Markus Guentner

Alongside Olaf Dettinger, Ulf Lohmann, and Argentina’s Gustavo Lamas, Markus Guentner symbolizes the ambient-leaning end from the Kompakt label spectrum, evidence positive the fact that label offers a lot more than tech-house; his productions for the Cologne, Germany, imprint are seldom reliant upon is better than and overt melodies, frequently sticking with drifting, oceanic atmospherics and chime-like results. In 2000, he released his first one on Kompakt with Regensburg and created the 12″ No Name for Mathias Schaffhauser’s Ware label. Before making his full-length debut the next season with In Moll, two of Guentner’s monitors (including “Regensburg” itself) had been highlighted on Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2001 compilation.