatriots with a love of, and desire to marry gaussy drifting ambience to 4×4 german techno. Kompakt has grown exponentially in the 10 years since it’s creation thanks to it’s incredible standard of quality, and as the last couple years has managed to break through to listeners not as comfortable on the late night dancefloors as they are in headphones.
Infact as per-usual with the knee jerking indie-critics, many are saying Kompakt has reached some percieved “saturation point” and many of these critics have been claiming a “Kompakt backlash” is in order or underway – which given the last years amazing and varied output by label artists such as The Field, Pluxus, and Gui Boratto, would seem to us to be absolute hogwash and bandwagon jumping.
It’s our opinion that Kompakt remain supremely relevent, engaged and still on the forefront of a genre they themselves pioneered more than a decade ago. Regardless, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to compile a seemless two hour mixtape of some of Kompakts more recent triumphs to let you decide. Enjoy.
Transient – Pluxus / Beautiful Life – Gui Boratto / Intershop 6 – Dettinger / Brutalga Square – DJ Koze / Der Westenplanet – Markus Guentner / Heroes – Hug / Nitsa Is 11 – Ferenc / Closer Dance – Closer Musik / Align – Mikkel Metal / Estella – DJ Koze / Sandia – Ferenc / Phanto & ghost – Michael Mayer / Gate 7 – Gui Boratto / Tactic without Practice – Hug / Chromophobia – Gui Boratto / Kinoton – Pluxus / Wenn Musik der Liebe Nahrung Ist – Markus Guentner / Kappsta 2 – The Field
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