Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2021

It’s 2020, the year Pop Ambient turns twenty-one years old, a spritely young adult waltzing out of its teenage joys and tears. Pop Ambient has always stood for a certain classicism and elegance, a kind of beatless music that’s diaphanous and hazy, gossamer and glittering. It’s a music that’s no less inviting for its slow pace and becalmed nature, with a different kind of tension bubbling under the surface. For twenty-one years, KOMPAKT co-founder Wolfgang Voigt has curated a series of peerless compilations that repeatedly find refreshing answers to a simple question – What happens when the dancefloor is empty, and everyone’s home to drift away?

As with many other Pop Ambient compilations, Pop Ambient 2021 offers a welcome platform to contributions from both old friends and new faces. It opens with the gorgeous, slo-mo drift of “Of A Vessel”, from new Kompakt signings Blank Gloss. Sending their music out into the world from their home in Sacramento, this duo makes music that’s featherlight and luscious, the muted chime of a guitar over here, the steady hum of a halatial drone over there; everything in its right place, and nothing overdone. The poise is all. Neozaïre (Tobias Sawitzki) and Seventh World (Juho Hietala aka Blamstrain) are our other two new voices, the latter closing (the CD version of) Pop Ambient 2021 with a long, lambent dreamsong, Neozaïre offering us two gaseous, morphing driftworks, “Vor den Toren Europas” and “In Verschwenderischer Fülle” (CD only), etched across with bell-like arpeggios.

Pop Ambient has always felt like a field for play for the KOMPAKT cognoscenti, and 2021 is no different, with Joachim Spieth collaborating with Pepo Galán on the sidereal visions of “Libration”, while Leandro Fresco teams up with Thore Pfeiffer on the lovely “Abejorro”. Pfeiffer also contributes two lovely solo miniatures of abstract longing. Yui Onodera calls in again, long distance, for their fourth Pop Ambient running, with the refracted, glinting lightscapes of “Cromo 5” and “Monochrome”, while there are also star turns from Max Würden, both solo and in Reich & Würden (with Luis Reichard), and Morgen Wurde, who drops by with the ‘ethereal drama’ of “Mittsommer”.

Pop Ambient gets the balance right: visions and soundscapes, long-distance communications and intimate asides, sweetness and light, drama and dreaming, all wrapped up in floral abstractions – a most beautiful distraction.

Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2021 (Kompakt 430)

🔔 Avant presents: 🔔 
#monthlyhomework
📚🙇
The first chapter of our monthly very random but passionate selection of releases!!!
You will never enjoy homework so much.

BFFT - iOSMIDI6_Droplets / Mutualism
Lol K - The Breeze / Halcyon veil
Lutto Lento - HORNED HEART ft. Katarzyna karpowicz / Haunter records
Kanyon - Kanyon / Towhead Recordings
Audio Bambino - BAM-002
Kompakt - Pop Ambient 2021
A.k.Adrix - Desenhos animados / Principe
Zaliva D - Whisper / SVBKVLT
Nurse3d + BLK SLK - SKULL / tremorstv
MARCOS - CUMBIA PIRATA / HIEDRAH
O.L.I.V.I.A - 99% / AGVA
t0ni - Always / Soul Feeder
Eterna - Fly
Lorenzo Senni - Vandalize Music / warp
Maya Crux - Pretty Face
Radio Red x Abrons arts center - Fiebre de cabina Vol.1
AceMo - Low Pressure / Sonic Messengers
Modulaw & Xavier Stone - Summoning Spirits
DVC refreshments - Hits Only / Arbutus records
Atki2 - Atki2 x Frijsfo dancehall sevens / Frijsfo
Augenwasser - Sleepdancer / Les Disques Bongo Joe

Monthly Homework - December 2020

kompakt

POP AMBIENT (2001 - 2022)

radioeins - Late Night Lounge mit Stephan Karkowsky 1

: Kölsch • Gui Boratto • GAS • Weval • The Field • GusGus • Michael Mayer • WhoMadeWho • John Tejada • Thomas Fehlmann • Superpitcher • Jürgen Paape • Agents Of Time • Rex The Dog • BLOND:ISH • Terranova • The Orb • Robag Wruhme • Matias Aguayo • COMA – :

Kompakt

Kompakt Pop Ambient [ 2001 - 2025 ] - Full serie

Facetten Des Widerstandes

Junge Partisanin

Gustavo Lamas - También

Ulf Lohmann - PCC

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/speicher_131

We’re kicking off the new year in style with a fantastic new double header by RAXON. This Egypt-born, barcelonese powerhouse has left his scent marks all over the place in recent years. He has developed an instantly recognizable sound and that’s no small feat in these times shaped by so much formulaic dullness. “Your Fault” sees our Catalan hot shot in an exuberant disco mood. Mind bending chord progressions foiled with Raxon’s trademark vocal stutters guarantee for wonderfully twisted hands in the air moments. With “Beskar” we’re entering Star Wars nerd territory. Jedipedia says, Beskar is a uniquely resistant iron that develops a wide range of properties - and colors - in the hands of skilled metalsmiths. Alright. Musically speaking, we’re dealing with a stealthy, funky as hell trance-not-trance juggernaut. 2024 is off to a good start!

Speicher 131

Beskar

Raxon - Beskar

Your Fault

Raxon - Your Fault

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

Hot on the heels of his recent “The Super Album”, our favorite seafarer is back with a delicious round of remixes. Frau Blau head honcho KADOSH takes “About Love feat Speakwave” to darker disco territories. Rome’s WHITESQUARE gives “Shifting Basslines feat Chicks on Speed” a powerful 90s progressive house inspired spin. Last but not least, the Las Vegas duo THIRD CULTURE (aka Sian & Sacha Robotti) are taking a swing at “I Love Watching You feat Arnaud Rebotini”, emphazising the noir EBM vibes of the original.

