Justus Köhncke's Living Room

Third album from the Kompakt discoteer promises to dispense with the vocals (mostly) and keep its eye on the dancefloor. Safe and Sound arrives in January.

Justus Köhncke’s previous album Doppelleben was an unlikely blend of electro-disco and crooning, but the two sides of Justus look like they’ve now officially split: Köhncke now records vocal pop tracks as Kinky Justice, while Safe and Sound focuses on instrumental dancefloor action.

The album was recorded over the last two years at Köhncke’s strange subterreanean studio, located in a Cologne city centre basement reported formerly occupied by a butcher. The tracks on Safe and Sound are variously described as “pure disco bangers” (‘Molybdän’, ‘Love and Dancing’, ‘Parage’) and “Cobblestone Jazz played by one guy alone” (‘$26’) in the press release, but check Uncle Justus’s Myspace to hear for yourself – five of the tracks from the album are now posted for listening. Let the sample-spotting begin!

Tracklist

01 Yacht
02 Molybdän
03 Love and Dancing (Update)
04 Tilda
05 Feuerland
06 Parage
07 (It’s Gonna Be) Alright
08 $26
09 Spukhafte Fernwirkung
10 Safe and Sound

’Safe and Sound’ by Justus Köhncke is out on Kompakt on January 28, 2008.

less vocals=good news

BOOOOOOO @ UUUUUUUU

from http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48892-safe-sound

Safe & Sound's most recurring touchpoint is probably early IDM.

there's no justice, there's justus and his unenjoyable voice

ban lingbert

may i have the honor?

honestly, right here in his living room! how rude!

was ist mein shitty voice

your voice is fine, lingbert. it's not like sexy or anything, but i like

it

i go CRAZY when i hear Parage lately

"Thanks for the Add"

i liked in the movie when he said Cologne discos suck

yah seriously otm.

the only 2 good parts in that movie are the only 2 good things about cologne: kompakt and justus.

wolfgang voigt's rat tail or whatever the hell that was...uhh

he was probably trying for an evocation of the cathedral spire