Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2025 [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: KompaktCD185 
Barcode: 4250101473500
Release Date: 06 Dec 2024
Genre: Pop Ambient/Electronic

Hello Everybody,

In recent years, the introductory texts for the Pop Ambient compilation series, which is released every year on Kompakt as the last release before the Christmas break, often began with the sentence "Every year again...".

“Every year again”, a quiet, almost unnoticed maxim of self-evidentness. Because this is already the 25th issue to be published this year.

25 years in increasingly fast-moving times in the even faster-moving music business is an eternity that doesn't just feel like it. It is all the more remarkable how I, as someone who is always restless and often driven by this fast pace himself, pleasantly almost haven’t realised how - in pop-ambient contexts - time does not pass (or passes differently) in the best sense.

When compiling the 25th edition I was asked, among other things, what it was like that I was still doing this and whether I had a favorite track. In the spirit of bringing all the tracks together I don't have a favorite track, or all of them. But I have a favorite part (moment) that I played.

In this case it was a broad chord in a change of key at minute 2:55 in the piece Circles by Max Würden. A moment of majesty and familiarity that, at that moment, contains the entire Pop Ambient cosmos, that just works and doesn't explain anything - and I said: “...that's the reason why I'm still doing this.. .”

Pop Ambient is a statement without demands. It is a promise without expectation. A path without a destination.         
Every year again.

Wolfgang Voigt, October 2024

CD Tracklisting 
1 Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer ‘Goldwasserfluss’ 00:06:21 2 Pass Into Silence  ‘Mirage’ 00:04:46 3 Tamarma & Sebastian Mullaert ‘Follow Me’ 00:06:03 4 Sono Kollektiv feat. Nathalie Brum  ‘Periadriatische Naht’ 00:05:05 5 Thore Pfeiffer ‘Phase Locked Loop 1’ 00:05:43 6 Andrew Thomas feat. Julia Parr ‘Sunshine Night’            00:04:04 7 Segensklang  ‘Artifacts of Synthese’ 00:06:29 8 Ümit Han ‘Im Delirium’                00:05:21 9 Würden & Schäfer  ‘Analysis Of Variance II’ 00:06:55 10 Max Würden                        ‘Circle’ 00:07:13 11 Blank Gloss ‘Jennifer’s Convertible’ 00:08:45 12 Hendrik Meyer ‘Grün War Die Klamm’ 00:08:29 13 Triola‘Zum Renngraben’ 00:03:51 14 Jens-Uwe Beyer  ‘In Defense Of Symbolic Value 1’  00:06:12

More From This Artist: Andrew Thomas Blank Gloss Hendrik Meyer Jens-Uwe Beyer Julia Parr Leandro Fresco Max Würden Nathalie Brum Pass Into Silence Sebastian Mullaert Segensklang Sono Kollektiv Tamarma Thore Pfeiffer Triola Würden & Schäfer Ümit Han