''Kompakt: Total 4'' or ''Total 4'' is the fourth installment, released on 23 July 2002, of the influential

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-based

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label

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's annual

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of vinyl releases and exclusives from its biggest artists and most promising newcomers. All tracks on the vinyl edition are previously unreleased. The CD edition includes most of the tracks from the vinyl edition, and additionally some songs which were at the time of release already available on 12-inch format. (Superpitcher covers a song from

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Track listing : Vinyl Edition

* A1

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– "All Around (Everybody's Kissing)" (6:22) * A2 Freiland – "Frei" (5:40) * B1

Jürgen Paape Kompakt (Labelcode: LC 12012) is a Cologne-based electronic music independent record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno, and are known for ...

– "Mit Dir" (4:37) * B2 Schaeben &

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– "I Was A Train" (3:35) * B3

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– "Autopilot" (3:53) * C1 Reinhard Voigt – "Die Andere" (6:17) * C2

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– "Station 18" (5:59) * D1 M. Mayer – "Falling Hands" (5:54) * D2

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– "Baby's On Fire" (6:58) Tracks B2 and B3 are exclusive to vinyl version. Tracks A1 and D2 are shortened on the CD.

Track listing : CD Edition

# Thomas Fehlmann – "Making It Whistle" (6:10) #

– "Mit Dir" (4:28) # Jonas Bering – "Marine" (4:42) #

– "Baby's On Fire" (6:17) # M. Mayer – "Falling Hands" (5:54) #

– "Station 18" (5:05) # Schaeben & Voss – "The World Is Crazy" (5:45) # Freiland – "Frei" (5:40) # Reinhard Voigt – "Die Andere" (6:10) # Voigt & Voigt – "Roxy" (6:45) #

– "All Around (Everybody's Kissing)" (5:09) # Kaito – "Beautiful Day" (7:29) # Closer Musik – "Maria" (5:09) Six of the tracks on the CD are taken from previously released 12 inch vinyls originally released on Kompakt (catalogue number in parentheses): #1 (KOM51); #3 (KOM48); #7 (KOM63); #10 (Speicher 3); #12 (KOM39); #13 (KOM52). Most of those tracks appear on this compilation in shortened versions.

External links

* 2002 compilation albums Kompakt compilation albums Microhouse albums Record label compilation albums {{2000s-techno-album-stub