Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/total_22

It’s common knowledge that KOMPAKT’s TOTAL series serves as our yearbook, a musical wrap up of the past 12 months. Therefore it doesn’t come as a surprise that this year’s edition is informed by another pandemic year, where dancefloors were still mostly deserted and the devastating developments in Eastern Europe. Kompakt’s A&R team still kept on foot on the imaginary dancefloor, while scouting different realms apart from the big room euphoria. Anyway, brain dance has always been a key ingredient to our catalogue.

The Voigt brothers are opening this year´s vinyl edition in an unusually romantic fashion. ‘Why’ combines a bubbly FM bassline with lush washes of looped guitars. High off the (presumably high) heels of her recent album ‘Jesus Was An Alien’ she delivers a spanking new excursion into her sonic world, ‘The Hill’. Our Mexican friend Rebolledo makes his first ever solo appearance on TOTAL with his trademark hypnotic desert sound. Jürgen Paape is calling a spade a spade with ‘Le Monde À Changé’ – The world has changed indeed. Our prodigal son, Matias Aguayo, returns to the mothership with ‘Cinco Y Rojo’. An exercise in Chicago-esque groove theory paired with a cheeky visitor from Denmark. Spot the reference and win a pair of hooves. It’s hard to find a quality party around Cologne without Jonathan Kaspar on its bill. Rightly so, as he continues to hone his craft as an impeccable DJ and producer. Michael gives the tremendously talented Danish singer songwriter eee gee a proper Mayer treatment and Kompakt founding member Jörg Burger closes off the festivities with a groovy midtempo chugger that reminisces ‘Blue Lines’ era Massive Attack as much as the late Andy Weatheralls low slung psychedelia.

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eee gee - All Or Nothing (Michael Mayer Remix)

Released on 
04 . 08 . 2014
Alongside remixes from Axel Boman and Thomash.

Dreems & Jagma - We Shall Be Found (Multi Culti's 'In The Gobi'  Dub)

21st Century Soul Boy - Just Let it All Go

We’re happy to cordially invite you to the Regression Session, hosted by eternal Philadelphia scene flag bearers @zillasonacid ! And if you think this sounds awfully lot like a scam, you’re probably right: „Regression Session“ is just a front of their illegal black market operation, trading raw uncut gems on a large scale. Just listen to the opener and title track and you won’t exactly have a strong case for the Zillas selling out, but rough as it is, this thing is capable of destroying any dancefloor it touches. Looking at their recent releases it’s fair to say the Z’s are on quite a run, putting out music on labels like Permanent Vacation, Throne Of Blood, Multi Culti or Ivan Smagghe’s Disques de la Mort. Tunes like the sneaky rough slow burners „Underling“ or „Start Digging“ sound like they could be lifted from the latter’s infamous DJ sets, while the deceptively titled „Cha Cha Cha“ or closer „Casual Observer“ justify the „Acid“ in the artist name. „Shining Snakes Across The Lake“ is what some years might have been called a mid-tempo house roller and probably counts as downtempo these days. Speaking of tempos, the penultimate „Sweet Days Of Discipline“ starts of masquerading as reaaally downtempo, but ends up throwing 155bpm kick drums at you, so better watch out, all you k-hole ravers! Let’s not forget to talk about „bquiet“, which is what you’d call mid-tempo house these days (125bpm) and uses the eternally banging combination of a jacking beat, a polyrhythmic bass line, some lead-synth stabs and talking vocal slices. You can practically smell the sweat. So what’s left to say? What you see is what you get: They are Zillas, and they are on Acid. And they provide a collection of eight tunes that probably each don’t necessarily have a double-digit amount of tracks in their DAW projects, and that’s exactly what makes them so forceful. Join the regression session!

Regression Session

Casual Observer

Zillas On Acid - Casual Observer

Brume [Minimal Groove Concept]

Drayne [Minimal Groove Concept]

Truss [Minimal Groove Concept]

The full length version of Ashley Beedle's 'Cock Happy' mix of Earl Zinger's 'Ghostdancers'.  Gilles Peterson put this in his Top 3 records of 2014 even before it was released and it smashes dancefloors around the globe....limited vinyl 12" is also available here - http://www.juno.co.uk/search/?q%5Btitle%5D%5B%5D=%22ghostdancers+%28ashley+beedle+remixes%29%22&hide_forthcoming=0 we're all Ghostdancers!!

Ghostdancers

Earl Zinger X Ashley Beedle - Ghostdancers (Ashley Beedle's Cock Happy Vocal Remix)

After Sulk Magic’s auspicious debut release, the label returns for its second chapter of left-field cuts. Bird of Paradise curates this one with a similar mind-set to the former; a strong natured collection of tracks which all portray a consciousness of marked ingenuity and a desire to defer from the regular dance-music-model.

Berlin’s Thomas Freudenthal kicks off the record with a portion of hypnotising middle eastern flavoured chug, leading into Kieran Holden’s slow-burning, melodic anthem, ‘3 or 4’.

LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/freudenthal
https://www.facebook.com/freudenthal/

http://sulkmagic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Sulkmagic/
https://soundcloud.com/birdofparadisemusic

TRACKLIST:
1. Freudenthal - Rapax Apicem
2. Kieran Holden - 3 Or Four
3. Clandestino - Simpatico
4. In:State - Spacer
5. daWad & Mokic - Furious

Rapax Apicem

Pre-Order!

Freudenthal - Rapax Apicem [Sulk Magic]

As the project spearheaded by Nicholas Church and Joseph Spencer, Casino Times has been putting out quality productions for close to a decade. Following releases on Needwant, Omena and their own Casino Edits, the duo debuts on Hamburg-based record label Mireia Records. Demonstrating their cunning yet natural and flowing sound over the course of two originals, the package features remixes by Filburt, Rigopolar and Conga Fever.

Leading the string of remixes is Mireia's own Conga Fever. Taking cues from Belgian New Beat while sounding unconditionally modern at the same time, Conga Fever has crafted a bona fide festival anthem. After confidently building up tension and taking his time in the breakdown, the remix manages to release an incredible amount of energy.

Read more: http://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/casino-times-kawai-conga-fever-remix-mireia 
Buy: https://mireiarecords.bandcamp.com/album/rush-kawai

https://soundcloud.com/casino-times
https://soundcloud.com/congafever
https://soundcloud.com/mireiarec

Carlos Varela - Una Palabra (pete ahern mix)

Pete Ahern