This is going to be nuts. Will they still be playing Techno-based DJ sets as SuperMayer? That would be monstrous.

this will be tip top

it's just as stunning as you would hope, folks. really. currently playing 4 different tracks from it out...

ewan x

wow, talk about a duo. Certainly stunning!

nice work...

yes please. look forward to it.

nice work

that is moist... like wet... im not talkin bout my pants!

oooooooo this is gonna be sick

can't wait

Biggest disappointment of the year! A 3-track ep would have been much better. Nowhere near their glorious remixes. But it's hardly surprising since Superpitcher recent output hasn't been that great (since 2005 anyway).

Great album from both Michael and Aksel, it's different from anything else they've done before and sheds a light of hope in today's depressing techno scene. I suggest you burn all your stupid minimal records and start opening up to more refreshing melodies.

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Biggest disappointment of the year! A 3-track ep would have been much better. Nowhere near their glorious remixes. But it's hardly surprising since Superpitcher recent output hasn't been that great (since 2005 anyway).

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I agree totally. Really was looking forward to this, I should really give it another go but it really didn't impress.

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I suggest you burn all your stupid minimal records and start opening up to more refreshing melodies.

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Having been a fan of indie rock for almost 20 years i think i know a thing or two about melodies! But as the famous Playhouse tshirt once said "'Good Music I Dance,No good Music I Not Dance", and there isn't much to dance to on this record.
In my opinion this album is quite poor, and to be honest i don't see anything refreshing in the melodies! There are far better albums than this in the indie-electronica sub-genre. Mayer and Superpitcher tried something different but it failed.

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I suggest you burn all your stupid minimal records and start opening up to more refreshing melodies.

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Having been a fan of indie rock for almost 20 years i think i know a thing or two about melodies! But as the famous Playhouse tshirt once said "'Good Music I Dance,No good Music I Not Dance", and there isn't much to dance to on this record.
In my opinion this album is quite poor, and to be honest i don't see anything refreshing in the melodies! There are far better albums than this in the indie-electronica sub-genre. Mayer and Superpitcher tried something different but it failed.

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I don't think it's indie at all. In fact, in my opinion it's the best dance album of the year (next to Asa Breed). My opinion, that's all.

Like one fellow  journalist once said 'No one is right, and no one is wrong'.

Cheers,

I really like 3 tracks off the album but 3 tracks don't make a great album. Maybe my expectations were too high. I would be curious to see how many tracks will make it to the dancefloor. And "Asa Breed" is a far better record in my opinion (nothing weak on it unlike "Save the world").
Cheers

can't say i've ever been that enamoured with michael mayer's production work. he should stick to dj'ing and running a label.

never been impressed with michael's production work...?! everyone's entitled to their opinion, but... what about "speaker", "love is stronger than pride", "privat", his remixes of "yes sir i can hardcore", "welcome back kotter" and "happiness" (a modern classic, surely)? all magnificent records.

imho "save the world" is a great album which rewards those who give it a few listens; it's warm and witty and human when so many records at the moment sound like laptops on autopilot. "planet of the sick" and "two of us" haven't been out of my set since i got it. maybe i'm biased - and i must declare an interest as i've just remixed "the art of letting go" for the next single - but if i didn't think it was great i'd be keeping very quiet right now.

cheers,
ewan

I have always been a huge supporter of Michael Mayer and Superpitcher's work until "save the world". Michael Mayer's remix of "Happiness" , "Lovefood" or Superpitcher's remix of the MFA are just perfection. The melodies are absolutely fabulous. The new tracks just don't have that special little thing about them. The first time i heard "Happiness" or "Lovefood" i kept listening to them for hours and hours. "House is a feeling" and i just don't feel the new tracks. But as Ewan says everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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I have always been a huge supporter of Michael Mayer and Superpitcher's work until "save the world". Michael Mayer's remix of "Happiness" , "Lovefood" or Superpitcher's remix of the MFA are just perfection. The melodies are absolutely fabulous. The new tracks just don't have that special little thing about them. The first time i heard "Happiness" or "Lovefood" i kept listening to them for hours and hours. "House is a feeling" and i just don't feel the new tracks. But as Ewan says everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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just reminiscing about the Super/Mayer oldies makes the album sound twice as bad..

'two of us' is good, the rest of it is just weak. This goes nowhere near to the masterpiece that was Dears 'Asa Breed'

....'a soundtrack to the glammed-up posing of supermarket sheep clubbers who pay significantly more attention to their brand of sunglasses and the angularity of their hairstyles than the quality of music they’re dancing to'

shit.
i hate to admit it
but
its fuckin true

Nice work Mungo.

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just reminiscing about the Super/Mayer oldies makes the album sound twice as bad..

'two of us' is good, the rest of it is just weak. This goes nowhere near to the masterpiece that was Dears 'Asa Breed'

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Exactly what we're trying to explain here.
I totally agree "Two Of Us" is a excellent track. When I first heard it I thought the album would be great, full of hyper-melodic tracks as I like them. I was really looking forward to it. How disappointed I was when I discovered the whole album. I couldn't found and still can't find the point of it. It goes nowhere while I was expecting a beautiful musical journey.
As Molko999 said a 3-track EP would have been much better.

