Kolsch - 1977 (Kompakt 2013)

This came out yesterday and I'm really feeling it. It's kind of a 50/50 split between previously released tracks and new stuff, but given that most people won't have heard anything here before I doubt that makes much difference.

I'm not sure how much there is to actually say about it but it's so euphoric and consistently enjoyable that it deserves its own thread. It's nothing more and nothing less than a collection of hands-in-the-air bangers and that's fine by me.

Goldfisch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWvyRIB_-I

All That Matters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXM9Vz6V_84

Der Alte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVC9bttAO5Y

i like that first one. i like the beginning of the third one cuz it reminds me of don't bring me down by elo.

I'm only disappointed as 7 of the 13 tracks have been released as singles. A solid release for Kompakt. This and Terranova's new version of Christiane F's Wunderbar are the best things they've released this year.

I didn't realise it was that many - all but three or four are new to me.

yeah all of the ones you posted as Youtubes have been out as singles already but given that he has had such a great run of singles I still want to pick up this album. very excited to hear the new tracks. of the ones that have been out already "Loreley" is probably my favorite, I read a description of it somewhere that was like, "a priest on Ecstasy sits down at the pipe organ to play 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers" so that's always the mental image I get with it now. such a weird great track.

probably my favorite electronic music producer at the moment.

The vocals on "All That Matters" are a bit Swedish House Mafia for my tastes but otherwise this guy is essential.

my review: http://crackmagazine.net/music/kolsch/

The vocals on "All That Matters" are a bit Swedish House Mafia for my tastes but otherwise this guy is essential.

yep agreed. the instrumental of that track is great though!

Forgot about "Opa." This album rules. Among the new ones I'm liking "Basshund" the best.

really love this, thought it makes me wish a lot of things, if that makes any sense, including why there aren't more stranglers edits.

*though*

The run from 'Basshund' to 'Eiswinter' is so so great. This album should be getting more love.

I've gone off 'Opa' though, there something about its mid-rangey blare that grates after a while.

It's certainly very front-loaded, as an album I found it to be a bit too much for one sitting in terms of emotive bombast. But yes, more love for Kolsch please.

It's got a bit of a live set feel, I think.

I was surprised that some of the reviews of this were like "Kompakt goes big & dumb" (Resident Advisor specifically). I mean it's definitely a big sound, but to me it's big & smart. It's not like it sounds like lowest common denominator EDM.

RA reviews are the worst. I'm still going to have to get this even though I've got the 12s.

This is very nice! Just picked this up based on the talk here. Vinyl appears to have only the new tracks and none of the singles, however.

good to know. that's kind of a bummer actually, most of the singles I bought on Beatport ... I thought I could play catch-up on getting em all on vinyl with the LP.

this is like the Booka Shade of 2013, but in a very good way

The new Daniel Avery Rinse FM show has a guest mix by Kolsch.

kompakt has always been big and dumb. or at least for about 10 years anyway.

i really wasn't into one of the big tracks off this but i like the other one (i think "all that matters" is the good one, the instrumental only though.) so i've held off as a result.

I kinda dislike Opa which I think was his really big anthem, the rest is lovely.

http://halesbrewery.com/Kolsch.jpg

Opa was probably the first Kolsch I heard, on Erol Alkan's Another Bugged Out Mix. I was under the impression that Loreley was kinda big too but maybe nobody except Alkan ever played it.

Der Alte is the one I've always thought was massive?

Der Alte is the big piano anthem. I was meh on it 'til I heard tobias thomas play it out they other week, then it was goosebumps. I quite like the other stuff I've heard but it does have the feel of the stadium techno it's ok to like. Obv that's often been a part of kompakt's appeal (cf. gui boratto).

am enjoying 1983 atm, making me wish I'd been dancing out more in the last year or so

not so sure re the vocal track towards the end ..

bit too mungolian jet set for my liking

the rest though is cracking

Just finished a long night drive and "Der Alte" came on shuffle... great memories of 2013.

final part of the year based trilogy announced : "1989" :

PR :

KÖLSCH - 1989 (Kompakt)
Release date: 22nd September 2017

Kölsch returns to Kompakt with the third and final chapter in his autobiographical album trilogy, featuring contributions from Gregor Schwellenbach with the Heritage Orchestra and Norwegian vocalist Aurora.

For Danish native and much-revered producer/performer Rune Reilly KÖLSCH, Kompakt has proven the perfect home curating his music: with two critically acclaimed albums and a now classic run of solo instalments in the Speicher 12” series, he took his techno craftsmanship to new levels, setting it on a melodic, emotive and even autobiographical course - without losing any of its punch and quirkiness. With new full-length 1989, Kölsch presents the final chapter of an elegant, anthemic album trilogy that started with an exploration of early childhood memories and influences on “1977” - the year of his birth – and continued on “1983”, a vibrant and picturesque journey sound-tracking the year he travelled through Europe aged six.

“With 1989, we have arrived in my early teens”, Kölsch explains, “a difficult time in my life, where I mostly just remember the greyness of it all – grey feelings, grey weather and my own grey face.” Coinciding with the already challenging need to squeeze past the bottleneck of puberty, it was a time of seething family crisis – his parents were divorcing: “I would escape that grey world on my skateboard, listen to my Walkman as I explored the city around me. Music became my savior – the only way to overcome my family’s hard times. I found a soundtrack to my grey life, and suddenly there was color.” It’s why you’ll find several tracks on the album being named “grey” in different languages, and they all share this distinctly “Kölsch-esque” moment of epic melodies breaking through propulsive techno beats like the sun through stormy clouds – a musical twist that’s particularly impressive on album hit single PUSH, first heard on “Speicher 97” (KOM EX 97).

1989 also marks Kölsch’s intensified deployment of real-life orchestral sounds and the continuation of his extremely fruitful collab with Gregor Schwellenbach: after contributing to predecessor album “1983”, the Kompakt affiliate, composer and multi- instrumentalist now conducts the Heritage Orchestra for tracks KHAIRO, LIATH (featuring a violin solo by Kate Robinson) and SERJI, the latter of which Schwellenbach co-wrote and co-produced. The 24-person Heritage Orchestra consists of violins, violas, cellos and double basses, adding the sweeping drama and organic, richly layered textures that only real strings can produce – a deeply humane tone that is set with the album’s opening recording of the orchestra tuning its instruments (which incidentally also incorporates a voice recording from 1989 of Rune Reilly’s grandfather Ludwig). Seeing Kölsch’s propensity for vocalist cameos on his albums (Trœls Abrahamsen on “1977”, Tomas Høffding and Waa Industry on “1983”), one shouldn’t be surprised to find beautiful cut IN BOTTLES, which features vocals written and performed by Aurora Aksnes.

looking forward to this a lot.

this group is def getting up there with Hatchback as some of my best "zoning out while writing something for work" music

he's ok i guess, id rather listen to a cocoon mix or something

"goldfish" is awesome, though. organ!!

I don't know what cocoon mix is but I'll chalk it up to the blissful ignorance of being a dance music dilletante

yeah that was a bad post, sorry :(

Cocoon is a label, more German trancey mnml techno biz

the kolsch track, PUSH, on TOTAL 17 is very Vangelis/soundtrack sounding, and bloody fantastic.

I will check that. I have so many Totals to catch up to!

Had no idea until just now that Kolsch made the original version of "Calabria"

huh, didn't know that either. remakes / remixes all over beatport. it seems like a euro thing to me idk.