Kompakt's annual collection of pop-tinged soundscapes enters its twelfth year with label mainstays Wolfgang Voigt , Superpitcher , and The Field 's Axel Willner (operating here as Loops of Your Heart ) joined by a cast of names old and new. The resulting ten tracks are aligned in their gradual approaches to ambient composition with a handful of highlights and a few low points found along the way. read more

Just two releases deep and Hippie Dance is already my new favorite record label. Eccentric, creative and totally leftfield dance music is clearly the theme behind this imprint, and I absolutely love it. Run by Superpitcher and Rebolledo , the label's output so far has focused on their collaborative efforts as Pachanga Boys , and both releases have been some of the most interesting stuff I've heard lately. Perhaps it's not for everyone in the dance music spectrum, but you can't deny that it's totally different and slightly absurd. Personally, I wish there were more people doing ...

Mexican electronic producer Mauricio Rebolledo is best known for his forays as one-half of Pachanga Boys alongside Superpitcher, but this debut album as Rebolledo on Matias Aguayo’s new Comeme label ‘Super Vato’ offers up his first solo full-length. As you’d expect given Rebolledo’s Kompakt connections, there’s a firm techno / house pulse to the ten [...] Rebolledo – Super Vato (Comeme) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine .

Reputed German techno label Kompakt 's long-running Pop Ambient series is set to continue in 2012, with the latest installment seeing release on January 31 of that year. The compilation features contributions from Wolfgang Voigt , Superpitcher , Loops of Your Heart (aka the side project from the Field 's Axel Willner), and Brock Van Wey 's bvdub project. Van Wey's contribution, "Your Loyalty Lies Long Forgotten", is available for streaming below.

Das Kölner Techno- und Minimal-Label Kompakt veröffentlicht am 30. Januar die mittlerweile zwölfte Ausgabe seiner "Pop Ambient"-Serie. Der Mut zur Entschleunigung ist auch diesmal ein Kerngedanke des Samplers. Mit neuen Stücken von Label-Gründer Wolfgang Voigt, Superpitcher oder The Field , welcher hier unter dem Pseudonym Loops Of Your Heart auftritt, ist man künstlerisch breit aufgestellt. Klassische Ambient-Flächen sollen dabei genauso Raum finden wie jazzige und experimentelle Momente. Die Cover mitsamt der kompletten Tracklist könnt ihr hier bestaunen: "Kompakt Pop Ambient 2012" — Tracklist: 01. Mohn - "Manifesto" 02. Superpitcher - "Jackson" 03. Morek - "Pan" 04. Magazine - "The Visitor's Bureau (Magazine Edit)" 05 ...

Super Vato, Rebolledo Cómeme, México Rating: 89 by Andrew Casillas Somewhere out there is a room that’s darker than anything in Entertainment 720’s color palette, where aged whiskey and justifiably-priced champagne flow like lava. Where lights exist for the sole purpose of looking cool. A place where shiny shirts are banned in favor of comfortable, tucked-in button downs, and where nothing matters except how deliberately outmoded your hairstyle is. This is the coolest room in the world. And, right now, Super Vato is spinning on the P.A. in an endless loop. The debut full-length from Xalapa, Mexico ...

CARGO CULT Dropped From The Sky Mix 28:34, 320kbps MP3 1. Gigamesh When You're Dancing (RAC Remix) 2. Foster The People Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix) 3. Goldenbug Futuregirl 4. Lullabies In The Dark Iridium (Superpitcher Remix) 5. Black Devil Disco Club To Ardent feat Nancy Sinatra (Horse Meat Disco Remix) Every Thursday at Nouveau Palais (281 Bernard Ouest)

This week's podcast is a Kompakt Takeover - a special edition focusing on the hugely influential music label and organisation from Cologne, represented at We Love this summer by Michael Mayer, Ewan Pearson and Superpitcher who provides this week's live set, selects four key tracks from the label's back catalogue, and chats about Ibiza, Kilimanjaro and outdoor voodoo. music comes from Justus Koehncke, Matias Aguayo, Superpitcher and Supermayer Alternative links Superpitcher - We Love Ibiza 2011 Podcast 011 [Uploaded.to] Superpitcher - We Love Ibiza 2011 Podcast 011 [Wupload.com] Superpitcher - We Love Ibiza 2011 Podcast 011 [Depositfiles.com]

