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With "Donnerkuppel" and its dramatically beautiful ethereal hookline Robag resets the focus firmly on the floor.

It's with the arrival of Looping State Of Mind that you finally realise that, for The Field's ambient techno explorer Axel Willner, the loop never stops. While fans and critics alike point to 2007's phenomenal debut From Here We Go Sublime - included in Pitchfork's Top 100 albums of the 2000s - and 2009's equally stirring follow up Yesterday & Today as standalone points of the Swede's music; it becomes clear that they appear as mere snapshots of what, for the producer, is a continual cycle of revolutions.

What a year 2010 was for Walls.. not content with signing to the prestigious Kompakt label, the shimmering shoegaze electronica of their debut self titled album went on to receive glowing critical acclaim including Mojo's coveted Electronic Album Of The Year (beating out Caribou, Matthew Dear and LCD Soundsystem no less), 4/5 in The Guardian, 9/10 in NME (as well as featuring in their albums of the year), iDJ, Vice and more superlatives from Groove, DJ mag and a host of blogs and websites.

Rainbow Arabia have been one Kompakt's most endearing acts to
work with us in years. The husband and wife duo Danny and
Tiffany Preston started our year out with the genre-defying full
length 'Boys And Diamonds' which went on to become one our
most acclaimed releases of recent time - the Los Angeles Times
went so far as to proclaim 'Rainbow Arabia are L.A.'s new electro
heroes' in a recent feature.

TERRANOVA are hardly a new name on the scene. FETISCH, its
leader has lived on the international nightlife circuit since punk took
over London.

Onesided 12" with the extended ACTRESS Remix and a beautiful etching on the other side ...

Averse to any easy classification, Rainbow Arabia's continent-trekking, kaleidoscope pop is rooted in no particular time or place, employing modern technological processes to an array of musical cultures and eras.

Jatoma are all about the unknown and though they are new amongst us they remain cloaked in paradoxes and already questioned by many.

Kompakt welcomes an old friend and new face to our fold. Berlin based with Parisian tastes, Sebastien Bouchet is groomed to be our most charming producer for the coming year. A regular in the DJ scene for years now with releases for Freak n' Chic and Hypercolour, we bring him to our family with his first 12" single for us - "Fallen Angel".

Mugwump's Geoffroy and Kolombo have been on a continuous roll since we heard them last year on Kompakt with their genre defying breakthrough 12" single "Fears Inc.".

WALLS are a band from London made up of members Sam Willis (of ALLEZ-ALLEZ) and Alessio Natalizia (of BANJO OR FREAKOUT).

POP AMBIENT returns...and beyond the usual anticipation, for a cause. We celebrate a decade of annual bliss with POP AMBIENT 2010!

"Rollerskate" is the first single from Matias Aguayo's tremendously ambitious full length "AY AY AY" on Kompakt.

Er hat es wieder getan... seiner eigenen Tradition treu bleibend, dem synthetischen Ende von Disco ein modernes Denkmal nach dem anderen zu setzen, schafft auch "Don't go" diesen Spagat zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft, zwischen Glückseeligkeit und gnadenloser Abstraktion..