Todd Burns and Michael F. Gill- Kompakt (The Year In Review), [Utopia Burns]
In our continuing series of podcasts on Friday, today we bring a slight twist on the format that we’ve presented so far. Stylus writer Michael F. Gill and I worked out the technical difficulties of recording off the phone and had an hour plus long coversation about one of our favorite record labels of the year. As one of our first conversations ever, I think it went pretty well after the first few minutes of general nervousness, etc., although my heavy breathing is kind of annoying (perhaps only to my sensitive ears).
Michael was kind enough to play DJ, providing samples from each and every release that the label put out this year and we both weighed in. While I think Michael and I would both agree that this wasn’t the best year in the label’s history, the sheer breadth of material released and quality maintained made it a worthy subject of discussion. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
[visit and buy things from Kompakt’s website here]
December 17th, 2004 at 7:47 am
Forgot who posted the link to this originally, but listen to this great interview with rex the dog
http://www.rexthedog.net/interview.mp3
He sounds different from Mr.Miller.
I sent a link to your show to a German friend, and he laughed a lot.
Loved the accents and pronunciations.
Please can you cover some Dutch, Finnish, Italian, French and Swiss music for my personal entertainment?
I hope you take this all in the good humour I mean it.
Cheers
20jazzfunkStuart
December 17th, 2004 at 8:05 am
I’ve put up a higher quality version (128 K, 68 MB) up over here if anyone with a higher connection wants it:
http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=CF9BDAAA1B1315E196B9847624AB6235
Although at this very moment Yousendit seems to be down.
December 17th, 2004 at 12:32 pm
I think it’s pronounced “KUHN-kuh”?
great work.
December 19th, 2004 at 7:20 am
this is a lot of fun.
who says american youth is oblivious to the rest of the world? “he’s spanish. i think he’s spanish. he could be french.”
were you lads stoned or was there a really fascinating, mute glove puppet show going on in the studio at the time? (i.e. all the laughing). its infectious, so i’m not complaining.
“what are you laughing at dave?”
“these guys laughing”
good job, angels.
or whatever it is they say in canada. no, america. no wait, canada. nope, definitely, um, america. yes.
D 9 F
December 19th, 2004 at 4:59 pm
Laughing is my form of enthusiasm, David - I totally understand how I could sound stoned though…
December 20th, 2004 at 9:02 pm
i dug the banter (and especially laughter) with mr. gill. fav comment - “grunt like a rhino” and the fruity loops w/ voigt makes too much sense and none at the same time.
todd - i’d suggest putting a thin cloth between the mic and your mouth to cut out a lot of the breathing.
and i think it is “spiker” but americans are too gutteral, so “ke” should be made at the end of the tongue. but the disclaimer was great…