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Connecting The Dots

by Tobias Thomas

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The third edition of CONNECTING THE DOTS comes from one of Kompakt‘s most inner circle and a purveyor of the Sound Of Cologne, Tobias Thomas. He remains a treasure to the Cologne music community, perhaps most notably as the host and resident of the now legendary Total Confusion club nights (1998-2014). His emotive DJ sets were the main ingredient in the parties enchanting elixir, an ever changing concoction of styles and sounds that would bring people together from Cologne and all over the world. As a producer, he was a member of the formulative techno-boy-band Forever Sweet (together with Reinhard Voigt and Michael Mayer) and can be found regularly on our TOTAL series collaborating with Michael Mayer as Thomas/Mayer. He has also released three DJ mix albums "Für Dich“ (1999), "Smallville“ (2003) and "Please Please Please“ (2007) – all on Kompakt.

Tobias Thomas takes a classic approach to telling his story of Kompakt, and expertly navigates the mix through 19 moments in the label's history. He starts with the deep space vacuum of Marcus Schmickler’s “Particle/Matter” (2019 – KOM 407) to very early days of Pop Ambient with Marcus Guentner’s “In Moll 6” (2001 – KOM 042), Gregor Schwellenbach’s piano interpretation of Kaito’s “Everlasting” (2013 – KOM 275) and “Fearsome Jewel 5” by Andrew Thomas (2003 - KOM 086). With Sascha Funke’s remix of the Superpitcher classic "Rabbits In A Hurry" (2010 - KOM D 009), Tobias then opens the treasure chest from which he tells his very personal interpretation of the label's "golden age" - an era that could perhaps be interpreted as Kompakt's most romantic period. Over the next 70 minutes, he weaves a string of pearls from DJ Koze's bonus mix of "Bobby" (2006 - KOM 136) to SCSI-9's "Mini" (2004 - KOM 101), Steadycam's "In The Moog For Love" (2007 - K2 25) to the blissful swoon of Jimmi Moon's "Lovelane" (2000 - KOM 020) and tops it off with an almost forgotten summer anthem like Michael Mayer's remix of Baxendale's "I Built This City" (2005 - KOM POP 8).

The last track is by none other than Superpitcher, one of Tobias’ closest friends and the uncrowned master of melancholic techno who makes 3 appearances in this mix. His haunting ballad “Holiday Hearts” (2010 – KOM 222) is a more than fitting last caress by a masterful storyteller.

CONNECTING THE DOTS is our new monthly DJ Mix series that invites our favourite DJs to have access to our 15k + track catalogue of the Kompakt family of labels and tell their own interpretation of our musical history. Beyond that, we see this as our way to voice the need for artists' music used in DJ mixes should be paid for their tracks being used – and we challenge others to bring to streaming platforms more mixes as an alternative away from the constant tsunami of free / illegal DJ mixes online.

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released May 14, 2021

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Tobias Thomas Cologne, Germany

Tobias Thomas is a DJ, producer and member of the inner circle of the Cologne based label Kompakt since the early nineties. Between 1998 and 2014 he was hosting the »Total Confusion«-Clubnight in Cologne. He released 3 Mix-CDs, »Für Dich« (1999), »Smallville« (2003) and »Please Please Please« (2007) and with Forever Sweet the album »Geben & Nehmen« (1998). ... more

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