And There Shall Be Justus For All...
Ah, is that summer I sense? The long, lazy days and never-ending evenings? Warm air blowing aganst my face, cool beer in my hand, people with farmer's tans on the streets? Yes, it's finally upon us, and in a moment of serendipity, I stumbled across the ultimate summer track last night when I was going through a stack of old records. Taken from his 'Was Ist Musik' (What is music) album from 2002 (although the video also shows that it appeared on one of the Kompakt Total comps) this tongue in cheek yet emotive, wide-eyed slice of techno pop is a reminder that when it came to hummable ditties with a camp German swagger, for a few years, Michael Mayer's Kompakt were at the absolute top of their scarf-wearing, metrosexual game. The track's title translates into English as 'further than ever before' (if any German readers can give me a better translation, I'd love to hear it) and I'd wager that it has been a soundtrack to many ecstasy-fuelled, love at first sight encounters. I'm too lazy to figure out how to embed it on the blog, but here's a link to the YouTube video...
You know this is a cover of Jürgen Paape's song (also on Kompakt), right? Original is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJOIpqJ2VqA - I love the Köhncke cover, but maybe the original is a bit better?
Posted by: dan visel | May 12, 2009 at 08:50 AM
Ah, sweet bird of youth. Thanks for bringing back that memory. Sounds better than ever.
Posted by: Bjørn | May 12, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Dan, you beat me to it :)
An absolutely lovely tune.
Here's a lyrics translation: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=32581
Posted by: Nick | May 12, 2009 at 11:45 AM
The title track on that EP is amazing too. Justus used to be the man...
Posted by: Ronan | May 12, 2009 at 02:26 PM
used to be!? I guess he was bigger ealier on but I saw him few weeks back in Sydney to his live thing, twas great!
Posted by: shortino | May 12, 2009 at 05:14 PM
"timecode", "2 after 909" and "elan" are all totally great! haven't checked out his more recent stuff, but that aaron carl remix was one of the best things kompakt have put out in years...
Posted by: peder | May 13, 2009 at 02:45 AM
thanks for reminding me about these. man, i miss "2 after 909," need to pull that out... simply a perfect track.
Posted by: philip sherburne | May 13, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Timecode was always my favourite. One of those songs that evokes certain memories - good and bad - of a specific time in my life every time I listen to it.
Posted by: Kenny | May 15, 2009 at 05:25 AM