For the first time ever the city of Cologne has endowed a prize for exceptional achievements in pop music. Kompakt is more than honoured and proud that the "Holger Czukay Preis für Popmusik" - named after the legendary bass player of Krautrock pioneers CAN - is given to Wolfgang Voigt for his overall work that has "influenced generations of musicians". Read the full article on the Website of the city of Cologne (in german)

Zum ersten Mal vergibt die Stadt Köln einen Preis, der außergewöhnliche Leistungen im Bereich Pop Musik auszeichnet. Kompakt ist mehr als geehrt und stolz, dass der "Holger Czukay Preis für Popmusik" - benannt nach dem legendären Bassisten der Krautrock-Pioniere CAN - an Wolfgang Voigt vergeben wird. Geehrt wird er für sein allumfassendes Werk das "Generationen von Musiker*innen beinflusste". Den ganzen Artikel gibt es auf der Seite der Stadt Köln zu lesen.

'Los Lagos’ is Thomas Fehlmann's seventh solo full-length, his 4th for Kompakt following his Berlin inspired 2010 full length 'Gute Luft'. in the musician's own words it’s about "checking the juice".

Stream the first Single 'Morrislouis' now and preorder 'Los Lagos' on double vinyl + Download, Limited Edition Vinyl, CD or digital.

The Limited Edition of Total 18 not only includes all exclusive tracks but also an extra 10" with DJ Koze's remix of Matias Aguayo's 'Minimal' and Geiger's Mix of Heiko Voss' 'I Think About You' - both not available on vinyl anymore.

Total 18 will also be available as double LP version including download code, as double CD and digital formats on August 24!

Our Kompakt podcast series continues with Terranova.

TERRANOVA kicked off 2018 with a bang with ‘Cosmo EP’ (KOM378). 4 top-notch tracks showcasing the strongest outings yet in his impressive back catalogue.

This is the 45th mixtape/podcast by Terranova in his legendary pogosession series (est in 1999) featuring tracks from the forthcoming 'singularity ep' (Kompakt 389) and other upcoming releases.

FluxFM in Berlin will air this podcast exclusively in honor of our Kompakt Open Air on June 10, 2018.

We're happy to be back in Barcelona June 14-16 with our Pop Up Store set up at 33|45 (struments) in cooperation with Moritz and Brunch In Barcelona.

Find more info in the event here.

'Unblinded' is taken from Kenneth James Gibson's LP 'In The Fields Of Nothin', released in March 2018 and available here.

Staring: Chic Fojtik, Rena May Directed: Kenneth James Gibson, Travis Spencer Camera: Travis Spencer Edited: Kenneth James Gibson & Kelly Johnston-Gibson Production Assistan: Kristi Wright

Michael Mayer geht zurück zu seinen Wurzeln und wird bei WDR COSMO eine monatliche Radiosendung übernehmen. Zusammen mit Daniel Hausschild bringt er die Musik aus aller Welt zu Euch ins Wohnzimmer. Hört euch die erste Sendung vom vergangenen Wochenende hier an:

GAS returns with a new composition entitled 'RAUSCH' to be released on 2LP, CD and digitally on May 18, 2018.

The Live debut of Rausch will happen in Cologne on May 9.

We miss the days of spontaneously releasing music. Kölsch sent "Left Eye Left" to us last week and felt the need to immediately release this to the world. So without further ado...
"Left Eye Left was originally intended as a part of my 1989 album, but in myriad of demos i had for the album it got lost in the finishing process.
I rediscovered the demo just before my Eiffel Tower set, and decided it was a fitting ode to the city of love, so it was included in my set.
The reactions on the piece where so overwhelming, the only right thing to do was to release it." - KÖLSCH

Hazelium Production Directed by: Hazel Hill McCarthy III Filmed by: Douglas J. McCarthy & Hazel McCarthy III https://www.hazelium.com/

Taken from Kenneth James Gibson LP "In The Fields Of Nothing", out March 09, 2018.