Various - Pop Ambient 2012

Kompakt’s beloved series returns, POP AMBIENT remains one of the most endearing and anticipated series in modern
electronic music.

* Features an all star cast of familiar favorites . Brand new music from WOLFGANG VOIGT (aka GAS), TRIOLA (aka
JÖRG BURGER), MARSEN JULES, SUPERPITCHER, bvdub, and the new alter-ego from THE FIELD , LOOPS OF
YOUR HEART.
*“Even though it's rooted in stasis, ambient music is always evolving. The German label Kompakt, an authority in the
field, has driven both its evolution and the entrenchment of certain habits in the last decade.”– PITCHFORK

POP AMBIENT 2012 begins in an unusually new but nevertheless somehow familiar fashion. MOHN with MANIFESTO
is the opening act. A manifest of slowness. A slowness that Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt have taken up as new
mission. MOHN is their new ambient-grunge-down-beat project, scheduled to depart on its official musical journey to
Middle Earth early 2012. What follows is equally surprising: the old KOMPAKT swashbuckler SUPERPITCHER is taking
part for the very first time. His piece JACKSON is borne by a slightly uncanny, spherical voice floating above a jazzy pop
accord coolness and faintly 70ies sequencer aesthetics. It is followed by a familiar face from past times who is making
an anonymous return on KOMPAKT under his new pseudonym MOREK. PAN is a textbook example of a classical piece
of pop ambient music. Timeless elegance. MAGAZINE, the “krauty“ electronic guerrilla from Cologne-Deutz, has tailored
the piece THE VISITORS BUREAU we all know from Magazine 4 into a measure-made ambient frock.

* Then comes Jörg “TRIOLA“ Burger with a solo appearance. His multifaceted, intricately woven Arabian Nights-style
sounds, with effectively placed harmonic shifts reminiscent of Pink Floyd in the best of their phases, indicate why the
piece RICHMODIS was named after an old Cologne saga.

* Enter the Pope of Ambient: WOLFGANG VOIGT masterfully continues his impressive creative ambient frenzy in
RÜCKVERZAUBERUNG 5, not by stagnating on the usual planes but by further developing his new concept into a
novel direction of abstract jazz. BVDUB is taking part for the third time – for a good reason. The Dutchman, who lives
in China, leaves nothing to be desired with his sensitive musical signature, over and over again. Likewise, MARSEN
JULES constantly refines his bizarre, flickering sound constructions and even adds percussion drums that are atypical
for ambient. SIMON SCOTT is a newcomer to POP AMBIENT but certainly no unknown face. The Englishman already
impressed the scene a while ago on the Miasmah label. His contribution “ For Martha“ is a particularly good piece of
classical pop ambient music that fits into this year’s compilation like an homage. A relaxing final appearance is provided
by a good friend of the house: Axel“The Field“Willner alias LOOPS OF YOUR HEART charms us with a light-footed,
pleasantly filled guitar loop tempting us to press the Start button at the end of the CD/records

Tracks:

01/A1 Mohn – Manifesto / 02/A2 Superpitcher – Jackson / 03/A3 Morek – Pan / 04/A4 Magazine – The Visitor’s Bureau
(Magazine Edit) / 05/B2 Triola – Richmodis / 06/B1 Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung 5 / 07/B3 bvdub – Your Loyalty
Lies Long Forgotten / 08/A5 Marsen Jules – Swans Reflecting Elephants / 09/B4 Simon Scott – For Martha
10/B5 Loops Of Your Heart – Riding The Bikes

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