Michael Mayer - "Immer"

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Weird that this thread was started 5 years ago.

Immer 2 is not > Immer, but it's pretty frackin good.

IMO u diplo/hollatronix dickriders

that's fair

diplo presents immer

i like the first three tracks on immer 2, and 'another station'. the rest is so... kompakt-y

well, yeah!

I love Mayer's capacity to make you take notice of a track that you otherwise would have overlooked. The SCSI-9 track sounds mindblowing on Immer 2, and I was like "woah what the fuck is this", completely forgetting I was already familiar with it on the SCSI-9 album.

And of course "Lying in a Bed of Mist" is brilliant.

Speicher CD 2 doesn't get enough love.

i think i'm looking for more gas-like tracks rather than dancefloor stuff so with that said, do any of these:

Superpitcher - Today (cd mix)
CLOSER MUSIK - ONE, TWO, THREE... (12)
jurgen paape - so weit wie noch nie (12)
justus koehncke - was ist musik (cd full-length)
scsi 9 - mini (12)
rex the dog - frequency (12)
total 6 (cd comp)
total 7 (cd comp)
(i don't know the earlier totals as well as i should but i'm sure there's great stuff on there)
partial arts - trauermusik
superpitcher - I walk (12, may not have come out on kompakt, well worth hearing)
justus koehncke - doppelebben (cd full-length)

fit into that or do i just go for the pop ambient comps (and which of those are the good ones)

frankly, no, but it's very likely you will like this:

http://tweakfm.com/audio.html

download the march 9th sven weisemann mix, it's fantastico.

(beware the false start on it though)

thx. so is that no on the pop ambient too??

i'm still going to give those a try btw, so thanks jergins

am0n- Pop Ambient 2001 is almost certainly the best of the series. I really like 2006 as well. 2004 and 2005 are the weakest of the bunch, I think.

If you're looking for something similar to Gas, try Dettinger- Intershop or Markus Guentner- In Moll. Also wonder if you'd like Marsen Jules' Herbstlaub on City Centre.

cool. just listened to samples of 2006 and think i'll start with that

jed - nice mix

am0n, i don't know the pop ambient's well enough to give recommendations. i like them well enough though.

I'd say 2002 and 2003 are the best pop ambients. 2001 is the series in a more embryonic form (its got more house beats/glitchy clicks-n-cuts than any of the other volumes).

i listened to both immers back to back and 2 isn't looking so good now :/

the cd for 2 came with a password to download this:

IMMER 2 DIGITAL-COMPILED BY MICHAEL MAYER (KOMPAKT AKTION)
INTRO (ESEL 025)

NO MATTER WHETHER (DRECK 010)

LUKON MICHAEL MAYER RMX (ECHOCORD 014)

2ND BOOTY (ASTROLAB)

MAPS (MAYER/THOMAS RMX) (AREAL 030)

ABERMORGEN (KOMPAKT POP 004)

TERRE & FUNK SHUI:SUPERBONUS (SUPEREDIT) (MULE 020)

Amon if you want Gas-type stuff by all means check out the Pop Ambient series.

Pop Ambient 2001 is the most varied and listener-friendly I think. Pop Ambient 2002 and 2003 are more focused (on non-focus, if that makes sense) but lovely if you let yourself zone out to them. I especially like 2002 owing to the Triola and Donnacha Costello tracks. Decided that was all I needed and haven't checked out subsequent editions.

You might also like Total 2, which I think is a bit underrated (compared to the praise that Total 3 gets) and captures the label at a nice point-of-transition moving from stark abstraction towards pop friendliness.

I have nothing against PA2001, but you can really hear the development, and see how Kompakt was coming into its own during the time from PA2001/Total 1 'til PA2002/Total 2.

pa2007 is the only pa i like

königsforst-esque, it is

rrrrrly @_@

I don't disagree with you Michael, but as I recall wasn't there only, like, 8 months between the releases of PA2001 and PA2002?

CLOSER MUSIK - ONE, TWO, THREE... (12)

^ i like dis

yoooooooo immer 2 > immer

bye

-- am0n, Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:57 PM (8 months ago)

^dumbass

I listened to this the other day and it was good, but I think I prefer Fabric 13.

I have no idea why it need to be a sequel mix. As if MM hadn't put out other mixes in between (although correct me if these were Kompakt only mixes or something of the sort).

I think Fabric 13 still is better than Immer, which while it has that perfect track selection that flows perfectly from one another, Fabric has some of the most character I've ever heard in a mix. Admittedly I could give a shit for Michael Mayer's mixing, but he has this rare ability to weave a story out of a mix (which I think he does a bit less in Immer)

Also went back to both recently (spurred, if anyone cares, by hearing "Saturndays" on the Junior Boys body language mix, then wanting better Mayer stuff). I love the first half of the Fabric mix, but find that it drops off badly. Whereas the first half of Immer feels like a slow build towards a fantastic second half.

we are
perfect lovers
beside the fact
that we're not there

and i think it is alright
that we are only seen by night!!!!!!

was listening to this on headphones yesterday. are there any other akufen trax as dope as psychometry?

quebec nightclub!

Selway - Flying Far is so incredibly good in this thing.

yeah that's my favourite.

Immer 3 is coming out this summer

Tracklist:
1. Courtney Tidwell – Don’t Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s Ambient Mix)
2. Closer Musik – Departures
3. Ben Watt – Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Remix)
4. Tim Paris – Edges of Corrosion
5. Smith N Hack – Falling Stars
6. Raudive – Slave
7. Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
8. Popnoname – Hello Gorgeous (Terranova Remix)
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Operation (Superpitcher Remix)
10. Culoe de Song – The Bright Forest
11. Kinky Justice – New Day

ooh, love "falling stars"

Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Operation (Superpitcher Remix) - This is so good. As heard on Tobias Thomas' Speaking In Tongues mix. Falling Stars is also amazing. Justus Köhncke's version of New Day is cool. A lot of these tracks have been around a while.

Should I have listened to Immer 2?

yes! i love it about as much as the orig

first 2 songs are probably my favorite songs ever, i'm interested in how he mixes them.

I miss closer Musik. And Departures is one of my favorites. I hope this mix is as romantic as the first one.

yeah a bunch of not-new tracks here huh?

6. Raudive – Slave

this is that grace jones sampling track......'romantic' def isn't the word

re: using old tracks

‘Immer’ means ‘always’ in German, and fittingly the mix series has always been anchored in tracks that, for Mayer, have a certain timelessness, with less emphasis on the new and untested.

miss the immer label tbh. how sick was that benjamin diamond/connective zone split?

last track must be that justus kohncke cover of 'new day' by round two/basic channel that i heard about a while back

this looks great!

Ben Watt – Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Remix)

This is one of my absolute favourite DJ Koze remixes (probably my favourite in fact) and is perfect for an Immer mix.

Mayer using old tracks seems sensible as well in that this overall style is generally "outmoded" now.

This looks perfect, just the right thing if he's going to do another mix in the series.

Culoe de Song – The Bright Forest

Fan of this ever since his RA podcast.

Kinky Justice track was on Myspace a while back

So hyped for this

Immer = Always = Classic tracks. I never made that connection before!