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DOWNLOAD: Osborne - Daylight (Pyjama Mix by Isolee)
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We love it when labels fall in love with each other—it’s so sweet! Ghostly have professed their adoration for German dance imprint Playhouse over on their blog, and posted a dope minimal remix of Ghostly artist Osborne by Playhouse artist Isolee. It really brings the two labels together: Osborne is totally characteristic of Ghostly’s hypnotic electro sound and feel, where as Isolee brings some more Euro dance sensibilities to the track. Highly recommended to start your week off right.
Sounds like: Plaid, Aphex Twin
Download: Osborne - Daylight (Pyjama Mix by Isolee)
Playhouse at the Ghostly RCRD LBL blog
Speaking of Ghostly, in case you missed it last week, we have a few exclusive tracks from their upcoming Adult Swim compilation, Ghostly Swim. We’re really feeling The Chap, so make sure to crank it.
Download: Michna - Triple Chrome Dipped (12" Version)
Stream: The Chap - Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley
DOWNLOAD: Cut Copy - Joakim Remix
We’ve posted a bunch of Cut Copy tidbits over the past few weeks in conjunction with our partner label Modular, but this might be one of the coolest: a brand spanking new Joakim remix of “Hearts in Fire”, the best Cut Copy single since, well, the last Cut Copy single. You’d think that a band this consistent wouldn’t really need remixes, but Joakim takes "Hearts on Fire" to the very edge of minial disco cool. Check it out…
STREAM: Autechre - Altibzz
The guys at the Warp blog just made a mammoth post about Autechre, the English electronic duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, who apparently have such devoted fans that the Warp online music store Bleep almost crashed when their last release came out! Anyway, the band will be doing a live webcast on their site (http://www.autechre.ws) tomorrow, Feb 23 at 8:00 PM GMT. It will be a full set of miminal techno goodness, so be sure to tune in. The Warp dudes also posted all Autechre's new tour dates, AND a stream of their dreamy tune Altibzz. Here you go…
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: The Cook Sisters - After School
Work is sucks and boring. Let's go somewhere, yeah? Come on. How about mmm heaven? Okay. Here's the Cook Sisters. Angel people. Reincarnated Nicos half-asleep and masquerading as three girls - goofball, brain and wiseass. Kind of an Alvin and the Chipmunks dynamic, huh? And there they are, bouncing around Brooklyn, making trouble, all that.
Anyway this song "After School" ... it's this perfectly lazy little daydream. Lazier even than these paragraphs. "About our mom's lover in Korea, and the classical music songs they would put on the jukebox," one of them told me. Put it on and drink wine with me all night. Haven't we earned a little break, after all?
STREAM: Richard H. Kirk - Reality Net
The Warp RCRD LBL blog have started a weekly installment called Time Warp, where they release loads of classic throwback jams from their catalog. They’re inaugurating the column with a track from minimal electro pioneer and ex-Cabaret Voltaire member Richard H. Kirk. Stream his 1994 track “Reality Net” below.
FEATURED: Cobblestone Jazz
Cobblestone Jazz, a Canadian electro-lounge band with a decidedly awesome name, sound like what Booka Shade would be if they listened to more Herbie Hancock and less Orb. Their minimal techno stylings would sound right at home in some post modern German wine bar, but manage to stay away from the cheese factor and make some compelling electronica. Cobblestone Jazz's song "What You Want" is MP3 of the day on Spinner.com, so click the link and peruse at your leisure.
CHECK IT: WELCOME KOMPAKT (And download a song while you are at it)
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To kick things off on their RCRD LBL blog, Kompakt co-founder (and awesome musician ) Michael Mayer posted a quick bit on the venerable German label, which is a rather impressive feat considering he distilled the history of over three hundred or so 12"s, albums, singles, double disc compilations and a whole lot of other rad stuff into about 100 words. Then he posted up an excellent song from what is sure to be a mainstay on a lot of folks' year-end lists, the Fields' From Here We Go Sublime. Swing by their blog, grab the song and check out the selection of cuts, like Mr. Mayers's "Love Food", now streaming on their radio widget—and don't forget to say "danke!"
CHECK IT: Welcome Ghostly
We'd like to take a moment to introduce you to one of our partner labels, Ghostly International. They are a label with fantastic taste (obvs, that's why we wanted to partner with them) and, as we've discovered from their blog, a tremendous work ethic. Expect a RCRD LBL-exclusive from them very time soon, but for now, be sure to check out the link they provided to a killer DJ set by Tim Goldsworthy from their joint Halloween party with the DFA. It's always great to see friends working together, especially when those friends all happen to put out awesome records.
KILN TIME
Dusker, the latest from Michigan trio (and Ghostly artist) KILN, infuses the entire concept of electronic composition with an almost impossible organic sense, its lush songs packed with flourishes that appear and disappear, cycling, spilling and disintegrating across the stereo field. Entertainment Weekly, after choosing Dusker as one of its "Weekly Picks" and stamping it with a respectable "A-" went on to note that "...the beats flutter and fidget and ultimately hit as hard as anything a night club have to offer...guitars and keyboards echo and distort until they are barely distinguishable from the soothing whole..." and PAPERTHINWALLS observes KILN "...nodding to multiple genres without bowing to any, marrying digital and meatworld sounds so adroitly on Dusker that identifying sources is both irresistible and impossible..." [ full review here ]. Needless to say we are proud to be releasing an album of such subtle, hypnotic beauty. A DRM-free download of Dusker is available at the The Ghostly Store.
Welcome to the Kompakt blog!
Well, why hello there and welcome to KOMPAKT's first 'official' place on the world-wide web where you'll be able to get in one place music, recipes, stories and news about what is making us tick... we've been asked by the fine folks at RCRD LBL to let you know a bit about ourselves so here's an official blurb we have about KOMPAKT which should explain what we do here.
"Believe it or not it¹s almost 15 years since Kompakt emerged as a small record store in Cologne, Germany, uniting a collective of local musicians that included co-founders Jurgen Paape, Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink, GAS, Wasserman to name a few), his brother Reinhard Voigt and DJ/producer Michael Mayer. Today, Kompakt remains a community-driven business, expansion has allowed the record store to offer arguably the world¹s largest selection of electronic music, a distribution centre that houses over 60 exclusive record labels and over 200 others, booking agency, recording studios, the online shop KOMPAKT-MP3 and of course our Kompakt in-house record labels. Oh, and there's a kitchen, too."
Thank you for having us!
-Michael Mayer, Kompakt
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