Headspace

Coral

Hazel

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Hello Everybody,

In recent years, the introductory texts for the Pop Ambient compilation series, which is released every year on Kompakt as the last release before the Christmas break, often began with the sentence "Every year again...".

“Every year again”, a quiet, almost unnoticed maxim of self-evidentness. Because this is already the 25th issue to be published this year.

25 years in increasingly fast-moving times in the even faster-moving music business is an eternity that doesn't just feel like it. It is all the more remarkable how I, as someone who is always restless and often driven by this fast pace himself, pleasantly almost haven’t realised how - in pop-ambient contexts - time does not pass (or passes differently) in the best sense.

When compiling the 25th edition I was asked, among other things, what it was like that I was still doing this and whether I had a favorite track. In the spirit of bringing all the tracks together I don't have a favorite track, or all of them. But I have a favorite part (moment) that I played. In this case it was a broad chord in a change of key at minute 2:55 in the piece Circles by Max Würden. A moment of majesty and familiarity that, at that moment, contains the entire Pop Ambient cosmos, that just works and doesn't explain anything - and I said: “...that's the reason why I'm still doing this.. .”

Pop Ambient is a statement without demands. Is promise without expectation. Is a path without a destination.         Every year again.

Wolfgang Voigt, October 2024

As always, the indispensable final mastering by Jörg Burger ensures that everything is brought together and the sound is fine-tuned.

And like every year, the 25th edition is of course wrapped in an abstract, floral magic creation by Veronika Unland. Over the years, the grace of her imagery has increasingly merged with the musical aura to form an unmistakable magical symbiosis.  In addition to the official vinyl and CD edition, there will be a limited edition of 100 pieces in transparent vinyl - including a hand-signed fine art print by Veronika Unland, available exclusively at Kompakt Mailorder.

Pop Ambient 2025

In Defense Of Symbolic Value 1

Jens-Uwe Beyer - In Defense Of Symbolic Value 1

Juggling Dualities

Solace

Sitting on the Moon

Wicked Game

New Moon

Observe

1979

Radox

To Win Her Love / The Gamble Room

The Gamble Room

Tranquilizer

Cherry Blue

Measuring Ruins

Blue Rags, Raging Wind / Traces in the window

Blue Rags, Raging Wind (Kelly Moran Remix) [feat. Amigone]

Elaenia

Precursor

Arranged and Mixed by DJ Robert Arnadio
Sampling and Part-Composed by DJ Robert Arnadio

Odyssey to Agmona  (Extended Score Version)

winter it seems

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I AM LEILA
I MAKE NOISE

LIKE WEATHER (REPHLEX)

COURTESY OF CHOICE (XL)

BLOOD LOOMS AND BLOOMS (WARP)

U&I (WARP)

The Gamble Room

iamleila

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