For everybody who is interested to know what K2 is, here are some words by Michael Mayer about it.

For everybody who is interested to know what K2 is, here are some words by Michael Mayer about it.

K2 is a new Kompakt offshoot or better said a "retention pond" for so much great music we get sent by newcomers and established artists likewise. The mothership Kompakt's schedule is absolutely full with the string of albums to come and a few 12"s in between. What's missing is enough slots for classic
Kompakt-style minimal techno ep's - which is unbearable for us...

There are already 4 releases lined up on K2.
1. Steadycam- Ding - Steadycam is a swedish newcomer. Ding is his first release and I love it! 4 tracks meandering between profan-ish sample-based
minimal and kicking state of the art techno. Great discovery - if you ask me...

2. Hug - The angry ghost - Hug also releases as Huggotron and under his real name John Dahlbäck... Some of the best stuff he did so far...

3. Robert Babicz - tba - I played these two tracks on every festival and they are devastatingly good..

4. Gui - tba - another strong newcomer from Brazil!

More info: www.kompakt-net.de

(source: Michael Mayer)