Kompakt : etichetta tedesca fondata da Wolfang Voigt , Michael Mayer e Jürgen Paape , attiva dal 1998 e divenuta presto leader sul mercato musicale grazie a numerose release di qualità. KLIMEK Milk & Honey A1: Milk B1: Honey [Kompakt – KOM 61] Il polacco, ma tedesco d'adozione residente in quel di Francoforte sul Meno, Sebastian Meissner , compositore, sound designer e, [...]

I'm very excited to announce that Pop Ambient 2010 is out on January 18th, 2010 on Kompakt which will mark the 10th release in my favorite compilation series of all time. Here is one song from each year, I hope it relaxes you and you end up finding a few new favorite ambient songs. [RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Permalink | Comment On This Post (9) | Tweet This Post | [...]
Pic: Pole Of Inaccessibility Two of Kompakt's time served Pop Ambient contributors have just come up with new LP's. Beautiful they are. Klimek 's Movies Is Magic is the film score to a film that will never exist. While Markus Guentner 's Doppelgaenger tackles ambient drone in the most inspiring of ways. Both essential ambient pieces. Klimek - Tears Of Happiness ( buy ) Markus Guentner [...]
>> Last.FM here has an exclusive on the new Frightened Rabbit video for the wonderful and romantic b-side "Set You Free." But we're embedding it above because, well, you're already here, aren't you? The song was the flip to the Selkirk, Scotland-based quartet's "Head Rolls Off," which was issued March 3. "Set You Free" is apparently a cover by a '90s club music act N-Trance , which we did not know until reading FR's MySpace bulletin. Further, the video for "Set You Free" apparently is a bit of an homage to the original video. We [...]

I escaped last week for a couple of days on the beach. Eventhough I'm against tanning and sunbathing, those days at the beach were fortifying and refreshing. I spent most of my days in quiet reflection, thinking of everrything and nothing, walking barefoot wherever I went, feeling the combination of wood, sand, rock and grass beneath my feet was nothing short of exhilirating. When diving into the sea I was also [...]

Tagged : deep , german , micro house , minimal techno So, we're back from Prague, it was a lovely trip and we have got a very special CD from an old and out of this world street musician, which will hopefully be reviewed here soon, but till then we're gonna continue with some minimal dance stuff. Another keyplayer of the European dance scene is German artist Markus Guentner who recently released "Lovely Society" on Matthias Schaffhauser 's Ware label . [...]
One thing I like about Russian dexes, sometimes you come across one with impeccable taste in ambient music. Like this one . There's a LOT of really, really good ambient stuff on this dex . The crown jewel for me is this fantastic track by Aidan Baker called " Post Lapse ." It starts out with drums and guitar, and then both slowly dissolve away to a pulsing ambient track... then finally the pulsing becomes a dull throb until even that fades away... fantastic track... [...]