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Is there a Total Total comp? Like one track from each volume.
Here's a crack at one:
1. Joachim Speith - Abi 99
2. Michael Mayer - Amanda
3. Jurgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
4. Closer Musik - Maria
5. Superpitcher - Mushroom
6. The MFA - The Difference It Makes
7. SCSI-9 – When She Said Goodbye
8. DJ Koze - Mariposa
9. Matias Aguayo - Minimal
10. Gui Boratto - No Turning Back (Wighnomy Brothers Remix)
11. I genuinely can't remember a thing on this one so for completeness sake it can be whichever Voigt is on this one
12. Kolombo - Waiting For
14. Coma - Atlantis
15. Rex The Dog - Sicko
16. Wassermann - Die Schallplatte
Somewhat arbitrary picks from 11 onwards (with the exception of the Kolombo, which is all time) and it's actually very difficult NOT to default to the obvious anthems on the early ones while simultaneously ensuring everyone's represented.
The mid-period (7-10 or so) is if anything underrated even if the compilations themselves are WAY overlong. What's striking about the last few is how little identity there is, it stops feeling like a collective of interrelated artists and the comps just become this jumble of artists who have done most of their best-known work elsewhere (Maceo Plex, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Ulrich Schnauss, Patrice Baumel, Agoria, Audion, John Tejada on the last two alone).
― Matt DC
I hate that the obvious highlights from each comp are always missing from the vinyl versions of the compilation. There's the comp KOMPAKT 20 JAHRE which you could call a Best of Total compilation. This is the tracklist for the CD version:
CD 1
01. Heiko Voss – I Think About You
02. Matias Aguayo – Minimal (DJ Koze Mix)
03. Dorau/Köhncke – Durch Die Nacht (Geiger Mix)
04. Matias Aguayo – Walter Neff
05. Justus Köhncke – 2 After 909
06. Voigt & Voigt – Vision 03
07. Leandro Fresco – Cera Uno
08. Michael Mayer – Lovefood
09. Pluxus – Transient
10. The Field – Over The Ice
11. Wighnomy Bros. – Wurz + Blosse
12. Mayer/Voigt – Transparenza
13. Dettinger – TotentanzCD 2
01. Jonas Bering – Melanie
02. Kaito – Everlasting
03. Superpitcher – Happiness (Lawrence Mix)
04. Gus Gus – Within You
05. Scsi 9 – Morskaya
06. Thomas Fehlmann – Making It Whistle
07. DJ Koze – Mariposa
08. Gui Boratto – Arquipélago
09. John Tejada -Unstable Condition
10. Rex The Dog – Prototype
11. Partial Arts – Trauermusik
12. The Rice Twins – For Penny And Alexis
and the vinyl version:
A1 –Justus Köhncke 2 After 909
A2 –Matias Aguayo Minimal (DJ Koze Mix)
B1 –Voigt & Voigt Vision 03
B2 –Michael Mayer Lovefood
C1 –DJ Koze Mariposa
C2 –The Field Over The Ice
D1 –Gui Boratto Arquipélago
D2 –Superpitcher Happiness (Lawrence Mix)
I guess it's also good in vinyl but come one... why put a track like Lovefood in there which wasn't even a highlight in TOTAL 6. Instead of Heiko Voss or Partial Arts or Rice Twins even Aguayo track is more unique and fun.
I also bought TOTAL 6 on vinyl without knowing the tracklist. Bought TOTAL 6 because these were some of my favorite songs released by Kompakt that year:
MFA - Difference it makes
Baxendale -I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)
Mikkel Metal - Dorant
SCSI-9 - Mini
Yeah, of course they're missing from the vinyl version. Same thing happened to me with TOTAL 14, my two favorite songs from that year are on the cd version and were completely ignored by the vinyl version.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 20 October 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
I think it's common practice (not to mention economical) for a house/techno record company to not repeat tracks that were previously on vinyl on a subsequent vinyl album or comp. The Total vinyls are usually just the exclusive tracks to the comp---the hardcore fans already have/heard the previously released tracks.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
The Superpitcher Remix of "The Difference It Makes" is more of a "classic" (in both senses of the word) Kompakt track than the original in any event.
Still remember hearing Tobias Thomas dropping that at Maria in Berlin at the beginning of 2005.
― Tim F, Friday, 21 October 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the Superpitcher mix definitely ups the ante.
I have probably said this before, but in my opinion a compilation of all the Superpitcher remixes would be the best Kompakt-related album ever.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 21 October 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
And mine was getting the National Express coach down to London to see Mayer at Fabric, one and only time I went. He opened his set with it around 4am, was nearly in tears. First time I'd heard it and no idea what it was, had a nosey over the decks and committed the picture of the labEl with the mountain on to memory. Finding the 12" in the record shop a couple of weeks later was a moment.
― ewar woowar (or something), Friday, 21 October 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the Superpitcher remix of The Difference It Makes is probably one of the five Kompakt tracks I would play to an absolute beginner but it isn't on any of the Totals.
I don't think I've ever heard it in the wild and this is a source of permanent regret to me.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 October 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
three years pass...
five months pass...