Total 8
Encyclopedia
Kompakt: Total 8 or Total 8 was released on August 13, 2007. The album is the eighth installment of the Cologne
-based microhouse
label's annual compilation
of vinyl releases and exclusives from its biggest artists and most promising newcomers.
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
-based microhouse
Microhouse
Microhouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house and glitch music.-History:Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, glitch , and house genres of music. Its first echoes appeared in a glitch album by German experimental artist Oval, in 1993...
label's annual compilation
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
of vinyl releases and exclusives from its biggest artists and most promising newcomers.
Disc One
- BurgerJörg BurgerJörg Burger is a music producer who has had several releases on Kompakt as Triola, including a full length album Triola im Fünftonraum in 2004. He is also in a duo with Wolfgang Voigt.-References:*[ J. Burger AMG Biography]*[ Triola AMG Biography]...
/VoigtWolfgang VoigtWolfgang Voigt is an electronic music artist from Cologne, Germany, known for his output under various aliases on a plethora of record labels, including Warp, Harvest, Raster-Noton and Force Inc...
- "Man Lebt Nur Zweimal" (6:51) - Jürgen Paape & Boy Schaufler - "We Love" (5:40)
- SuperpitcherSuperpitcherAksel Schaufler better known by his stage name Superpitcher, is a German producer affiliated with Cologne's Kompakt music label.-Background:Superpitcher made his first appearance on Kompakt's Total 2 compilation album in 2000 with the song "Shadows"...
- "Rainy Nights In Georgia" (6:34) - Partial Arts - "Trauermusik" (7:56)
- Rex The Dog - "Every Day (5:21)
- Thomas/MayerMichael Mayer (musician)Michael Mayer is one of the key figures of Cologne, Germany's electronic music scene. Mayer is a remixer, DJ, and producer, and has released a small handful of his own singles on the Kompakt music label that he helps run with founder Wolfgang Voigt...
- "Über Wiesen" (7:04) - Jörg BurgerJörg BurgerJörg Burger is a music producer who has had several releases on Kompakt as Triola, including a full length album Triola im Fünftonraum in 2004. He is also in a duo with Wolfgang Voigt.-References:*[ J. Burger AMG Biography]*[ Triola AMG Biography]...
- "Polyform 1" (5:56) - SuperSuperpitcherAksel Schaufler better known by his stage name Superpitcher, is a German producer affiliated with Cologne's Kompakt music label.-Background:Superpitcher made his first appearance on Kompakt's Total 2 compilation album in 2000 with the song "Shadows"...
MayerMichael Mayer (musician)Michael Mayer is one of the key figures of Cologne, Germany's electronic music scene. Mayer is a remixer, DJ, and producer, and has released a small handful of his own singles on the Kompakt music label that he helps run with founder Wolfgang Voigt...
- "Two Of Us (Geiger mix)" (7:10) - Steadycam - "In The Moog For Love" (7:39)
- Nightcats - "Inside" (6:49)
- The Rice TwinsThe Rice TwinsThe Rice Twins is a Swedish techno-duo from Stockholm, formed in 2005 by Valdemar Gezelius and Jesper Engström.2006 they released the song For Penny and Alexis and EP Reach For the Flute.-External links:** MySpace-page...
- "Can I Say" (7:30)
Disc Two
- Hervé Ak - "The Closer" (8:07)
- DJ Koze - "Mariposa" (7:38)
- Reinhard Voigt - "Follow The DJ" (5:11)
- Jürgen Paape - "Nord" (5:59)
- Echo Club - "Falter" (5:52)
- Aril BrikhaAril BrikhaAril Brikha is one of the world leading Assyrian Techno musicians, he is nominated for the Best Dance album in the Swedish National radio Gold Gala award in his adopted country of Sweden.-History:...
- "Berghain" (7:09) - Gui BorattoGui BorattoGui Boratto is a Brazilian electronic music producer. In the 1990s he was a member of Sect.His album Chromophobia was awarded the title of Mixmag Album of the Month. Regarding why he chose the name Chromophobia, Boratto said: "The same meaning as monochromatism in architecture, which means...
- "Mr Decay (Robert BabiczRobert BabiczRobert Babicz is a Polish music producer, mastering engineer and live performer living in Cologne, Germany. With a career spanning nearly two decades covering genres from techno to acid house to minimal, Babicz has also been known under the pseudonyms Rob Acid, Acid Warrior, Department of Dance...
Universum Disco mix)" (7:47) - Justus KöhnckeJustus KöhnckeJustus Köhncke is a german Techno producer and pop musician from Cologne.Köhncke was a member of the house trio Whirlpool Productions, along with Hans Nieswandt and Eric D. Clark. Together, they had a number one hit in Italy in 1997 with their house track From Disco To Disco. Since 1999, he has...
- "Pickpockets" (7:04) - Broke - "Coladancer" (8:06)
- Schaeben & Voss - "Cold Wind (feat. Schad Privat)" (5:18)
- OxiaOxiaOxia may refer to:*the acute accent in polytonic Greek*Oxeia, a Greek island...
- "Not Sure" (7:58)