''Kompakt: Total 6'' or ''Total 6'' is a

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...

album released on 30 July 2005 on Kompakt.

Background

The album is the sixth installment of the

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

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microhouse Microhouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno. History Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, bitpop (both developed in the early 1990s), and house (dev ...

label'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. Unlike previous ''Total'' installments all tracks from the vinyl edition are included on the CD, which this time is expanded to a double. The CD also contains three album-only tracks.

Track listing : Vinyl Edition

A1 DJ Koze – Hicc Up (5:34) A2 Justus Köhncke – Krieg (6:50) B1 Jürgen Paape – Cream (5:55) B2 Reinhard Voigt – Ready For Take Off (6:11) C1 Aguayo/Rossknecht – Bouncin A Round (6:11) C2 Jonas Bering – Glass (6:08) D1 Superpitcher – Tell Me About It (6:56) D2 Thomas / Mayer – Panic Room (6:19)

Track listing : CD Edition

101

DJ Koze Stefan Kozalla (born 1972), better known as DJ Koze (), is a German DJ and music producer. Biography Born in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Kozalla first became known in the Hamburg music scene. In the early 1990s, he started as a rapper and DJ ...

– "Hicc Up" (5:34) 102 Dorau / Köhncke – "Durch Die Nacht (Geiger Mix)" (6:39) 103

Justus Köhncke Justus Köhncke (born 1966 in Gießen) is a German techno producer and pop musician from Cologne. Köhncke was a member of the house music, house trio Whirlpool Productions, along with Hans Nieswandt and Eric D. Clark. Together, they had a numb ...

– "Krieg" (6:50) 104 Aguayo/ Rossknecht – "Bouncin A Round" (6:11) 105 Baxendale – "I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)" (6:32) 106 Rex The Dog – "I Look Into Mid Air" (6:18) 107

Thomas Fehlmann Thomas Fehlmann (born 1957) is a Swiss composer/producer who lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been active in electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based m ...

– "Schöne Grüsse" (5:59) 108 Tocotronic – "Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen (Superpitcher/Wassermann Single Mix)" (3:56) 109 The MFA – "The Difference It Makes" (7:02) 110 Mikkel Metal – "Dorant" (6:12) 111

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 ...

– "Cream" (5:56) 112 Reinhard Voigt – "Ready For Take Off" (6:09) 201 Dirk Leyers – "Wellen" (6:24) 202

Superpitcher Aksel Schaufler better known by his stage name Superpitcher, is a German producer affiliated with Cologne's Kompakt music label. Background Superpitcher made his first appearance on Kompakt's ''Total 2'' compilation album in 2000 with the song " ...

– "Tell Me About It" (6:56) 203

Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

/ Mayer – "Panic Room" (6:23) 204 Mayer/Aguayo – "Slow" (6:18) 205 Kaito – "Hundred Million Light Years" (6:33) 206 SCSI-9 – "Mini" (6:24) 207

Jonas Bering Jonas Bering (born 9 November 1975) is a French electronic music songwriter, from Lille, France. Jonas Bering emerged from the techno scene of Cologne, Germany, through his works released on the German label Kompakt, run by Wolfgang Voigt, Mich ...

– "Glass" (6:08) 208

Ferenc Ferenc () is a given name of Hungarian origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francisco, Francesco, François, Frank and Franz. People with the name include: * Ferenc Batthyány (1497–1566), Hungarian magnate and general * Ferenc Bene (1944–20 ...

– "Tracatra" (5:27) 209 Heib – "Phönix" (5:43) 210 The Modernist – "The International Loner" (6:18) 211 Peter Grummich – "Frozen World" (5:46) 212 The Field – "Action" (6:09) Thirteen tracks on the CD are taken from previously released 12 inch singles originally released on Kompakt or sub-labels (catalogue number in parentheses): #102 (KOMPOP4); #105 (KOMPOP8); #106 (KOM102); #108 (KOMPOP7); #109 (KOMPOP5); #110 (KOM104); #201 (KOM114); #204 (KOMPOP6); #205 (KOM135); #206 (KOM101); #209 (KOM111); #211 (KOM108); #212 (KOM116). Tracks #107, #208 and #210 are exclusive to the CD edition.

External links

* 2005 compilation albums Kompakt compilation albums Record label compilation albums Microhouse albums {{2000s-techno-album-stub