Kompakt Total Poll

i don't think "amanda" is very good. nice sample, though.

Moka, if you want "the difference it makes on CD", i'd recommend James Holden's Balance mix: https://www.discogs.com/James-Holden-Balance-005/release/186636

any Kompakt fans down with Cabinet Records? Same kind of sleek tech house vibe.

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.

Still remember hearing Tobias Thomas dropping that at Maria in Berlin at the beginning of 2005.

My big memory of this record is hearing stirmonster aka Twitch playing it at the Glass House in Williamsburg at exactly the right part of the night. And it making me feel as if I were on drugs despite having had nothing stronger than two Heinekens.

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.

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.

They're at #20 by now!
Great guide to all of them (with personal favorites from each one) by Michaelangelo Matos on bandcamp daily:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/kompakt-total-guide

i guess the days of kompakt releasing mix cds is coming to an end.

https://kompakt.fm/releases/connecting_the_dots

That cover looks like one of those Japanese logic puzzles where you have to draw a loop around the grid and the dots offer clues.