S/D:Total series on Kompakt

total 3
total 4
total 2
total 1

total 5

I don't know if I wholeheartedly agree since just over half of the tracks on Schaffelfieber 2 were Kompakt-proper -- and out of those, only the Orb and Mikkel Metal tracks do anything for me. They released a lot of their best '04 material after Total 5; I think that's the greater factor. I posted an alternate comp that reflects this somewhere else, but I can't recall exactly where.*

I'd rank the Totals 3-4-2-1-5 as well, though 4 and 2 are a tie. I'm partial to 2 'cause that's when I started paying attention (i.e. the point at which Teenage Mutant Nihilist 313 Drug Counselor says they became tiresome.)

*While I was sick a couple weeks back, I actually went through the trouble of making alternate versions of all the Totals. I knew they had left some of their best tracks off the comps, but I had no idea how many until then.

Much to my dismay

After reading your review for Leave luck to heaven is there any chance you can reccomend any more, and I quote "high-caliber, heartfelt techno-pop"?

Hector, all I can think of at this early hour is Kraftwerk.

Darn.. (shuffles his feet, puts head down)

Martini Bros - Boy/Girl
Junior Boys - High Come Down
Raz O'Hara - This'a Beautiful Day (Matthias Schaffhauser Remix)
Michael Mayer - Hush Hush Baby
Alexander Kowalski - Lock Me Up
Coloma - If You Can't Be Good
Matthew Dear - Dog Days
Closer Musik - One Two Three (No Gravity)
Markus Nikolai - Superstar
Decomposed Subsonic - Part of the Machine
Luomo - What Good
DNTEL - The Dream of Evan & Chan (Superpitcher Remix)
Heiko Voss - I Think About You

I'd obv. welcome more suggestions for this list too, so get cracking people!

Neuromantisch

001 Last Exit - Junior Boys (KIN)
002 Rund - Betrieb (Mille Plateaux)
003 You Never - Benjamin Wild (Source)
004 Closer Dancer - Closer Musik (Kompakt)
005 Das Lied Vom Einsamen... (Lawrence Remix) - Martin L. Gore (Mute)006 Perfect Lovers - Phantom Ghost (Ladomat 2000)
007 Really Real - Schaeben & Geiger (Firm)
008 What You Say Is More Than I Can Say - Villalobos (Playhouse)
009 Dog Days (Pantytec Interpretation) - Matthew Dear (Spectral Sound)
010 If They Ask You to Stay - Coloma (Ware)

Please tell me more about the Benjamin Wild and Betrieb tracks...

The Benjamin Wild one is on his recent album for Source. It's rather subdued -- soft keyboard melodies, light shuffling (but not shuffle) rhythm -- and the male vocalist whispers a few lines: "You never want to be touched/You never want to be...," etc. His voice is no louder than Dirk Leyers' in the Closer Musik tune.

I have quite a few tracks off the first Finney list but am looking forward to tracking down stuff off the new Andy K one.

Is it assumable that these are sitting somewhere on soulseek?

That would be supper cool

I have never listened to a Kompakt Total release! is 3 still the one to start with?

I like 5 and 6.

Sorry, I meant 6 and 7... probably 6.

I'm a relative newcomer to the Kompakt Total series (mid-decade convert, casual-to-obsessive fan of most things on the label) and I have and enjoy Total 6, 8, 9, 10 (skipped 7 for some unknown reason). Still plan on digging into the first five when I happen across them in stores, used or otherwise. But those named are all enjoyable to some degree!

5 and 1 are the worst. 2 and 10 the least interesting imho. You can't go wrong picking any of the other 6.

2 is awesome!

I would rank them:

3 > 4 = 2 > 7 > 6 > 1 = 5 = 8 = 9

Haven't heard 10.

^trust dis guy.

9 and 10 probably have the lowest ratio of good to bad tracks. Part of me wishes they'd go back to a single disc.

Can't go wrong with 3 and 4. I love 6, 7 and 8 too.

3 is my absolute favorite, kinda right when they hit their groove between the washy ambient to minimal krauthaus to the stiff-but-dirty electrochill (referring to Closer Musik "Departures" which is 100% my fave track on here and a hell of a way to close a comp, also: it makes a hello of a transition into the 7+ minute ext mix of Debbie Deb's "When I Hear Music"... ok enuff giving away my secrets!).

i like them all pretty much. or all the ones i have anyway. thanks again, ilm! i owe you big time! totally makes up for the bum avalanches and junior boys recommendations!

total 11 is so much fun

I don't know any of the tracks on the new TOTAL 14 compilation. Is it worth it?

