POP AMBIENT - our longest-running compilation series after Total - sees a new instalment for 2017, featuring exclusive material from acclaimed genre veterans and series newcomers JENS-UWE BEYER, YUI ONODERA & SCANNER, MAX WÜRDEN, LEANDRO FRESCO, THORE PFEIFFER, KENNETH JAMES GIBSON and SOULSAVERS remixed by WOLFGANG VOIGT.

Available Now:
https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/popambient2017SD

Scanner + Yui Onodera - Locus Solus

John passed away on Sunday, April 12, 2020. He was always effusive about his love for this community and all of you who supported him. I will be maintaining his account and any proceeds from his music will be donated to the Jazz Foundation of America. If anyone is interested in learning more about his life, his obituary is posted here: https://legcy.co/3ekapEJ   Thank you all!  — Loren Gilmore

From Chicago, lifetime striving to play jazz piano, involved in electronic music since getting ARP 2600 in 70's. More recently also drawn to ambient music. Lucky to be on the northern California coast playing steady piano gigs and now making soundscapes of this time and place.

Member of the Rumourtone Ambient Collective: @rumourtone

Label, booking agency & online record shop

Demo submission: 
We receive a lot of demos every day. Please understand that we are unable to listen to everything. Send your private soundcloud link to: label@kompakt.fm.

☥ ╳I make a journey. You make a journey. We make a journey together╳☥ 
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

Yui Onodera is a Tokyo-based composer, sound artist and new media artist whose works explore the relation between musical forms, architectural acoustics and spatial awareness. He has a distinctive figure in the fields of experimental ambient/electro-acoustic music involving delicate hybrids of digital technology and acoustic instrumentation, working across the spheres of composition and installation work. His works are widely published internationally, he has released numerous works on esteemed labels like KOMPAKT, ROOM40 and more. His work has separately appeared on compilations by Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto "Micro Ambient Music" etc. He has also produced collaboration works with artists from every imaginable genre: sound artists Francisco Lopez, Stephen Vitiello, musician/visual artist Robert Lippok, composer Scanner, and Takashi Kokubo.

1/2 of ˙˚ʚ DJスカイハイ斉藤 ɞ˚˙  (with karuto0101)

Label head of Sad Disco / DIW / Disk Union

https://diskunion.net/portal/ct/list/0/0/126778

Co-founder of Siren for Charlotte 

https://eneiongaku.bandcamp.com

編著『ニューエイジ・ミュージック・ディスクガイド』(2020, DU BOOKS)

https://twitter.com/telepath_yukari