If you like your tunes super-sized, this is a good week for you. Afrojack, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, and Nervo go large with " The Way We See The World ," the official Tomorrowland anthem, and they're not the only ones going straight for the peak-time. Jay Lumen 's "Switch (The Chocolates Remix)" is a throbbing mass of festival-grade techno, and Koen Groeneveld unleashes the sirens on "Lakbava." On Kittball , Tube & Berger and K.Sanders are a lot sweeter, but their "Bring Back The Love" is just as anthemic in its own, bright-eyed way, perfect for daytime play. On an even more underground tip, Nhar drops another trippy, late-night vocal masterpiece, "Moonhole," for Perspectiv, sounding like he's been listening to a lot of Superpitcher . Phonogenic trots out his typically spine-tingling tech house on "The Raw Deal" for Room With A View, and MRSK remixes Anthony Shakir for Secretsundaze, coming up with a mix as deep as it is muscular. Shonky remixes Alex Celler 's "Blue Vaudeville" for Cecille Numbers, with crispy 909 snares and chords you can sink your teeth into. Atavism comes to the shadowy Haunt label with a low-slung acid jack, and Glimpse sinks into dub chords and touches of blues in his remix of Stojche's "1984." And Crosstown/Hot Creations fans are going to want to hear Tale Of Us exorcise their R&B; demons with "Winds of Change," for Visionquest . That's just the beginning: read on for all of our editors' picks for the week, across tech house, electro house, deep house, dubstep, and more. Read more on Beatportal

This month, Barcelona's Galaktika Records launches a new sublabel, Gala; first up is Paulo Olarte , a familiar face from his releases on Liebe Detail, Trenton and Diynamic. "Mil Años" is a moody, stripped-down late-night cut with a tough percussive edge and downcast vocals, splitting the difference between track and song. (Fortunately, it's not nearly as creepy as the accompanying video.) Fans of Superpitcher's brand of bleary-eyed pop will be all over this. Dessous/Liebe Detail vets Goldwill give the tune a dusky rework, flecked with Rhodes and guitars, that'll sound even better in a couple months ...

Friendly Fires are set to curate a 'We Love Art' party in Paris tomorrow night (July 13th). It's been a big summer for Friendly Fires . Returning with their second album 'PALA' the band delighted fans with a typically euphoric batch of songwriting, the logical follow up to their Mercury nominated debut. Touring across the country and beyond, Friendly Fires recently showcased the album at T In The Park. Setting their sights on the continent, the band are planning a one off show in Paris tomorrow night (July 13th). Taking place at the Parc Floral, the one off night only ...

If you're looking for a getaway in late August, you may want to set your sights on Katowice, in southern Poland, for the Tauron Nowa Muzyka (Tauron New Music) festival. Located just 500 kilometers from Berlin, Katowice is a hop, skip and an EasyJet from many points in western Europe, and the lineup promises a staggering array of adventurous electronic music. Between festival openers Lamb and a closing performance from rising star Jamie Woon , you'll find many flavors of bass music, techno and electronica, including Amon Tobin , Modeselektor , Gold Panda, Seefeel, Machinedrum, Ford & Lopatin, Emika, Walls, DELS, Little Dragon, Apparat Band (live) and Spoek Mathambo. Mary Anne Hobbs presents a showcase including Darkstar , Lorn, Pearson Sound, Roska, Instra:mental, Boxcutter, Oris Jay and Ras G, while the Red Bull Music Academy stage offers a welcome dose of 4/4 action with Superpitcher , Matias Aguayo and Jacek Sienkiewicz . Mount Kimbie, meanwhile, play the official afterparty. Tauron takes place in a repurposed industrial area—between two mine shafts, in fact—in Katowice's city center; in addition to musical performances ...

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Ewan Pearson, the man-of-many-talents, describes his mix and the thinking behind it. ‘"Peal" is kind of a home-listening mix I guess, in the sense that this is the kind of thing I listen to when I'm not at work. All I knew when I started was that I didn't want to put any house or techno in it. I haven't quite kept to that original plan; there is an Isolée track in there, along with a couple of proto or ambient techno things. But it was meant to be pretty abstract or contrapuntal stuff, plenty of mood ...

Vom 22. bis 26. Juni lädt das c/o pop Festival bereits zum achten Mal die unterschiedlichsten Künstler in die Domstadt Köln ein. Beim fünftägigen Stelldichein wird den Feier-Süchtigen auf über 15 Locations und mit rund 46 Shows eine interessante Mischung aus Newcomern, Top-Acts, Szenegrößen und Geheimtipps präsentiert. Mit Künstlern wie Paul Kalkbrenner , Wir Sind Helden , Robag Wruhme , Janelle Monáe  und Apparat kann das Festival eine spannende Mischung an den Start bringen. Auf dem Poster sind ja bereits einige Künstler zu sehen, seht hier nochmal eine erweiterter Auswahl des Line-Ups: JANELLE MONÁE | OWEN PALLETT | PHILIPP POISEL | PAUL KALKBRENNER | WIR SIND ...