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I am into Minimal House, Techno, Dub, some Ambient and all the styles inbetween like Tech-House or Dub-Techno. Most of my collection is from German labels like Kompakt, scape, Force Inc., Perlon, Basic Channel.

My Top 10 of 2005:<br>
01 Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground
02 Kinny & Horne - Forgetting To Remember
03 Pier Bucci - Familia
04 Masha Qrella - Unsolved Remained
05 Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow
06 Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah
07 Marc Leclair - Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes
08 Richard Davis - Details
09 Karaoke Kalk - Kalk Seeds - A Karaoke Kalk Compilation
10 Benny Sings - I Love You

My Top 10 of 2004:<br>
01 Lucien–N–Luciano - Blind Behaviour
02 Phoenix - Alphabetical
03 Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of What Is Effortless
04 Monne Automne - Introducing Light & Sound
05 Ada - Blondie
06 Feist - Let It Die
07 Kompakt 100
08 Paul Kalkbrenner - Self
09 John Tejada & Arian Leviste - The Dot And The Line
10 Rene Breitbarth - With A Little Luck...

My Top 10 of 2003:<br>
01 Rhythm & Sound - w/ The Artists +The Versions
02 Fabric 13
03 Kompakt Speicher CD 1
04 Luomo - The Present Lover
05 Smallville
06 Johannes Heil - 20.000 Leagues Under The Skin
07 Villalobos - Alcachofa
08 Deyampert - Shapes & Colors
09 Larry Heard - Where Life Begins
10 Sustainer - Cuántico

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Recent Activity

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Sault
posted a comment on Sault. over 4 years ago
Wow, just wow. IIIII was my album of the year 2019. since then they have produced three more albums in less than two years. All containing incredible songs. I totally love their raw high energized soul sound. This must be the most productive crew out... See full review
Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground
posted a review of Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground. over 18 years ago
The Ground is an incredibly good album. It is the second release by the Tord Gustavsen Trio whom some may know as backing trio for Norwegian singer Silje Nergaard. On their own they explore Keith Jarrett territory. Their music is calm and lyrical and... See full review
Richard Davis - Details
posted a review of Richard Davis - Details. over 19 years ago
Richard Davis is the king of what I call adult oriented deep house. His first album Safety was filled with incredibly good tracks/songs and has to be regarded as a classic in this genre by now. So expectations for his follow up were high and Davis... See full review
Kinny & Horne - Forgetting To Remember
posted a review of Kinny & Horne - Forgetting To Remember. over 19 years ago
What do you do if you have ten killer tracks in your repertoire with a combined duration of just above half an hour? Take five of them, add some mediocre stuff and release two albums.

Surprisingly this has not happened here. Producer Espen Horne... See full review
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
posted a review of Massive Attack - Blue Lines. over 19 years ago
Just listened to that album again for the first time in about three years. It immediately got me again. A timeless masterpiece that deservedly entered several alltime-best-album-charts. The genre it defined (trip hop) is more or less dead by now, but... See full review
Love Joys - Lovers Rock Reggae Style
posted a review of Love Joys - Lovers Rock Reggae Style. over 20 years ago
A stunning album. Very soulful dub-tracks with lovely female vocals, great songwriting and good production. What else do you want? Highly recommended.
Hans Nieswandt - Lazer Muzik
posted a review of Hans Nieswandt - Lazer Muzik. over 20 years ago
Better than anything he released with Whirlpool Productions. No need anymore to ruin an album by being trashy and intellectual at the same time. On his own Hans Nieswandt has produced a very mature and entertaining House album with lots of good tracks.
Various - Pop Ambient 2004
posted a review of Various - Pop Ambient 2004. over 20 years ago
I know a few people who bought some of the Kompakt Pop Ambient releases (including me). All of them say that they are not really convinced by these CDs, rarely listen to them and only bought them because they are on Kompakt. So to me the Pop Ambient... See full review
Faithless - No Roots
posted a review of Faithless - No Roots. over 20 years ago
You may be a bit sceptical seeing a new Faithless album in 2004. Their trancy house sound seems to be outdated. Can this still be relevant?

