Various
Kompakt 500

In our fast-paced business, the 500 mark is rarely reached, so we want to celebrate it with a lavish 5LP box set. In a democratic process, we have selected 50 pearls from the thousands of tracks released over the last 33 1/3 years and pressed them onto 5 brightly coloured vinyl. Alongside many Kompakt evergreens, there are also some real rarities from the early ‘Kompakt Sound of Cologne’, which have been lovingly remastered here to shine in new splendour.

The box also contains a 144-page book that tells the story of Kompakt from 1993 to today with detailed texts and images. In addition to the manifold musical and graphic achievements of Kompakt, the multidisciplinary links to the visual arts are also highlighted here.

The Bonus Picture Disc opens with the symbolic tolling of 500 bass drums, followed by 50 locked grooves from the 5 Kompakt founders, looping into infinity at 133 1/3 BPM, and the ‘33 1/3 Years Loop Opera’ – in which the loops are combined into one track that, in its reduced essence, is more than the sum of its individual parts. The magic of groovy loop minimalism and the ‘art of omission’ are once again brought to the proverbial point.

The last one turns off the bass drum.

Blue Disc:

1.Tocotronic – Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen (Superpitcher / Wassermann Mix)
2. Kaito – Everlasting
3. Terranova Feat. Tomas Høffding – Paris Is For Lovers (My Love)
4. Justus Köhncke – Timecode
5. Heiko Voss – I Think About You
6. Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer – Neo
7. The Bionaut – Everybody’s Kissing Everyone
8. Ada Feat. Raz Ohara – Lovestoned
9. Superpitcher – Mushroom
10. Rex The Dog – Prototype

Green Disc:

1. Dettinger – Blond 1
2. The Field – Over The Ice
3. Robag Wruhme – Calma Calma
4. Saschienne – Unknown (Dixon Mix)
5. Max Würden – Circles
6. Gas – Pop 1
7. Triola – AG Penthouse (2. Epoche)
8. Thomas Fehlmann – Making It Whistle
9. SCSI-9 – All She Wants Is (Wighnomy Bros. Mix)
10. Jürgen Paape – Reval 1

Yellow Disc:

1. The Modernist – Pearly Spencer
2. Aril Brikha – Berghain
3. T.Raumschmiere – Augen Zu
4. Reinhard Voigt – Superskunk
5. Schaeben & Voss – Dicht Dran 1
6. DJ Koze – Brutalga Square
7. The Orb – Masterblaster
8. Michael Mayer – Pride Is Weaker Than Love
9. Laurent Garnier – From The Crypt To The Astrofloor
10. Anna & Kittin – Forever Ravers

Orange Disc:

1. Mike Ink – Rosenkranz
2. Reinhard Voigt – Stille Hände
3. Forever Sweet – The Bionaut
4. Wassermann – W.I.R. (Sven Väth Mix)
5. Blank Gloss – Coiling
6. Michael Mayer / Matias Aguayo – Slow
7. Wighnomy Bros – Wurz + Blosse
8. John Tejada – Unstable Condition
9. Sam Taylor-Wood Produced By Pet Shop Boys – I’m In Love With A German Film Star
10. Jürgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie

Pink Disc:

1. Matias Aguayo – Walter Neff
2. Voigt & Voigt – Tischlein Deck Dich
3. Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life
4. Kölsch – Goldfisch
5. Gusgus – Rivals (DJ Hell Mix)
6. Closer Musik – Maria
7. Wassermann – Fackeln Im Sturm
8. Jürgen Paape – Take That
9. Superpitcher – Happiness (Michael Mayer Mix)
10. Markus Guentner – Regensburg

Picture Disc:

1. Unlisted – 500 Bassdrums
2. Unlisted – The 33 1/3 Years Loop-Opera
3. Unlisted – 50 Loops