Supermayer ‎– Save The World

Absolutely horrid from start to finish. Seriously, what is it with Kompakt? Can someone tell me why they are so adored and love when they can try to pull shit off like this? Yeah okay, maybe I'm not being 'fair' here, maybe I'm overlooking what Kompakt has done for artists within the realm of minimal tech and ambient. But believe me when I say this: This album is horrible. I find it hard to believe that artists who have been making music for a long time can take 3492739573 steps backwards in sound design and music composition yet take themselves seriously. Oh wait, they don't take themselves seriously. Look at the cover! Oh those ridiculous jokesters and their superhero costumes! They are just fun loving guys and god forbid I take music seriously.

Here's something though: having your music fun and lighthearted is no excuse to make it horribly produced and stupid. It's almost unfathomable how people haven't figured this out, and how easily music journalists dismiss this entirely because they have absolutely no clue about how to produce so it 'must not be important'. Or maybe they have, I don't know. Maybe they are just too caught up in their own momentum to take a step back and go 'Hey, these tracks could be better.' I'd avoid this at all costs unless you like to slap the progression of music in the face by cheering over an hour's worth of insidiously boring electronic music.

I don't understand why people hate this album so much? i'm reading reviews on discogs and even Pitchfork has given it a... 3/10 rating I think?

This whole album is really really different stuff than earlier tracks by either Superpitcher or Michael Mayer, but this album has a nice funky crisp sound to it. Funky 4/4 drumloops which can make this album comparable to bands like Hot Chip, maybe some LCD Soundsystem, and who knows what else? I do really like what they are doing and how they are approaching their sound. This album even has the Superpitcher / Michael Mayer techno roots too which gives this album a nice variety.

I don't know how people don't like this? But I guess for Kompakt and this being a Super/Mayer project, it totally gives off a pop music feeling vibe for some tracks. But hey, I mean, hasn't Kompakt released stuff like this before?

I have to sadly agree with the above review. This is one of the few albums from Kompakt I disliked almost at its entirety. Seriously, I don't get how an album like this could be released by the same label which gave us The Field, Closer Musik, Thomas Fehlmann and Kaito.

At first I thought it was a bad joke, but listening to the entire record made me almost puke. The production is terrible, it lacks soul, it lacks emotion and suffers from a complete lack of spontainety. This is a boring and cheesy record by two persons who use to produce relatively good tunes & remixes (Aksel being better than Mayer on the rmx/producing department I have to say).

This is probably the first time I have rated an album on discogs with 1 point, and I did this because I happen to like much of the earlier works of Mayer & Superpitcher (separately) and it really deserves one point compared both to the earlier Kompakt catalog and their personal productions.