The Super Album (Remixe)

I Love Watching U feat. Arnaud Rebotini ( Third Culture Mix ) 

Captain Mustache - I Love Watching U feat. Arnaud Rebotini (Third Culture Mix)

Shifting Basslines feat. Chicks on Speed ( Whitesquare Mix )

Captain Mustache - Shifting Basslines feat. Chicks on Speed (Whitesquare Mix)

Captain Mustache - About Love (Kadosh Remix) [Kompakt]

Sommersonnenschein - Novisad

Dry-by Donnacha Costello

Works In Progress

Song to the Siren (Take 7)

Priceless Jazz 10: Pharoah Sanders

Astral Traveling

Young Mint - Dog Em All (REMIX) feat Rated R & Roc

10 - Markus Guentner - Pilot

In dieser Sendung beschäftigen wir uns hilft und unterstützt, den Alltag zu bewältigen. Unter anderem mittels dem Schrägformat-Stammtisch, Interviews zu Humor und psychiatrischer Spitex.

Radio Schrägformat: All Tag dur de Alltag

taken from the ep 'regensburg'
released on 'kompakt'

regensburg

Taken from the album "The Barrier Of Solitude".
Music, sounds and solutions by Sebastiano Effe.
Mixed by Davide Saggioro at Wise Mastering Studio.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space.
Photo by Shelby L. Boszor.
This track is meant to be played at high volume. 

"Absolute reality is and always will be unknowable to us" (Leena Krohn, 2016).

Released by Seven Villas in 2020.
sevenvillasvoyage.bandcamp.com

The Barrier Of Solitude

Nobody Is Holding My Hand

B. Joachim Spieth - You Dont Fool Me (Afterife Banbury Beatmix)

WITH

Sound (Live)

The Breeze

Air Held Softly in a Fist

Twice

Oilseed Stone

Oilseed Stone (feat. Coby Sey)

Proud

iOSMIDI6_Droplets

BFTT - iOSMIDI6_Droplets

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/downloads/pop-ambient

It’s 2020, the year Pop Ambient turns twenty-one years old, a spritely young adult waltzing out of its teenage joys and tears. Pop Ambient has always stood for a certain classicism and elegance, a kind of beatless music that’s diaphanous and hazy, gossamer and glittering. It’s a music that’s no less inviting for its slow pace and becalmed nature, with a different kind of tension bubbling under the surface. For twenty-one years, KOMPAKT co-founder Wolfgang Voigt has curated a series of peerless compilations that repeatedly find refreshing answers to a simple question – What happens when the dancefloor is empty, and everyone’s home to drift away?

As with many other Pop Ambient compilations, Pop Ambient 2021 offers a welcome platform to contributions from both old friends and new faces. It opens with the gorgeous, slo-mo drift of “Of A Vessel”, from new Kompakt signings Blank Gloss. Sending their music out into the world from their home in Sacramento, this duo makes music that’s featherlight and luscious, the muted chime of a guitar over here, the steady hum of a halatial drone over there; everything in its right place, and nothing overdone. The poise is all. Neozaïre (Tobias Sawitzki) and Seventh World (Juho Hietala aka Blamstrain) are our other two new voices, the latter closing (the CD version of) Pop Ambient 2021 with a long, lambent dreamsong, Neozaïre offering us two gaseous, morphing driftworks, “Vor den Toren Europas” and “In Verschwenderischer Fülle” (CD only), etched across with bell-like arpeggios.

Pop Ambient has always felt like a field for play for the KOMPAKT cognoscenti, and 2021 is no different, with Joachim Spieth collaborating with Pepo Galán on the sidereal visions of “Libration”, while Leandro Fresco teams up with Thore Pfeiffer on the lovely “Abejorro”. Pfeiffer also contributes two lovely solo miniatures of abstract longing. Yui Onodera calls in again, long distance, for their fourth Pop Ambient running, with the refracted, glinting lightscapes of “Cromo 5” and “Monochrome”, while there are also star turns from Max Würden, both solo and in Reich & Würden (with Luis Reichard), and Morgen Wurde, who drops by with the ‘ethereal drama’ of “Mittsommer”.

Pop Ambient gets the balance right: visions and soundscapes, long-distance communications and intimate asides, sweetness and light, drama and dreaming, all wrapped up in floral abstractions – a most beautiful distraction.

Neozaïre - In Verschwenderischer Fuelle

Reich & Würden - Lens

Morgen Wurde - Mittsommer

Thore Pfeiffer - Grape

Yui Onodera - Cromo 5

Blank Gloss - Of A Vessel

Buy: https://kompakt.fm/releases/earquake_1991_2x12

To celebrate the first anniversary, a limited double vinyl series is now starting. With each release one EARQUAKE year is honoured with a kind of "Best Of". For the loyal vinyl fans and all those who want to become one. The first strike, the double 12inch “EARQUAKE 1991“ with a total of 7 tracks, includes "Love Inc.: Trance Atlantic XS" and "Mike Ink: Dialogue E.P." - two absolute cult classics of the early nine-zero-nine and three-zero-three acid-hysteria era. As a kind of "original sound commentary" on the music of that time, there is also a new interpretation of the interview-based art piece "Wolfgang Voigt - Du musst nichts Sagen", which is combined with a Wolfgang Voigt hit that has been out of print for a long time and which the connoisseur will immediately recognize. 

This piece is only available on the vinyl version of “EARQUAKE 1991“! 

“EARQUAKE 1991“ is available as double vinyl and as digital download.

PROFAN PREMIERE: Mike Ink - Diagram (Earquake 1991)

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