VA - Kompakt: Total 24 (2024)

A quarter of a century after the first compilation hit record stores, the 24th instalment of Kompakt's popular 'Total' series appears. As its predecessors did, the set rounds up dancefloor-focused label highlights from the last 12 months. While the Cologne-based label does not enjoy the same amount of coverage it once did, its' releases are just as strong as ever - as 'Total 24' emphatically proves. For proof, check the glassy-eyed deep electro-pop of Tee Mango's 'So In Love', the deep space electro of 'Laika' by Rex The Dog, the pulsating techno maximalism of Michael Mayer's 'Urian', the deep, dubby and dreaming dancefloor psychedelia of Ada's rework of 'Talking Man' by Heido Voss, the Moroder-goes-techno throb of Gui Boratto and Darren Emerson's 'The Shell', and the twisted tech-house-funk of 'Your Fault' by Raxon.