Michael Mayer - "Immer"

And about the Immer Null 12"- has anyone here heard it yet?

: )

xp i was thinking coladin

kompakt (via the website) had sold out of immer for a while but it was available again recently.

that smog mix looks gr8 btw.

Very disappointing for "classic tracks"....

i'm diggin immer 2. can i get recommendations for other kompakt releases that are essential? other than the first immer, that is.

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)

all essential, for me

two albums that came out close to one another and have hits and misses: matias aguayo - are you really lost and dj koze - koze comes around

sublabel kompop has some absolute essentials. all singles:

HEIKO VOSS
I THINK ABOUT YOU

THE MFA
THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES

MICHAEL MAYER
LOVEFOOD REMIXE

BAXENDALE
I BUILT THIS CITY

MATIAS AGUAYO
DE PAPEL

should i buy that supermayer single at the record store? love the cover. i should just buy it.

Total 2 & 3
1st Kaito
Friends
Immer
Smallville

jaded. ronan is so clever :D

"I walk" is by Quarks I think? The spitcher remix was a Speicher release.

There's a primer-type mp3 pack called 'kompakt us 1' that contains the, uh, 'hits' I guess, which is quite an easy way of getting a few of yr essentials.

Speaking of Kompakt Pop: Dorau/Kohncke, "Durch Die Nacht"! Perfect in every way!

yeh i luv that one

would never have heard this in a world without ILM

Yay the Rick Rubin model works!

Immer is such a good mix - right up until the transition from Akufen's Psychometry to the Phantomghost song, where it completely loses momentum and falls flat on its face. I've never understood its classic status at all.

It's bad enough to put a song with a long wanky beatless breakdown in a mix, but to slowly build up to the funkiest song on the album, and then follow that song with this long, boring, beatless... ugh, I just don't understand it. I have never made it all the way through track 10 on this mix.

I guess it works as a dance mix for the bedroom or on the iPod on the way to work, but what's the point? I saw him live a few years ago, and he rocked the house. If any of his mix albums were like that set, they'd be classics for me.

I love that part of the mix!

i finally really like "immer" now

carsten jost - you don't need a weatherman (superpitcher remix)

best thing on it imo - not doing a poll tho

Ooh that'd be a hard poll. Probably between that, the Rocket in Dub track and Fehlmann's "Gratis" for me.

I third the love for "Durch Die Nacht" - all three versions are lovely.

In many ways though Immer is much more than the sum of its parts - I'd say a good third of the tracks I'd have little use for on their own.

Contrast with Mayer's Fabric mix, which feels much more "greatest hits", lots of big anthem tracks.

i am confounded by the little attention that immer 2 gets on ILM. sure, it doesn't throw down the gauntlet in the same way (how could it?), but it feels like less of a statement and more of a continuation with modern (well, 06) tracks. the second half certainly rivals immer for sexy melancholy and the first half does a good job at breaking away from early 00's revivalism (not that kompakt needed to do it) i.e., advancing the sonic palette while hewing to the traditional model. i just like how it all hangs together and the kind of eastern european sophistication it has.

yoooooooo immer 2 > immer

bye

plz

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspect5es.gif

Weird that this thread was started 5 years ago.

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