Kompakt

Infobox record label
name = Kompakt Records


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founded = 1998
founder = Wolfgang Voigt
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genre = Electronic music, Microhouse, Minimal techno
country = Germany
location = Cologne
url = http://www.kompakt-net.com/

Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno, and are known for their "Total" compilation series, now in its ninth installment.

According to Grooves magazine, "Kompakt’s chief aesthetic objective has always been the perfect marriage of ambient texture and linear 4x4 structure—blending deep, granular sound design with the 4-bar rhythmic intensity and patterning that makes house and techno so club-effective". [Kiran Sande: [http://www.groovesmag.com/review_detail.php?id=00000413 Review of Pop Ambient 2007 compilation] . Groovesmag.com]

British music critic Simon Reynolds has characterized Kompakt as the "label that's contributed more than any other to Germany's dominance of electronic dance music this decade [the 2000s] ". [Simon Reynolds: [http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2008/06/gas-directors-cut-of-frieze-feature-may.html "GAS"] June 13, 2008. Expanded version of: "Into the Wild", feature in , May, 2008]

Notable producers of the label include Superpitcher, Michael Mayer, Justus Köhncke and Jürgen Paape. In recent years, Kompakt has been better known for bringing a trance sound into minimal techno.Fact|date=August 2008

Techno & electronic artists, such as The Orb, Thomas Fehlmann, The Field, Jonas Bering, Aril Brikha and others have released material on Kompakt.

Kompakt also runs an online music market with a weekly newsletter, providing a large amount of techno and other electronic forms of music digitally and through mailorder.

For many critics the late, lamented Profan (a Kompakt spin-off imprint) was at the cutting edge of '90s electronica. ["Kompakt Disk", Andrez Bergen. "Daily Yomiuri", July 2005.]

elected Releases

Total Series

* Total 1 (1999)
* Total 2 (2000)
* Total 3 (2001)
* Total 4 (2002)
* Total 5 (2003)
* Total 6 (2005)
* Total 7 (2006)
* Total 8 (2007)
* Total 9 (2008)

Pop Ambient

* Pop Ambient 2001
* Pop Ambient 2002
* Pop Ambient 2003
* Pop Ambient 2004
* Pop Ambient 2005
* Pop Ambient 2006
* Pop Ambient 2007
* Pop Ambient 2008

Other Releases

* Michael Mayer - Immer (2002)
* Superpitcher - Today (2005)
* The Orb - Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt (2005)
* Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (2007)
* The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (2007)

ee also

* List of record labels
* List of electronic music record labels

External links

* [http://www.kompakt-net.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.kompakt-mp3.net/ Kompakt MP3 store]
* [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16727-total-6 Pitchfork Media review of Total 6 compilation]
* [http://www.discogs.com/label/Kompakt Kompakt] at Discogs

References