This summer the Terry's Café compilation should be named Terry's Coffee maybe? - Just kidding. But Terry Lee Brown Junior and Plastic City wanted to do something different this year and decided to release a double CD package with two different tech house styles: Mild Roast and Strong Roast – Mild Roast for pleasure and Strong Roast for character.

In the Mild Roast DJ-Mix Terry presents gentle tracks with the right flavor it needs to work on the dancefloor too. Effected by a joyfully looseness the mix swings between breezy fulfillment and jazzy liberality. Therefore tracks by Paralelles, Tini, Aland Byallo, J. Axel, Aki Bergen, Basti Pieper, Kruse & Nuernberg, Gorge, Tojami Sessions, Greg Parker, The Timewriter, Lukas Greenberg feat. Nica Brooke and Martin Buttrich give their best. Terry Lee Brown Junior created a well balanced DJ-Mix that is as agile and clever like a...[ read on ]

Chris Coco has created a wonderful set of tunes on Feel Free Live Good. After multiple adventures with the band City Reverb, DJ’ing for Robbie Williams, and his usual circuit of global DJ dates, compilations, mixes and radio shows Coco took some time out. He spent a few months preparing these musical delights at 99, his studio in Camden, London. With the help of a laptop, a microphone, some very old synths and a bunch of good friends Feel Free Live Good was born. It was a very relaxed process, friends would pop in and lay down vocals and musical parts for Coco to manipulate and process. “It’s amazing what you can get people to do for a bowl of pasta and a couple of glasses of Rioja,” reflects Coco on the laidback but fruitful recording experience. Though the music ranges from deep house to ambient to chillout to dub it is all held together by an atmospheric, almost romantic feel...[ read on ]

For those unaware, Duncan Stump (Mock) & Nick Woolfson (Toof) are two of the UK's most creative music producers. Having made a name for themselves via 12" releases on DFA and their own Tiny Sticks imprint; the pair have forged a reputation for brilliantly off-kilter, disco-fuelled house grooves that are laced with originality. Having notched up an impressive amount of releases / remixes in recent years, there's no denying that Mock & Toof know a thing or two about making people dance, but what does a Mock & Toof LP sound like? You may be surprised... With one listen to the album, you'll soon realise where they're coming from. Boasting nine songs within the thirteen tracks that make up the LP, Including the first single "Farewell To Wendo", "Tuning Echoes" is the sound of two producers coming of age. Citing Roxy Music and David Byrne as major influences, the duo spent over a year in...[ read on ]

This guy's got a short name, but a really heavy sound - one that's got a great blend of beats, keys, and samples at its core - all served up with a crispy, old school funky sound! 45's approach is a bit like that of Ino Hidefumi - in that he covers older territory with a slightly updated groove, mixing older keyboard funk with a hip hop sensibility. But the sound here is also different than Hidefumi too - given that a number of cuts are more soul/R&B in nature - and occasionally feature guest vocals to flesh out the tunes. 45's groove is also a bit more wide-ranging too - not just older styles, but a range of rhythms that include bits of contemporary soul and hip hop, and which point to his work with the group Izanami - all modes that inflect the keyboards differently from track to track. About 5 of the album's 13 tracks feature vocals, the others are all instrumentals.

Since many years now Milk & Sugar release their "Summer Sessions" compilation, just when the summertimes begin, with the most requested tracks from their DJ sets. The two internationally renowned DJs created a CD with a perfect flow for a hot club night or a long lasting party under the stars with a great feeling for housegrooves and their typical sound. With their connections to their DJ collegues, Milk & Sugar are also proud to present some tracks that have never been compiled to any compilation before! A compilation, that reaches from funky summer grooves to deep and groovy techhouse tunes. A very typical Milk & Sugar style!

Greek seaside club Cavo Paradiso is consistently rated as one of Europe’s top clubbing destinations, and while listening to one of their double CDs in sunny London isn’t quite on the same level, it’s still a rather pleasant summer experience. Japanese hero Satoshi Tomiie and Moon Harbour Recordings boss Mathias Tanzmann are given the controls for this compilation. From his proggy styles of old there remains some hangover in Tomiie’s sound – dreamy, dainty, hypnotic vibes run through the mix, but are bolstered by some straight up grooving too. Feygin’s low-slung B Local provides a stomping anchor to push and pull against after a hazy first quartet, while it’s left to Phillipp’s moody Federation to bring some drama and engrossing live percussion into the mix. The next couple of tracks pass by a bit unnoticed, but Dani Casarano & Felipe Valenzuela’s glorious Tony Sonny is an absolute...[ read on ]