If there is a concept on this album, sorry I just don't get it!

Really can't see the point of all those electronic albums which contain only 2 or 3 good tracks (not necessarily only for the dancefloor) and which I think are totally useless!!!

average. totally average. im disappointed. totally disappointed.

This album is very very disappointing :-(

four years ago superpitcher was one the most talented djs and producers in the electronic world. he lost his way after having done his first longplayer. when comparing a set he has done 2003 with his nowadays-djing you start crying about this waste of potentials. maybe one could understand this sad development as resulting from the cologne kompakt scene. they all celebrate their family, of course, but what about stimulating the creative outcome? wolfgang voigt has done great work - even in interviews he talks about the essential stuff and the good releases to be done in the nineties. that's what's written on the banner of this sad and disappointing release. it's a fake. it tries to cover the lack of a musical concept and a musical idea with the comic stuff and these (musical) cheap sound elements that were melted to pseudo-tracks.
and TWO OF US???? GO AND LISTEN TO THE DAF TRACK "DER RÄUBER UND DER PRINZ" - and then try to find an additional idea in the supermayer track.
just think on superpitchers "hi freaks" remix and michael mayers "privat" release and pray for the good times to come back. more and more mediocre stuff is becoming the new kompakt standard.

what a bunch of idiots.

I'm sorry, but unlike all of you, I REALLY like the cd!

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what a bunch of idiots.

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Why do you insult other people ?
No place for rudeness on this forum.

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four years ago superpitcher was one the most talented djs and producers in the electronic world. he lost his way after having done his first longplayer. when comparing a set he has done 2003 with his nowadays-djing you start crying about this waste of potentials. maybe one could understand this sad development as resulting from the cologne kompakt scene. they all celebrate their family, of course, but what about stimulating the creative outcome? wolfgang voigt has done great work - even in interviews he talks about the essential stuff and the good releases to be done in the nineties. that's what's written on the banner of this sad and disappointing release. it's a fake. it tries to cover the lack of a musical concept and a musical idea with the comic stuff and these (musical) cheap sound elements that were melted to pseudo-tracks.
and TWO OF US???? GO AND LISTEN TO THE DAF TRACK "DER RÄUBER UND DER PRINZ" - and then try to find an additional idea in the supermayer track.
just think on superpitchers "hi freaks" remix and michael mayers "privat" release and pray for the good times to come back. more and more mediocre stuff is becoming the new kompakt standard.

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thanks for pointing at the DAF track. It is actually one of my favorite electro track ever and i did not even realize how much "Two of us" borrows from it.
Kompakt has been a bit hit and miss recently. Some great suff (Maxime Danglos, Partial Arts, The Field) alongside some not so great stuff(Aril Brika, Rex the Dog, some of the Speicher serie, etc...). there was a time when almost every release was quality, but not anymore unfortunately.

give or take a few records, the Speicher series is a constant on Kompakt. As for the artist releasing on the label the quality list is getting very shallow indeed.. I would only point out to The Field releases as something worth being excited about

I havent heard all of it, but Two of Us is fantastic!

YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH !!!!

i like it

the biggest shock for me on this album was how much it strayed from their remixes. but that is not to say this album is not good. it's actually really good, great even.

i didn't like it at first, mostly because i was expecting eleven tracks other than "two of us" in the vein of mayer's and superpitcher's past work. but giving this thing a few listens, i find i have to agree with ewan-this record has a personality to it that other releases lately have been lacking.

"the art of letting go", "saturndays", "us and them" "please sunrise" "planet of the sick" "two of us" and "cocktails for two" are all good-to-brilliant tracks. the shorter cinematic interludes serve their purpose as well, linking ideas from one part of the album to the next effortlessly. the album has such cohesion that weaker songs like "the lonesome king" don't feel weak.

i think, apart from its sheer cohesion as an album (something lacking in most longplayers in the genre) the album has another perhaps more admirable quality: it demands attention. my first appreciation of this album did not come until i played it out loud at louder-than-normal volume and did nothing but listen to the music.

and i have no idea how any of this would work in a club (except maybe "two of us") but i leave that task to ewan and his ilk.

everyone complaining about kompakt's quality lately has either moved away from the genre (i.e. pop) or has ignored the great recent releases from gui boratto, the field, maxime dangles, thomas fehlmann and partial arts. not to mention aril brikha (one of you all dismissed him earlier) who put out a mean e.p. in last year's "winter ep". i will concede that i have no clue what rex the dog is doing on the label (all his music sounds like it was decent pop filtered through a wii remote) but i would say that quality control is still a very important factor in kompakt releases.

as all know, everyone is entitled to his opinion. just my two cents.

p.s. ewan, your remix of "the art of letting go" was awesome. i'm a big fan of "telescope" as well.

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weaker songs like "the lonesome king" don't feel weak.

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Weaker song?? Ich nicht think so ... A beautiful track imo.

intelligent saves