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KOM 489LP
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$30.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 4/11/2025
Originally released on CD only, Triola im Fünftonraum counts as one of the most iconic albums of the early Kompakt era. Experience this timeless masterpiece of lush electronica lovingly restored and remastered for the first time on vinyl -- 21 years after its inception. This review from back in the days that perfectly sums up what Triola im Fünftonraum is all about: "The press material for Triola im Fünftonraum made allusions to home listening, when the album is mostly about movement -- in a car -- preferably a fast one -- on a muggy spring day. This might catch followers of producer Jörg Burger off guard. Up until this point, the producer's Triola tracks -- limited to three consecutive appearances on Kompakt's yearly Pop Ambient series and a spot on 'Leichtes Hören Teil 1' -- were free-floating ambient washouts (albeit wondrous free-floating ambient washouts) with no pulse. The album, on the other hand, is beat-driven. Though still resolutely ambient -- more an update of Burger's lushest Bionaut tracks, only fully engaging instead of mildly diverting. The soft, synthetic hand drums and tranquil vapors of 'Leuchtturm' from Pop Ambient 2003, remain untouched and begin the album. Two other tracks that might sound familiar receive dynamic overhauls, now supported with quick dance rhythms and additional layers of synth gauze; the whispy flute trills and lightly flickering keys of 'AG Penthouse,' for instance, are melted into a churning rhythm and some singing keyboard vamps that resemble a relaxed take on Tangerine Dream's suspenseful soundtrack work for 'Thief' (minus the crazy guitars). What really makes the whole thing glow is the manner in which the tracks are attached, flowing in and out of another, rising and cresting and receding, with supreme poise -- even if its title provides no indication, the album is as much a travelogue as Carl Craig's Landcruising, Morgan Geist's Driving Memoirs and Model 500's Deep Space. These are some of Burger's most inventive productions, a remarkable feat since he's been doing this so long. Catch yourself in the right frame of mind and you'll wonder if everything he has released has been one extended ramp-up to this. In this age, it's also refreshing to have a purely ambient techno album with absolutely no connection to 'Boards of Canada.' In other words, it's a landmark for both its label and its genre." --Andy Kellman
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KOM 127EP
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After Triola Im Remixraum the second vinyl outtake of the album Triola Im Fünftonraum is here. For Triola Im Dubraum Teil 2 Triola, aka Kompakt co-founder Jörg Burger, invited a whole pack of noise experts. Pop ambient legend Dettinger gives one of his rare guest performances and interweaves Triola's arches of melody into a thicket of tenderness. Copenhagen's Mikkel Metal invests no less love and aspirates new life into "AG Penthouse" with Julee Cruise-ish sexy vocals. Bus depart from their normal crackle dub in favor of a slow-motion funk thing that is only two rip-raps away from the SOS band (and only one from the invention of a new genre). Come under the spell of the Modernist himself, Jörg Burger -- a worldwide representative for highly aesthetic minimal of maximum drive and charm.
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KOM 118EP
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"Hey folks, there isn't much to say. Triola is the adorable semi-ambient project of Jörg Burger. You already know that or you have missed one of the best listening records of 2004. The tracks 'Penthouse Ag' and 'Neuland' have only been released on that album Triola Im Fünftonraum (KOMP 035CD). And because of the persistent request they're now available on vinyl for the first time. The flipside well and truly belongs to Gabor Schablitzky. Whom? Well, the Wighnomy Bros respectively Robag Wruhme of course. I see. Any questions? No. Very well then."
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KOMP 035CD
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"Triola is like the spitting image of her biological father, The Modernist, but she thinks nothing of his nocturnal capers. Triola loves to spend time in her feng shui compatible apartment, to take care of her bonsai-breed or watch the birds in the garden. On cheerless, lonely days she jumps in her old jeans and dances almost naked on her anatolian living-room-kilim. It 'Sanctifies' she says. Her father finds this 'So Hippie', but Triola doesn't care about that. 'That's better than your awkward rave-fad...' She counters. But in fact they love each other. The maker behind Triola doesn't really have to be introduced anymore. Joerg Burger particularly has found his worldwide admirers through his projects such as the Bionaut and The Modernist and deservedly counts to the key figure of 'Cologne's Minimalsounds'. His operations with his friend and accompanist Wolfgang Voigt, like the album Burger/Ink - Las Vegas released on Harvest/Matador, count to the timeless classics of the 'Sound of Cologne'. After three albums as 'The Modernist", Jorg Burger as Triola returns to his second big love, the melancholic laid-back music for the rest room behind the disco that we used to call chill out room. Triola is pop ambient with straight bassdrum, it's sofa-dancing or head-disco in long time no heard subtilty and beauty. Triola continues where 'The Bionaut' ended with 'Lush life Electronica'. And that's how it should be."
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