Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/total_20

Two decades. Twenty years. Twenty compilations. Over 400 tracks. Over two days of total playing time and countless coloured dots. If someone would have told us in 1999, when we put together TOTAL 1 that this would turn into one of the longest standing compilation series in techno world we would have laughed out loud. But here we are – in the year 2020 which will probably go down in history as the most difficult period ever for club culture. But we won’t stop doing what we’re doing. Music is our oxygen. We’ll dance together soon again.

The TOTAL series has always been like KOMPAKT’s yearbook and to say it with the late Frank Sinatra: It was a very good year. Our family of artists delivered a strong heterogeneous mix of uplifting sounds, from the lush reveries of ROBAG WRUHME and SOELA to the stark primetime bangers of MARC ROMBOY or ANNA & KITTIN and everything in between. Notable new entries to our crew are the Londoner KIWI with his wonderfully careless “Hello Echo” that picks up the camp disco vibes Justus Köhncke made a staple in our repertoire. Amsterdam’s DAVID DOUGLAS delivers an appetizer for a full course meal. His quirky pop approach sits comfortably between fellow dutchmen WEVAL’s abstract beats and AGENTS OF TIME’s opulent Italo Disco. YOTAM AVNI blends Detroit techno with new age jazz that reminisces the sound of ECM artists like Jan Garbarek or John Surman. The man with the hat, KÖLSCH also picks up jazzier notes in his very own big room style. Youngblood JONATHAN KASPAR appears twice, fortifying his status as one of the hottest beat smiths of our hometown Cologne. TOTAL wouldn’t be TOTAL without our permanent staff present in full force. As per tradition, KOMPAKT’s founding fathers, VOIGT & VOIGT, JÜRGEN PAAPE, JÖRG BURGER, MICHAEL MAYER as well as our Berlin outpost SASCHA FUNKE all deliver exclusive gems that also feature on Total 20’s double vinyl edition.

May TOTAL 20 become your trustworthy companion in these uncertain times.

Various Artists - Total 20 (Kompakt 420)

Kompakt - Total 1 - 23

KOMPAKT Total [1-24]

Dixon b2b Âme - 2

Reinhard Voigt - Zu Dicht Dran (DJ Koze Mix)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/kompilation_2xlp

How do you define an artist who has never performed live, nor DJ’ed, nor ever had his photograph published and has never partaken in an interview? By the music of course. Jürgen Paape has proven this time and time again. How? Listen. Here. Right. Now. Co-owner of Kompakt. The house’s most elusive member remains the uncompromised, untainted shining star. He, who has launched the label with its very first release “Triumph“, Jürgen Paape has left a legacy of music that is a true core of the sound which Kompakt’s foundation is built on.

We celebrate Jürgen Paape with “Kompilation”. A well deserved opportunity to hear Jürgen Paape for fans and newcomers – revived and remastered and for the very first time on double vinyl – in a way that it plays through like a full length album. Some of the biggest moments of Kompakt over a three decade history are here; the chorus of “So Weit Wie Noch Nie” remains timeless – there to send shivers of pleasure down your spine as we feel at the end of exhaustive end of a night. “Take That” is an anthem for the still to be built rock stadiums of tomorrow. It’s a bonafide hit that put him in the charts in Australia and Italy. – “Come Into My Life” remains undeniably one of Kompakt’s catchiest pop tracks ever. “So Wird Die Zeit Gemacht” – builds on Paape’s signature sound with the spirit and vitality of classic house and a truly demented vocal hook. Then there’s the unique Schaffel quirkiness of “Ofterschwang” and so many other hits Jürgen Paape has delivered over the years. Well, it’s Paape!

Kompilation

Jürgen Paape - How Great Thou Art

Get Physical Music Presents: Body Language, Vol. 17 by WhoMadeWho

Trilogy (feat. Sabota)

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/how-steve-rachmad-brought-detroit-techno-to-amsterdam

Nitin - Dubbed Out (Parallel 9 Version by Steve Rachmad)

http://www.mixmag.net/read/eagles-butterflies-premieres

Finally 'Shinto' gets an official release and we can see this one working-up any dancefloor that it graces. 

The frisky riffs are the main crux of the track but once you factor in tribal percussion and drops that roll gleefully in-and-out of focus, you've got a track fit for King Dixon.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Eagles & Butterflies 'Shinto'

Jakes Forbes was a former senior editor at Tokyopop and the author of several editorials on the manga industry and scanlation.

Excerpt Of Interview With Jake Forbes by Meredith Gilbert

Original tracks : https://youtu.be/9bDt8p90qTA , https://youtu.be/O-XR29czACc

Dettinger - Blond & Dettinger - Infarkt (V.K. mashup)

Dual

Ready2Go

Kompakt Total 1

Dicht Dran

Various Artists - Kompakt Total 1 - p&c 1999

Salz - 2.1

Dirty Talk (feat. Donna McGhee)

Dirty Talk (feat. Donna McGhee) (Club Version)

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Spektrum 2

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Premiere: Skatman - Neo [TAU]

It’s been a year since we unveiled the first Spektrum compilation on TAU, now we’re back with the second bumper installment featuring 16 very special cuts from an array of artists, friends and family connected to TAU, all of whom embody the label’s emotive, forward-thinking ethos. Since TAU launched, it has established a strong identity focused on delivering emotion to the dance floor through compelling, often hypnotic, productions that incorporate elements of new wave, house and techno to present a distinct audio aesthetic. The Adana Twins have assembled a talented collective of artists around the label, each one bringing their own voice to the platform and elevating the energy of dance floors across the world...

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Tape, Digital, Stream

TAU016 | Biesmans - Wild Wild World

TAU016 | Ruede Hagelstein - Aschera

TAU016 | Radeckt - Ways Of Evolution

«Flora» is out now as a part of @tautautauofficial «Spektrum 2» compilation by Adana Twins.
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«Goom Gum’s ‘Flora’ marks the halfway point for the release, eight tracks deep, eight more to go. This one makes use of a hypnotic vocal clip and an entrancing melody to really get your pulse racing. Adrenaline will be pumping and emotions running high as Goom Gum’s track encourages you to let loose and be absorbed by its mystical flow...»
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Available via Beatport, Spotify, and on double audio tape: bit.ly/Tau016

Buy at Beatport

Goom Gum - Flora [TAU]

A label-defining masterpiece, Jürgen Paape's aptly titled "Triumph" is not only one of the best records ever put out by Kompakt, but also the first one. For Record Store Day 2013, we decided to polish up the old master tapes and re-release this indispensable floor classic to fresh ears, giving it the overhaul it so clearly deserves. Also features a new "The Best Of Mike Ink Is Dead Mix" not included in the original release! Out on April 20th, this record will be available only on vinyl, only in record stores and only on Record Store Day... keep the fire burning!

More info: www.kompakt.fm/artists/juergen_paape

EXCERPT: Jürgen Paape - Triumph 1

Robag Wruhme - Calma Calma (Total 20)

Soela - White Becomes Black (Total 20)

Michael Mayer - Agita (Total 20)

Jürgen Paape - Vox Acris (Total 20)

David Douglas - Lose Control (Total 20)

Jonathan Kaspar - Licht (Total 20)

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