Tag: KOMPAKT

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Extrawelt

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Extrawelt

    Greg Fenton reviews Extrawelt – Cover Blown – Kompakt Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe, aka Extrawelt, know all too well the inherent power that lies between drums and bass, shuffling a funky insistence alongside that dashing air of mystery supplied by a spread of exotic synths. Honey Hunter is all that and more, combining a…

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Orlando Voorn

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Orlando Voorn

    Greg Fenton reviews Orlando Voorn – Numb Denial – Kompakt Great production by Orlando Voorn, who combines elements of mystery with a touch of classic Acid House and indelible spoken words, all of which leave a brilliant taste. Cruising along the sonic highway for more than seven minutes, this pushes hard against notions of subtlety…

  • Wata Igarashi – Agartha – Kompakt

    Sounding like all the circuits connecting future and past have been plugged in together Wata Igarashi’s amazing music startles and stuns. You can sense the pulse of influences coursing here and there as certain modulations shimmer across the spectrum but these are fleeting moments in this extraordinary journey through forward motion. Numbers like Floating Against…

  • Tobias Thomas – Connecting The Dots – Kompakt

    Beginning with Marcus Schmickler’s unearthly Particle/Matter is sure-fire way of grabbing attention, sonic or otherwise. Tobias Thomas’s mix then proceeds to contact and connect all in its path as sounds from the future, occasional the past, are transporting into an emotionally changed journey into sight, tone and timbre. Have to say that the feeling compacted…

  • Thomas Fehlmann – Böser Herbst – KOMPAKT

    Produced as the soundtrack to a documentary by Volker Heise, ‘Herbst 1929, Schatten Ãœber Babylon’, offering historical insight to the third season of the television series Babylon Berlin, Thomas Fehlmann has created a wonderfully evocative selection of music diving headfirst into the resolution of grainy atmosphere, lost memory and the sequence of time. Pieces like…

  • MARCUS SCHMICKLER – Particle/Matter-Wave/Energy – KOMPAKT

    A stunning piece of work from Marcus Schmickler whose experiments into the boundaries of sound and its consequent construction play out here across some thirty seven minutes. Sometimes touching ecstasy, sometimes reaching deep within igniting forgotten images. The concept explores when two galaxies collide by gravitational forces. Split in two parts on the LP release…

  • Tom Demac – Serenade – Kompakt

    It feels appropriate to listen to Tom Demac’s newly founded creation as blue skies drift by outside in the morning light of cool. Serenade pulses with a breezy energy that lifts the senses skyward as pointed piano smoulders, producing hints of yearning in amongst the probing drums and questioning voiceover. Is the word ethereal correct…

  • Terranova – Let It Fail feat. Sifa & Ivory – Kompakt

    Like a breath of freshly charged air Let It Fail contradicts any negativity with the promise of moving forwards. The arrangement bustles with ideas each igniting the next as shuffling, funky rhythms punctuate teasingly, repetitive stabs amide the warm glow of atmospheric pads. Totalling in the region of eight minutes this comfortably reinvigorates and refreshes…

  • Kenneth James Gibson – In The Fields Of Nothing – KOMPAKT

    Sometimes the depth reached for by Kenneth James Gibson tearing fields of vision is almost too much to fathom. Sometimes to exhilarating to feel safe with. This new album starts and ends with the feeling that something else has just happened. Beyond that the poignant, perfect piano of single Far From Home says more in…