V/A - Pop Ambient 2025

"In recent years, the introductory texts for the Pop Ambient compilation series, which is released every year on Kompakt as the last release before the Christmas break, often began with the sentence 'Every year again.' 'Every year again,' a quiet, almost unnoticed maxim of self-evidentness. Because this is already the 25th issue to be published this year. 25 years in increasingly fast-moving times in the even faster-moving music business is an eternity that doesn't just feel like it. It is all the more remarkable how I, as someone who is always restless and often driven by this fast pace himself, pleasantly almost haven't realized how -- in pop-ambient contexts -- time does not pass (or passes differently) in the best sense. When compiling the 25th edition I was asked, among other things, what it was like that I was still doing this and whether I had a favorite track. In the spirit of bringing all the tracks together I don't have a favorite track, or all of them. But I have a favorite part (moment) that I played. In this case it was a broad chord in a change of key at minute 2:55 in the piece 'Circles' by Max Würden. A moment of majesty and familiarity that, at that moment, contains the entire Pop Ambient cosmos, that just works and doesn't explain anything -- and I said: 'that's the reason why I'm still doing this.' Pop Ambient is a statement without demands. Is promise without expectation. Is a path without a destination. Every year again." --Wolfgang Voigt,

A1 Leandro Fresco, Thore Pfeiffer - Goldwasserfluss
A2 Pass Into Silence - Mirage
A3 Tamarma, Sebastian Mullaert - Follow Me
A4 Sono Kollektiv - Periadriatische Naht
A5 Andrew Thomas - Sunshine Night
A6 Segensklang - Artifacts Of Synthese
B1 Ümit Han - Im Delirium
B2 Max Würden - Circles
B3 Blank Gloss - Jennifer's Convertible
B4 Hendrik Meyer - Grün War Die Klamm
B5 Triola - Zum Renngraben