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The Original Soundtrack brings the news on this year’s big Kompakt party!
Once a year the bells of the cathedral in Cologne ring audibly louder and in 4/4-beat, it’s always at the time when KOMPAKT invites to the big rush. August 26th, the KOMPAKT family arranges the traditional Fridayparty in the course of the exciting c/o […]

Upcoming Kompakt releases

Once again thanks to the I Love Music forum:
JUNE 2005
06.06.2005 KOM 121 KOMFORT 12″ THE ORB
13.06.2005 KOM EX 29 SPEICHER 29 12″ REINHARD VOIGT / ALTER EGO
27.06.2005 KOM CD 41 SOLOMILLO CDFERENC
27.06.2005 KOM 120 SOLOMILLO LP2 FERENC
AUGUST 2005
15.08.2005 KOM CD 42 VARIOUS ARTISTS CD TOTAL 6
REINHARD VOIGT´S ROBSON PONTE WITH REMIXES BY ALTER EGO AND […]

Kirk’s Hall Of Fame

Kirk Degiorgio used to have a great Hall Of Fame on his website listing dozens of great jazz, funk and soul records with interesting and informative reviews. I used these pages a lot last year when i was getting interested in jazz music and bought several CD’s based on the reviews here. Unfortunatly that’s a […]

Kraftwerk coming again?!

According to Rebelbass, Kraftwerk will be coming to The Netherlands again this year!!! On july 1 they will be playing at the 013 venue in Tilburg, one day after their festival gig in Belgium. Pre-sale will be starting on april 9.
Their gig in Amsterdam last year was one of the best things i ever saw. […]

Techno Rebels

Dan’s Techno Rebels blog got a redesign recently after selling through the first edition of Techno Rebels, the book (congrats!!). Not only does the blog sport a new design, there’s also new content being posted regularly, including mp3 samples. Dan’s a great writer with a very good taste in music, so i’m happy with his […]

Berlin day 2

Our second day, and only full day unfortunatly, started pretty rough because some noisy neighbours woke us up by starting to yell at each other while preparing food. I way lying down with a headache trying to get some sleep, but the floating on my huge air mattress was causing a kind of sea sickness. […]

Kreuscht & Fleuscht

My German is a bit rusty, but from this news bit on Dominik Eulberg’s home page, it looks like he’s doing a mix-CD on Kompakt to be released in June:
Ausserdem laufen gerade die Vorbereitungen für Dominik Eulbergs Mix-CD “Kreuscht & Fleuscht” auf Hochtouren, die dann ab Juni über Kompakt erscheint…
In fact, it looks like […]

Berlin day 1

OK, so i promised to write a report on my little trip to Berlin with John last week. I can hardly believe it’s already a week ago when we arrived there early in the evening after a long car trip with lots of rain and traffic jams. We were staying in Kreuzberg at Mad Max’s […]

KOMPAKT-MP3

So here it is finally: the Kompakt-MP3 shop! I immediately bought a bunch of “records”:

Mikkel Metal - Dorant/Kaluga
DJ Koze - Late Check Out
DJ Koze/Gebr. Teichmann - Speicher 25
The MFA - The Difference It Makes

All this for € 10.44. Pricing is standard, slightly above average: € 1.29 per track and € 9.99 for an album, but […]

Berlin trip

The trip to Berlin was amazing!! Got back yesterday in the evening, but started to work already today so i’m feeling a bit sleepy after three really busy days. I’ll try to get some rest now, but here’s already a few pictures from saturday. More will be coming soon…