Kompakt 500

Label: Kompakt – KOMPAKT 500 CD
Format: 3 x CD, Compilation, Stereo
Country: Germany
Released: May 23, 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Techno

Thirty-three years and five hundred releases — the pirate ship sails on. Kompakt's landmark compilation celebrates a milestone that is rarely reached in the music industry, gathering fifty tracks across three CDs in a democratic selection drawn from one of electronic music's most beloved and consistently extraordinary catalogues. From the earliest transmissions of the Cologne sound to the label's most globally celebrated moments, Kompakt 500 is as comprehensive and emotionally moving a document of a label's history as you are ever likely to encounter.

The fifty tracks span Gas's Pop 1 and Markus Guentner's Regensburg alongside Dettinger's Blond 1, The Field's Over The Ice, DJ Koze's Brutalga Square, Superpitcher, Robag Wruhme, Michael Mayer, Thomas Fehlmann, Jürgen Paape, Laurent Garnier, The Orb and dozens more — Kompakt evergreens sitting alongside real rarities from the early Sound of Cologne, all lovingly remastered to shine in new splendour. A lavish, definitive celebration of thirty-three and a third years of a label that continues to brave every storm and glide through every calm with the same unfailing commitment to music first.

1. Tocotronic – Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen (Superpitcher / Wassermann Mix)
2. Kaito – Everlasting
3. Terranova feat. Tomas Høffding – Paris Is For Lovers (My Love)
4. Justus Köhncke – Timecode
5. Heiko Voss – I Think About You
6. Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer – Neo
7. The Bionaut – Everybody's Kissing Everyone
8. Ada feat. Raz Ohara – Lovestoned
9. Superpitcher – Mushroom
10. Rex The Dog – Prototype
11. Dettinger – Blond 1
12. The Field – Over The Ice
13. Robag Wruhme – Calma Calma
14. Saschienne – Unknown (Dixon Mix)
15. Max Würden – Circles
16. Gas – Pop 1
17. Triola – AG Penthouse (2. Epoche)
18. Thomas Fehlmann – Making It Whistle
19. SCSI-9 – All She Wants Is (Wighnomy Bros. Mix)
20. Jürgen Paape – Reval 1
21. The Modernist – Pearly Spencer
22. Aril Brikha – Berghain
23. T.Raumschmiere – Augen Zu
24. Reinhard Voigt – Superskunk
25. Schaeben & Voss – Dicht Dran 1
26. DJ Koze – Brutalga Square
27. The Orb – Masterblaster
28. Michael Mayer – Pride Is Weaker Than Love
29. Laurent Garnier – From The Crypt To The Astrofloor
30. Anna & Kittin – Forever Ravers
31. Mike Ink – Rosenkranz
32. Reinhard Voigt – Stille Hände
33. Forever Sweet – The Bionaut
34. Wassermann – W.I.R. (Sven Väth Mix)
35. Blank Gloss – Coiling
36. Michael Mayer / Matias Aguayo – Slow
37. Wighnomy Bros – Wurz + Blosse
38. John Tejada – Unstable Condition
39. Sam Taylor-Wood produced by Pet Shop Boys – I'm In Love With A German Film Star (Gui Boratto Mix)
40. Jürgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie
41. Matias Aguayo – Walter Neff
42. Voigt & Voigt – Tischlein Deck Dich
43. Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life
44. Kölsch – Goldfisch
45. Gusgus – Rivals (DJ Hell Mix)
46. Closer Musik – Maria
47. Wassermann – Fackeln Im Sturm
48. Jürgen Paape – Take That
49. Superpitcher – Happiness (Michael Mayer Mix)
50. Markus Guentner – Regensburg