“Nomen,” says Kompakt Records cofounder and DJ-producer Michael Mayer, “est omen.” Or in other, non-Latin words, one’s moniker is a sign of destiny. So while “Kompakt started out,” Mayer recently told ...

If Germany has dominated techno since the turn of the millennium, it’s thanks in no small part to the enduring influence of one label: the legendary Cologne-based Kompakt Records. Launched in 1998, ...

"Food is very important", declares Wolfgang Voigt as we walk past the open kitchen. It is my first time in the office of Kompakt Records, situated above their record store in Cologne, Germany’s fourth ...

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Although the new album from Kompakt Records tentpole Justus Köhncke boasts a characteristic mix of mid-tempo house, techno, disco and kitschy pop, it’s hardly a definitive statement. Save this story ...

German electronic music has long been demanding, cerebral, and, to American ears, distinctly machinelike. Even the band names, with their industrial allusions and abrasive consonants—Kraftwerk, Can, ...

As he prowled through gallery after gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, with each passing minute Wolfgang Voigt was becoming visibly agitated. The minimal techno legend and Kompakt label co-founder ...

Kehakuma can often feel like a brand and club night that's hard to pin down in character, but it is this unique selling point which makes the experience a truly unpredictable and refreshing one. The ...