While the whole recording industry is heavily concentrated on finding ways to fulfil the global market’s new expectations, the future of Compost Records has probably never looked so bright, as demonstrated by a heavy 2004 release schedule. More explanations with the Munich based label’s CEO, Michael Reinboth, on what is to be the first label profile to be featured on IDMW.com…

This is why I had to create this new structure, in order to avoid confusion in the minds of our Compost fans. True to think that they like our way of twisting the groove, although putting our releases under the nu jazz file seems like being an error to me. I’d much prefer seing us being considered as doin’ future jazz or future groove or,The reason why I called him for this project is not only because he’s from Munich as well as a good friend but also because I Like what he’s doing behind the desks, pushin’ us in the very depth of leftfield techno in a way that no one esle does. Also, let me bring you back to some soundz that also have been ours backin the days with groups like Funkstörung, that were not so far away on a purely electronic perspective, mentioning the launch of an aside subsidiary called Angora Steel dedicated to this kind of spectrum.I’m nothing but a PC punk, he enthuses, reminding his influences that also find their niche in the electro/new wave period.

This is why I had to create this new structure, in order to avoid confusion in the minds of our Compost fans. True to think that they like our way of twisting the groove, although putting our releases under the nu jazz file seems like being an error to me. I’d much prefer seing us being considered as doin’ future jazz or future groove or, even better,opening new perspectives, refering for instance to what norvegian incomparable, Bugge Wesseltoft is doing with his New Conceptions Of Jazz. I tend to think that it’s possible to be as spectular while built on other perspectives, should it be classic, ambient, electro or whatever, knowing that what counts at the end of the day is nothing but the emotion you feel while listening to some new tune. The best exemple being given next march with the issue-ing of Beanfield’s third album, Seek, where, as said on the press release statement, “digital kisses analog“ ; where today finally looks like a rendez-vous in which yesterday and tomorrow would seat at the same table. In other words, where the natural leads to some new paths born out of the perfect