Well, it immediately got me. With LSK Faithless have found a new vocalist (in addition to Maxi Jazz who is... See full review
Deyampert - Shapes & Colors
posted a review of Deyampert - Shapes & Colors. over 20 years ago
The cover somehow led me to expect a reggae album. Well, it is not. Instead it is a relaxed, soulful and very song-oriented downtempo album. The Sweetest Delusion sounds like Sade, the rest of the tracks has a more individual style. Not much... See full review
Pet Shop Boys - Alternative
posted a review of Pet Shop Boys - Alternative. over 20 years ago
This is a collection of Pet Shop Boys B-sides from 1985 to 1995 (originally intended to be called "Besides"). While some groups only use remixes or garbage on b-sides the Pet Shop Boys always had the claim to deliver tracks that are worth the money.... See full review
Various - Kompakt 100
posted a review of Various - Kompakt 100. over 20 years ago
Kompakt celebrates its 100th release with this marvelous double CD packed with quality tracks. After lots of ambient stuff and a mediocre superpitcher album this is a very welcome return to form and easily the best Kompakt release for over a year.... See full review
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Lovers
posted a review of The Legendary Pink Dots - The Lovers. over 20 years ago
This album contains two of the best tracks the Legendary Pink Dots ever made. The piano-based ballad "The Lovers (Part One)" is very atmospheric and deeply moving. 15 years after its release it is an absolute classic that has not lost one bit of its... See full review
David Bowie - Low
posted a review of David Bowie - Low. over 20 years ago
A groundbreaking album. Very experimental for the time of its release and way ahead of its time. This must be among the first electronic albums. Bowie and Brian Eno were experimenting with different ways of composing songs, miles away from... See full review
Phoenix - United
posted a review of Phoenix - United. over 20 years ago
This is an incredible album that's like a rollercoster ride through different styles. It opens with a heavy guitar riff like some hard rock pop. Then follow three of the best pop songs I know, in a row. I don't know any other album that can beat these... See full review
Various - Sushi 4004 - The Return Of Spectacular Japanese Clubpop
posted a review of Various - Sushi 4004 - The Return Of Spectacular Japanese Clubpop. over 20 years ago
As successor to the successful Sushi 3003 Compilation this CD was released when the J-Pop hype basically was over. Sadly the quality of the tracks is very disappointing. This is especially true for the better known artists Pizzicato Five and Tow Tei... See full review
Sustainer - Cuántico
posted a review of Sustainer - Cuántico. over 20 years ago
This is Dub Techno in pure Basic Channel style. Somehow you won't believe this was released in 2003 by a Spanish artist as it is so close to a sound created in Berlin years ago. Anyway, the sound has spread around the world since then and this is an... See full review
John Acquaviva - From Saturday To Sunday Volume 2
posted a review of John Acquaviva - From Saturday To Sunday Volume 2. over 20 years ago
The "Saturday"-CD is a rather uninspired and boring techno set. It starts quite promising with Der Dritte Raum but thean collapses and just sort of recovers with the last three tracks.
The "Sunday"-CD is clearly the better one. A nice house set with... See full review
Luomo - The Present Lover
posted a review of Luomo - The Present Lover. over 20 years ago
Some critics were disappointed with this CD because Luomo has stepped towards pop territory. But you just have to adore the perfection of it. Good songs, good vocals, great beats and great sound. The mastering of Moritz von Oswald (!) gives this CD a... See full review
Johannes Heil - 20.000 Leagues Under The Skin
posted a review of Johannes Heil - 20.000 Leagues Under The Skin. over 20 years ago
This is one of the rare albums that can convert people to "modern electronic music". I have played it to a friend of mine who till then had no distinctive interest in music (some R.E.M. some sondtracks) and got him really hooked up. Continued his... See full review
Various - Whereishere
posted a review of Various - Whereishere. over 20 years ago
There is a wide variety of style on this CD. Most of the time it is Electropop with a nice retrotouch. The tracks by DJ Sid and Crowdpleaser are good examples. Sadly there are also two <i>bombs</i>. With its bad rap the Ianeq track reminds me of... See full review