Kompakt Total 21 (2021)

TOTAL turns 21 this year, and Kompakts venerable compilation series couldnt have asked for a more auspicious coming-of-age collection. If Total 20 was consolidation against the odds, the Kompakt crew producing for a dreamt-of dancefloor in an uncertain future. Throughout, it feels as though Kompakt are taking a moment to both breathe in the dust of the past and look forward to a bright future. Perhaps thats why, on Fasson, Sascha Funke seems so confident, with pinprick melodies bouncing around a hall of audio mirrors, or why The Bionaut returns with Blue Sky Motor Lodge, a song so moistly melancholy, so enduringly lovely, itll make you weep tears of joy. Robag Wruhme gets a little delirious on the ticking, twisting No, and then Gui Boratto mops everything up with the bubbling, bumping glam-stomp Wake Up.
Kompakt: Total 21 (2021)
Techno, Peak Time, Driving, Experimental, Minimal, Deep Tech, Jackin, Electronica | Kompakt Germany, Kompakt Records