No idea on which tracks will make it on the vinyl version as they always remove a few of these but here's the cd tracklist:

Tracklist
CD1
01. Dauwd - Lydia
02. COMA - Atlantis
03. Gui Boratto feat. Coma And Hell - Take Control
04. Kölsch feat. Gregor Schwellenbach - Cassiopeia
05. Terranova feat. Cath Coffey - Headache
06. Dave DK - Palmaille
07. Superpitcher - Delta
08. Saschienne - Horacio Delirium
09. Blond:ish - Wunderkammer
10. Gunjah & Niconé - Disko 90
11. Maceo Plex - Conjure Superstar
12. Weval - Something (Live)

CD2
01. DAMH - Black Night
02. Thomas/Mayer - Unter Hölzern
03. Thomas Fehlmann - Eye
04. Voigt & Voigt - Tischlein Deck Dich
05. Sebastien Bouchet - Broken Heart
06. Michael Mayer - Lamusetwa (Matias Aguayo Mix)
07. DJ Tennis feat. Pillowtalk - The Outcast
08. The Modernist - Die Fette Gazelle And The Hidden Sixpack
09. Partial Arts - Taifa (The Emperor Machine Mix)
10. Justus Köhncke - Loop
11. The Field - No. No... (John Tejada Mix)
12. GusGus - This Is What You Get When You Mess With Love
13. Jürgen Paape - Heuriger

Kompakt will release Total 14 on August 18th, 2014.

i have this memory that one of the tracks on one of these had a glitched-up "this be the verse". can anyone point me there?

That was MRI, back on Mille Plateaux's "Electric Ladyland Clickhop Version 1.0" (the start of a series that never went anywhere?) – the track is "As A Child I Could Fly Without Wings". Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyAVxx9bQi8

A bunch of the tracks from Total 14 on Kompakt's channel. Made it a worthwhile purchase for me.

all wack except #1

first half of #2 is ok

Thanks whn -- i've had that track in my itunes since it came out, but I haven't been able to find it in years!

So, I ordered the vinyl version of TOTAL 14 and I'm extremely dissapointed that this just includes 7 tracks and the exclusive ones at that which are nowhere as good as the others. :S Is this a usual thing for the TOTAL comps? This sucks.

A1 -Superpitcher Delta
B1 –Saschienne Horacio Delirium
B2 –Weval Something (Live)
C1 –Tobias Thomas / Michael Mayer Unter Hölzern
C2 –Voigt & Voigt Tischlein Deck Dich
D1 –Modernist, The Die Fette Gazelle And The Hidden Sixpack
D2 –Jürgen Paape Heuriger

Also it was stupid expensive and I thought it was worth it because of all the songs included. What a sham.

I'm about halfway through listening to 14 (CD version, vinyl is for suckers) and I'm liking it a lot. The mood seems a little darker than previous volumes, like EBM/industrial is coming back as an influence (something I've noticed all over the place, starting with the Nitzer Ebb-isms on Yeezus). A lot of female vocalists this time out, too.

Vinyl is awesome. Just not for this comp.

Total 3 was my jam when I was driving a lot at night.

basslines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5mMCim2A4

I think the into version being a compact (har har) version of he cd is nothing new. I know it's the case which at least Total 10, which is the newest one I have.

I've mostly kind of ignored them from 7 on, given kompakt's general inconsistency, but now I'm wondering if any of those editions particularly hold up...

This one is pretty good, first CD especially. 'Wunderkammer' by Blond:ish is probably the highlight, but I really like the opening track and the Superpitcher one with the ridiculously elongated vowel sound.

Fucking atrocious vocal on the Terranova track, mind,

Maybe worth noting that on Total 12, the Superpitcher track on the LP was different from the one on the CD – it had a long sample of a drunken Dylan Thomas reading a poem that wasn't on the CD version, which was completely instrumental.

Yeah this is sorta making me wish I hadn't ignored the last seven Totals or whatever

'Wunderkammer' by Blond:ish

See, this would have me worried, because when I listened to the EP that it's from all I heard was immacutely-produced yet instantly-forgettable generic tech-house. I haven't spent enough time with the compilation as a whole but on first impressions it is inconsisently good.

Fucking atrocious vocal on the Terranova track, mind,

This came on and I knew exactly which track you were talking about... it's close to effective though