It started with Für Dich in 1999, the first DJ mix on Kompakt ever, which defined a very special and genuine way of compiling and arranging DJ sets as whole albums. Instead of putting together ten or fifteen banging club hits taken out of recent releases, the idea was to follow a more personal approach, focusing on a more timeless choice of music that has a certain meaning to the DJ. Something like a mix tape for a friend or a lover, combined with the way Thomas and his close fellow Michael Mayer used to d...   [ read more ]

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Tobias Thomas' mix navigates through the experimental sounds of down-tempo European minimal techno with an emphasis on the tracks similar in style to that of Kompakt. Of course, anyone familiar with Kompakt knows that these aren't your traditional dancefloor sounds, but rather a complex strain of techno more likely to induce cerebral contemplation than body jacking. In fact, this is the main dilemma faced by Thomas on this mix: how to make such quirky techno fit into the utilitarian confines of...   [ read more ]

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Smallville is Kompakt's fourth mix (fifth if you count Kompakt Extra's Speicher), and it's Tobias Thomas' second for the label. Like his 2000 mix, Fnr Dich, only a pinch more stimulating, it's full of subdued microhouse productions and a couple minor surprises from unexpected sources. You can almost sense the fact that Thomas mixed these 12 tracks in Cologne's Studio 672 while it was vacant, on a pair of analog turntables -- which is how this went down. Dance music is, by its nature...   [ read more ]

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