VARIOUS – Pop Ambient 2025 – LP – Vinyl [DEC 6]

LP – Black Vinyl.

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 havent 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 favourite track. In the spirit of bringing all the tracks together I don’t have a favourite track, or all of them. But I have a favourite 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 Wrden. 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. Is promise without expectation. Is a path without a destination. Every year again.”

Wolfgang Voigt, October 2024

Tracklist:

A1. Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer Goldwasserfluss [06:21]
A2. Pass Into Silence Mirage [04:46]
A3. Tamarma & Sebastian Mullaert Follow Me [06:03]
A4. Sono Kollektiv feat. Nathalie Brum Periadriatische Naht [05:05]
A5. Andrew Thomas feat. Julia Parr Sunshine Night [04:04]
A6. Segensklang – Artifacts of Synthese [06:29]

B1. mit Han Im Delirium [05:21]
B2. Max Wrden Circles [07:13]
B3. Blank Gloss Jennifers Convertible [08:45]
B4. Hendrik Meyer Grn War Die Klamm [08:29]
B5. Triola Zum Renngraben [03:51]