TOTAL 11 - the time has come and we are now into the double digits. It's a privilege to think that its now over 12 years ago that we, KOMPAKT remain still not only as we started as a record store and label but also a distribution home for over 40 record labels, booking agency for our proud family of DJ's and acts, plus a publishing and management house. We have grown, our family certainly has as well and our annual collection of music and of course the Total parties have become an institution of what our fans expect year after year. We consider ourselves lucky and in these times and with this 26 track collection in particularly… The plot thickens with Total 11 - a year where many newcomers and familiar faces converge on a yellow dotted road and in many case this year, collaborating. Take Brazil's Gui Boratto who teams up with drummer Iggor Cavalera (ex-Sepultura) to come up with...[ read on ]

The first mix CD capturing the vibe of Germany's most succesful dubstep night SUB:STANCE which is held in Berlin's Berghain. It's the first mix CD of the dubstep pioneer Scuba which is commercially available. 24 tracks, including unreleased tracks by Mala, Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie, Ramadanman, Scuba and others. SUB:STANCEis the collision of two worlds – the vitality of UK bass music intertwined with Berghain and all it's sensory exhilaration and unique atmosphere. The party started in July 2008 when an array of dubstep's finest exponents first brought the world’s most exciting sound to its most talked-about club. Since then the concept has become fully formed with curators Paul Rose (aka Scuba) and Paul Fowler (Spymania Records) picking lineups covering the full spectrum of the burgeoning bass music scene, including Martyn, The Bug, Joker, Neil Landstrumm and many more, that have...[ read on ]

Ever since the release of his first cassette on the renowned and legendary Cologne-based label Entenpfuhl in 1993, Jo Zimmermann aka Schlammpeitziger grants an international audience insights into his private cosmos. The musician, graphic artist and tireless inventor of increasingly strange song titles with a ribald as well as subtle humour has been coining a highly distinctive style for these last 15 years. On his new album he demonstrates how to combine artistic development and remaining true to oneselves' style. On "Schwingstelle für Rauschabzug", Schlammpeitziger discovers deep frequencies and pulsating beats. And all of a sudden, his tried and tested combination of eloquent melodies (which more often than not seem to lead a life of their own) and lively rhythms acquires a completely new pull. With this album, Jo Zimmermann pulses his listeners (and surely himself) into...[ read on ]

plus49 have been regarded as “phenomenon on standby” for years. They are part of the new generation of artists who have as many hands as possible in as many different plays as possible. Since 2002 they have recorded multiple Electronic-Alternative-Pop albums (All The Beautiful Things, Hymn Without Country, Integrity and Injury), published radio plays or created music- and video setups, e.g. in 2003 for the Gasometer in Oberhausen (The night of angels). They shot artistic movies (pollyDAYS) and developed sound designs for cell phones, TV stations and the sound of the gong for the Cologne-Bonn airport. Plus49 also won the Midem NetAward for the best Online Event in Cannes. Their music, performances and productions range somewhere between Pop and Avantgarde. plus49 started out as a project and have ultimately transformed into a full-blown band with traditional cast (guitar, bass guitar,...[ read on ]

After his latest three digital releases on Plastic City. Play and the outstanding “All Good Things EP” on vinyl last year, Greg Parker just published his first album “10 Solutions” in spring 2010 on Plastic City. It contains already a dub version of the final track “Get High”. Therefore now here comes the release of the original version with remixes by Terry Lee Brown Junior and Voltan. You will be surprised how energetic and powerful the original version will infiltrate your veins. With “Get High” Greg Parker created a very funky and stomping tech house track that developes enormously during its 9:44 minutes runtime. Beats and basses are changing constantly it seems. Percussions seem to accrue but stay diaphanous magically the hole time. The vocals unfurl an absolutely hypnotic effect. Great track, great feeling. Terry Lee Brown Junior who had already two releases on Plastic City....[ read on ]

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The German phrase “Katze im Sack” describes a new idea for our shop. The Americans are using the phrase "Grab Bag", English people know it as “Lucky Bag” We pick 10 of our 14,95€ (or higher) sale CD’s and sell them to you all in all for 50€ But just like the Grab Bag you may know from Kindergarten, you don't get to know what's in the bag. You're getting a surprise. It might be a CD you have always wanted, it might be a disc you have never heard of, it might be one you already own that you can give to a friend. Who knows! That's part of the surprise. The titles are from our Sale Page and contain CD’s from the labels fine Audio Recordings, Harthouse, Compressed, Womb, Malec and the Lärm series. We pack all Grab Bag’s indivial – No Grab Bag will be the same like the Grab Bag before!

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