Kompakt
Compact is an internationally successful record label for electronic music in Cologne.
To label also includes a record store in the Werderstraße in Cologne, a sales agency and an artist.
History
Compact goes back to a record store, which was established on 1 March 1993 ( under the name of Delirium ) by Wolfgang Voigt and his brother Reinhard Voigt, Jörg Burger and Jürgen Paape. In early 1998, this changed to compact and founded the eponymous label as a summary of various existing smaller labels ( Profane, Studio 1).
Owners today are Wolfgang Voigt, Jürgen Paape and Michael Mayer.
Style
Compact has been and is internationally associated with a particular brand of minimal techno, the designated lot of media as Sound of Cologne. Although now quite diverse styles of electronic music appear on Kompakt - from abstract- experimental tracks, to vocal pieces with pop elements ( Justus Köhncke ) - is compact understood still as techno label (Wolfgang Voigt in an interview in 2003: 51% to compact must be techno. Otherwise, anything goes. ).
The claim of the label is to make innovative and polarizing music and still have economic success; especially for plates in which it comes to be right, not for sale, as Voigt once said. Despite experimentation and emphasis is placed on functional dance music and DJs as a buyer target group, which was funded by the weekly party series Total Confusion in Cologne Club Studio 672, with the compact co-owner Michael Mayer from 1998 to June 30, 2006 as a DJ together Tobias Thomas operational. The party series will now be held every month in Cologne sheet 2. Most releases still appear on vinyl, CDs often take a number of previously published Maxis together. The corporate identity of compact came from the Langzeitweggefährtin Bianca Bush, who now lives after several stays abroad in Hamburg and works.
Well-known artists
In addition to the label founders and holders among others, the following artists have released on Compact and its sub-labels:
- Axel Bartsch
- Jonas Bering
- Gui Boratto
- Thomas Fehlmann
- The Field
- Sascha Funke
- Peter Grummich
- Markus Güntner
- GusGus
- Kitbuilders
- Justus Köhncke
- The Modernist
- Kaito
- DJ Koze
- Kölsch
- Mikkel Metal
- Schaeben & Voss
- The Orb
- Tom Pooks
- Rex the Dog
- SCSI -9
- Steadycam
- Superpitcher
- Gebr Teichmann
- T.Raumschmiere
- Heiko Voss
- WhoMadeWho
- Wighnomy Brothers
- Zombie Nation
Sublabels
- Profane (already established in 1993, until today in sporadic episode publications)
- Studio 1 A 1995-1997 published, influential series of ten experimental minimalist 12 " maxis by Wolfgang Voigt. Unnamed and only by the different colored labels of the plates distinguishable
- Buoyancy. First published in 1996
- The field. Six 12 "by Wolfgang Voigt, published 1998/99
- Gyro 99 A series of 52 7 " singles that 1999 on a weekly basis as" published Countdown " on the millennium
- Memory (aka compact extra ). A 2002 series started driving 12 " maxis, which are among the compact publications with the highest sales figures. Adler logo uses the Cologne coat of arms.
- Compact Pop
- K2
- Always
Distribution
About Compact, among others, the following other labels are sold: K2 ( Cologne), Playhouse (Frankfurt), Areal ( Berlin), transmitter ( Berlin), Freude am Tanzen (Jena), Italic (Cologne), Traum Schallplatten (Cologne), trapeze ( Cologne ) Found sound (Philadelphia ), Boxer ( Cologne), Kickboxer (Cologne), Musik Krause (Jena), CMYK (Madrid ), Orac (Seattle ), paradigm (Barcelona), Glimpse (London), Ostgut recordings ( Berlin), Soniculture (Porto), Anticipate (New York), Fuel ( Cologne), Dial ( Hamburg ), Sports Club (Hannover), Stattmusik ( Zurich ), Pro - Tez (Moscow ) Echocord (Copenhagen), Defrag sound Processing (Milan), Firm (Cologne), apnea (Madrid ), Mule Electronic ( Tokyo), Pom Pom ( Faroe Islands / Berlin ) Nursing home (Berlin), Vidab Records ( Berlin), m = minimum (Berlin) and FM ( Munich).