Kompakt Pop Ambient [ 2001 - 2025 ] - Full serie

Ulf Lohmann - PCC

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2024_lp_dl

Dear gourmets of audio-aesthetic rapture, dear sound poets, please welcome - Pop Ambient 2024. Twenty-four. Twenty-four can be divided by two, four, six, eight, twelve and itself. If something can be divided by itself, it is not really divisible. Truthfulness knows no formulas. Beauty knows no formulas. Beauty saves the world for no reason whatsoever. “Beauty is a promise that beyond mediocrity there is something where calmness reigns. Beauty calms the nerves. Beauty is not a good intention but a fact. Beauty is provocation, rigor, responsibility. And beauty has its price”.

In addition to the official version of Pop Ambient 2024, there will be an art/music edition limited to 10 pieces, consisting of an exclusive mini bonus album (vinyl dubplate) from Blank Gloss, in combination with 10 individual fine art print artworks by Veronika Unland. The edition will be available via kompakt.fm/art exclusively on November 23rd, 2023.

Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome, Pop Ambient 2024

Pop Ambient 2024

Octarine

Mikkel Metal - Octarine

DJ Koze - Nymphe Und Schäfer

Orboretum: The Orb Collection

Dilmun

Andrew Thomas - I Am Here Where Are You (Dj Lapë Mix)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2025_lp_dl

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

Mirage

Pass Into Silence - Mirage

10 Nuage III/Sylvain Chauveau

Sommersonnenschein - Novisad

DJ Koze - Bodenweich

Gas, Pop

The elder statesman of electronic music steps into the RA hotseat for this week's podcast.

RA.202 Thomas Fehlmann

Dry-by Donnacha Costello

Markus Guentner - Express Yourself

Mikkel Metal aka Mikkel Meldgaard from Copenhagen is know for a personal blend of dub, electronica and minimal techno. 
Since 2000 he has released on various labels, most notably danish Echocord and Kompakt. The releases on Echocord are centered around the dub element while on Kompakt the sound is more melodic and techno-inspired.

Kompakt Pop Ambient [ 2001 - 2025 ] - Full serie

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