Trüby Trio - Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitäns-kajütenlied
Rainer Trüby is a former member of Germany's internationally well known Compost-project A Forest Mighty Black from Freiburg. He is a real vinyl-junkie and has compiled the fantastic and still in-demand European-jazz Brazil fusion compilations Glücklich - Vol. 1 and 2 and the Nitrogen for Compost. Now, after a split with A Forest Mighty Black, he has enforced and developed his own project called Trüby Trio (which is in fact Rainer Trüby & Fauna Flash).
A Forest Mighty Black - Rebirth, Till The End
Coming from the forest of jazz, the Black Forest, Freiburg based Brazil-fusion project is following the tradition of Germanys best jazz label MPS. After releasing four 12inches and a CD on Compost and appearing on various well known compilations we can’t get enough of that mixed up elements of various styles like drum & bass, hip hop-big beat, jazz and bits and pieces of Latin and Brazilian music. The famous Freiburg-based Brazil-fusion project just released a funky, fresh and uptight remix compilation album on Compost which you shouldn’t miss.
Fauna Flash - Velvet Strings* 
The Munich based drum & bass project Fauna Flash released it’s first 12-inch in 1995. Christian Prommer and Roland Appel (one of Munich’s best wild-style DJs) are the first German drum & bass outfit getting props from the Metalheadz posse an their tracks are played by DJs like Peshay, Kemistry & Storm, Fabio, Grooverider, Kabuki and are listed by Gilles Peterson’s personal charts in Straight No Chaser. Their remix-LP "Velvet Strings" will be the follow-up to Fauna Flash’s "Aquarius" LP and the "In The Dangerous Kitchen" 12inch (made it to no. 8 of the German Club Charts) with a Natural High Productions remix and a stunning new cinemascope-meets-blaxploitation-soundtrack-style drum & bass track.
Natural High Productions - Sonar
Formed in 1992 by the DJs Alex Dallas and Robi Insinna, Natural High Productions are now mix up everything from jazz, dub, hip hop and drum & bass in Zürich where they started their first weekly clubnight. With their second clubnight they definitely helped drum & bass to became a smash hit in Switzerland. Check out their "Street of Zurich"-Remix of Fauna Flash’s "Kiss", too.
Beanfield - Planetary Deadlock (Video Edit)
The Munich-based project of Michael Reinboth, Jan Krause and Tobias Meggle, give you another rare and unique microcosm. Nourished by ancient elements of Rare Groove and Latin Jazz from the Old School into a modern, urban Electro of their own. Conjuring up aural images reminiscent of Jurassic-style monster movie soundtracks, the human melting-pot of New York, and the mystic exoticism of the Brazilian Jungle, Beanfield fuse musical skill with analogue & digital technology - all on top of a thick layer of funky grooves - to create the freshest sound you will come across for a long time.
Move D - Hurt Me (Bedouin Ascent Remix No. 1)*
Move D is David Moufang, head and owner of Source Records, Heidelberg (RO 70, Rob Gordon Project, Reagenz). He already contributed to the "Future Sound of Jazz" Vol. 3 and has recently released his first 12-inch on Compost. Move D is an intricately woven collage of computerised soul lo-tech pick-pocking drum machine-swing with space shuttle-sounds simply unique and brilliant! The remix work is done by famous freestyler Bedouin Ascent (former Rising High).
Force & Paul - Blue Movie*
David Muallem and Paul Beller are Compost’s new drum & bass act. Force is also a DJ. 18 Year old Force started buying records at the age of twelve (by now he has a collection of 1800 drum & bass 12inches and even more hip hop vinyls). As he turned fourteen he bought his first sampler and began experimenting with sounds. Until Force finally passed on a demo-tape to Michael Reinboth the head of Compost records. Force and his 21 year old friend Paul a music-student (plays e-bass, contrabass, piano, guitar, drums and cello) have been producing strikingly brilliant tracks in their spartanic homestudio. We don’t hype it, we just love it all at the Compost office.
Genf - Aachen-Brüssel (Hans Nieswandt-Whirlpool Remix)
They are Oliver Brand (drums and electronics), Olar Karnik (guitar) and Jens Massel (electronics) from Cologne. Genf’s musical style is somewhere between ambient, funk, indie and techno-house. Their mission is to create a perfect combination between analogue and digital sources, that’s why guitar and drums belong to their instruments as well as samples and synthesizer. Check out their remix-12inch including a disco-house remix by Hans Nieswandt - Whirlpool on Compost.
Funkstörung - InMarSat
The meaning of the word ‘Funkstörung’ - German for radio interference - best describes what one can expect. Funk split up into hardly recognizable fragments mixed with the strange sounds of radio interference. Funkstörung are quite often called the German equivalent to Aphex Twin or Autechre but Michael Fakesch and Chris De Luca - the men behind the scenes - are not always happy with this comparison. But they are the more independent and innovative ones. They hardly ever use samples for their music, every little sound is handmade. All melodies and even the most complicated rhythms are created on standalone equipment without using any sort common computer. Funkstörung have delivered remixes for the like of Björk, Two Lone Swordsman, Wu Tang Clan a.o. and also have had international success with their own album "Vice Versa" on Studio !K7.
Four Ears - Columbus (Avenue Of The Americas)
Four Ears are Bym Stempka and Curt Nolte, both children of Berlin’s underground-scene! Bym has had great influence on Germany’s music-history. He was the founder of Flucht Nach Vorn (well known New Wave Underground outfit from the early eighties and is one of Germany’s most respected underground hiphop, drum & bass DJs. Curt Nolte is the technological-mastermind behind Four Ears. In the early, wilder days of the 80s he was singing and playing guitar and sax in different groups and also worked as a music-journalist. He was also part of strange and futuristic multimedia-happenings and big spectacles like "West Wurst" with author Felicitas Hoppe.
Taran - Dust
How to describe the music of Taran? Lo-fi-tech-jazz-ambient with a Ukranian flavour? Eclectic Eastern European soul with a distinctive melancholic feeling? Taran works, burns up and chills in Kiev, the Ukraine capital. He is the first underground artists from the Ukraine, who got a record deal in the west.
Knowtoryus - Bomberclad Joint (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session Pt. 1)
According to meaning of the name Knowtoryus stands for equality world wide renown, hardcore righteous rap super heroes, on a mission to save the universe by ‘edutaining’ the babies. They are out for spreading the news of hiphop-culture, black consciousness, black power and the issues of street culture. Let’s call their style of music HipHop with a Ragga-flavour and abstract elements! This is the first release of the still in-demand "Bomberclad Joint" Kruder & Dorfmeister-Remix-Session on CD.
Compost 50 sound samples:
Fauna Flash - Velvit Strings
Taran - Dust
*previously unreleased tracks