I Saw You

I Saw You (Original Mix)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/total_21

TOTAL turns 21 this year, and Kompakt’s venerable compilation series couldn’t have asked for a more auspicious coming-of-age collection. If TOTAL 20 was consolidation against the odds, the Kompakt crew producing for a dreamt-of dancefloor in an uncertain future, then TOTAL 21 feels abuzz and alive with possibilities. Significantly, it’s the first TOTAL in some time that’s streamlined down to a single disc; this makes TOTAL 21 even punchier than usual, a joyous, reflective, and always thrilling 75-minute audio scan of the world according to Kompakt.

As with every instalment of TOTAL, there’s a deft balancing here of Kompakt regulars and new blood. Of the latter, there’s a first appearance by KOLLMORGEN, remixed by PATRICE BÄUMEL into an astral torch song; Amsterdam’s NICKY ELISABETH, offering up ROMAN FLÜGEL’s pulsating, arpeggiated remix of “Celeste”; and CAPTAIN MUSTACHE swoops down into view, PLAY PAUL in tow, with the dream-like electro lift-off that is “Everything”. JONATHAN KASPAR also drops by with a new track, “Von Draussen”, a stealthy and lethal floor-hugger with prowling bass.

Elsewhere, there’s the lead track to MICHAEL MAYER’s astonishing recent EP, “Brainwave Technology”, which not-so-gently spears the tech-futurist babble of AI, transhumanism and posthumanism, soundtracked by one of Mayer’s typically lush, glimmering soundscapes. JOHN TEJADA reaches back to the heyday of glitch and dub techno with the gorgeous “Spectral Progressions”, while the brothers VOIGT & VOIGT, on “Nicht Mein Job”, seem reinvigorated by the interwoven patterns and funky minimalism of the Profan days. Not to be outdone, JÜRGEN PAAPE kicks TOTAL 21 with “La Guittara Romantica”, a chiming and lilting lullaby for woozy late-night reflection.

Throughout, it feels as though Kompakt are taking a moment to both breathe in the dust of the past and look forward to a bright future. Perhaps that’s why, on “Fasson”, SASCHA FUNKE seems so confident, with pinprick melodies bouncing around a hall of audio mirrors, or why THE BIONAUT returns with “Blue Sky Motor Lodge”, a song so moistly melancholy, so enduringly lovely, it’ll make you weep tears of joy. ROBAG WRUHME gets a little delirious on the ticking, twisting “No”, and then GUI BORATTO mops everything up with the bubbling, bumping glam-stomp “Wake Up”.

That’s not all – spring for the digital and/or vinyl edition and you’ll get a new cut, “Happy”, from MICHAEL MAYER, and MARC ROMBOY & C.A.R.’s “I Am A Dancer”. But however you choose to play it, now TOTAL’s turned 21, it’s your duty to throw it the celebration to end all celebrations. Let the party begin, and don’t forget to bring a party favor…

Gui Boratto - Wake Up

Mobilee Back to Back Vol. 7 - Presented By Rodriguez Jr.

Scenario (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)

Tech House gem from Dominik Eulberg remixed by Rodriguez Jr released this month. 

Dominik Eulberg - Daten-Übertragungs-Küsschen (Rodriguez Jr.mix)

Searching (Shonky Remix)

The debut EP from Non-Functional Harmony, featuring two tracks of techno, one of blissed-out pre-sunrise chillout, and concluding with a laid back pop-house collaboration with FABRIK's Hayley Trower.

Introducing NFH

18 Frames

Vertigo / Memento

Vertigo

Available now: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/Total17SD

Inaugurated in the summer of 1999, our Total compilation series happens to be only slightly older than the 21st century itself – which makes TOTAL 17 the last instalment before the series hits adulthood. And indeed, the Total class of 2017 exudes a playful abundance few other compilations can match after 15+ years: label veterans and newcomers such as SUPERPITCHER, WEVAL, TOBIAS THOMAS & MICHAEL MAYER, CHRIS KLOPFER, JUERGEN PAAPE, VOIGT & VOIGT, MAX SCHOLPP and NU U ORCHESTRA provide some of the catchiest material the series has seen to date.

Patrice Bäumel - Sorcery

The End

The End (Mollono.Bass Remix)

Release Date Album: June 7, 2019
GET IT HERE: pampa-records.lnk.to/RobagWruhme_VenqTolep
OR HERE: www.pamparecords.com/products/pampa…014-venq-tolep
Format: Limited Vinyl (2xLP + 7inch + mp3 Download) / CD

Title track ´Venq Tolep´: robagwruhme.lnk.to/VenqTolep
Second single ´Nata Alma´: pampa-records.lnk.to/nataalma

From Robag Wruhme’s first releases on Freude am Tanzen you can already find it: this light-footed rhythm. Like a Huckleberry Finn, hopping through the world on one leg – a native alien, a familiar stranger. A cosmonaut, floating in weightless orbits from capsule to capsule. With playful lightheartedness, Wruhme takes synthetic sounds and sampled noises, cuts them to fit, and turns them into beats without his music ever sounding pieced together: every single percussive sound is a compact unit, always bursting with melody, or at least pointing the way towards it. For Venq Tolep, his first album-length release on Pampa Records in eight years, this is exactly where Robag Wruhme chooses to dig deeper, expanding the space of these elements. He finds beats inside the beats, opens them up even further, discovers hooklines and harmonies and feels where he can ultimately dispense with rhythms entirely.

More Infos: www.pamparecords.com
(C) Pampa Records 2019

Venq Tolep

Robag Wruhme - IKLAHX

Ambient techno, glitchy electronic soundscapes, subterranean bass.

Shifting organic textures, imperfect beauty.

'fashions grace and gossamer out of the nothingness'
-Acid Ted

'Gorgeous work'
-Tome to the Weather Machine

‘no matter what genre or track you are listening to from N.F.H. you are fully immersed, fully engaged, feeling every note because N.F.H. is’
‘transparent and transcendent'
-ADSR Collective

‘a zone of tranquility with the worries of everyday life dissolved by erosion in miniature’
-Queen City Sounds and Art