oh, we love compilations and yes, we love creating those outstanding collections featuring a great variety of styles and artists. kitty-yo has always been about gathering people and ideas, getting the best that’s out there. check out our compilation below and get the best of kitty-yo. it’s all good and it’s all there for some reasonable price. remember, we do this cause we love you folks!

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v/a – class of 2007 english info | german info

a special treat for our 24th and final trick of 2007, we delved through the our crates and memories of the year that we went digital, and offer this hand compiled selection as the cream from our team. 2007 saw the release of kitty-yo live albums and returns from some big hitters, choicely selected releases on our sister label kitty cuts and as ever, a plethora of fresh underground music, regardless of genre, from around the world. before we proceed with 2008 and the delights that will certainly entail in our fourteenth year of action, this fine compilation offers fourteen homages to the year just gone. we have laid out plenty for your stimulation with hot beat action from meisterfackt and e.stonji, leftist hip-hop by the tape vs. rqm and shadow huntaz & kareem, modern day soul jazz nodding from jimi tenor (live!) and maoi, outsider pop from rhythm king ahf and sportsguitar, ear wetting ‘alt’ from nina hynes & the husbands and maximilian hecker (live!), plus speaker hurting music by mittekill and molloy – all for your aural pleaure. machos meet queers, rappers meet crooners, laptops meet guitars. older but not wiser, we present for you kitty-yo ‘class of 2007′.

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v/a – purple skies remixed english info | german info

the new remix-album of the nq ‘purple skies’ release features remix artists from around the globe. 10 tracks in between warm and organic textures, shifting and glistening compositions full of atmospheric dissonance and crunchy rhythms made from crisp head-nodding twists and turns. the collection gathers electronica-artists from japan, finland, italy and germany. sounds like abstract pastel paintings, peculiarly nostalgic electronica tracks, some ambient wash of distant, almost unheard drums and piano, jazz-driven bittersweet melancholia and undulating symphonies of breaks, drums, loops and noises. including: spyritual, e.stonji, el fog, palac, deer, ametsub, aus, nq and bluermutt

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v/a – replugging the cables

this compilation pays hommage to all the people who have created a distinct electronic musical footprint over the past few years so take a bow rechenzentrum, jahcoozi, litwinenko, to rococo rot, richard davis, sex in dallas, the tape, atmo.brtschitsch and white hole.

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v/a – lost tapes, found treasures.

you remember your best tapes, right? occasionally you come across one lying under your car seat which is all fucked up and dirty and you put it on and realise that the older they get the better they become. well, we’ve searched our back-catalogue and have complied a beautiful compliation consisting of four unique kitty-yo bands… go plus, tarwater, couch and kante. 11 songs & 56 minutes full of instrumental post-rock, alternative guitar music, sweet electronics and emotional singer & songwriter stuff. so next time you’re all drunk at six in the morning, trying to catch the first train home, stick this in your walkman.

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v/a – alaska.de

this is the first soundtrack release for kitty-yo, put together for one of the best german movies made… alaska.de. a film that depicts the dreams, the search for orientation and sometimes the violence of the post-wall generation in the ghettos of east berlin. the double cd features rare tracks and hits by maximilian hecker, gonzales, peaches, laub, surrogat and new beauties. whereas the first cd includes all soundtrack material, the second part includes the whole score, arranged and played by moser/meyer/doering, a formation build around rudi moser of einstuerzende neubauten!

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v/a – futurism ain’t shit to me 2

featuring prince po, stacs of stamina, quasimoto, jackson, slum village, sole and a whole delorean’s worth of re-wired contributors, ‘futurism ain’t shit to me vol. 2′ is the 2nd (who’d have guessed?!) comp from kitty-yo to nestle under the sweaty-bossom of gonzales (well, one of his song titles anyhow). there’s much to be enjoyed here whether this be the helium-hop of quasimoto (‘come on feet’), the glitch-opera of jackson (‘rock on’) or prince po’s electro-fed ‘hold dat (club mix)’.

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v/a – cuts & pieces

the best from our 12″ sublabel kitty-cuts. sold out remixes, limited ep’s, vinyl only releases and unreleased stuff… it’s all on there: rhythm king and her friends, litwinenko, codec & flexor, ed laliq, man like me, chikinki and many more!

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v/a – futurism ain’t shit to me
a great collection of independent hiphop and a refreshing antidote to the commercial gangsta rap we’re usually drip-fed.

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v/a – team kitty-yo

celebrating our tenth anniversary, ‘team kitty-yo’ features exclusives from, amongst others, gold chains & sue cie, maximilian hecker, jimi tenor, tarwater & kante, plus a free bonus cd. the first disc of the cd version is a collection of unreleased material by both new and established kitty-yo artists, featuring tracks by tarwater, rechenzentrum, raz ohara, taylor savvy, sex in dallas, rhythm king and her friends and maximilian hecker with new input from kitty-yo freshmen jay haze, richard davis and spyritual. part two of ‘team kitty-yo’ is a free bonus cd featuring rare and unreleased tracks from tarwater, peaches & gonzales, kante, louie austen, rhythm king and her friends, sex in dallas, to rococo rot, raz ohara, rechenzentrum, preed and more.

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v/a – 2002.02
an update of our roster here at the kitty-yo office including rare stuff, great hits and exclusive material. get into music by taylor savy, maximilian hecker, louie austen, gonzales, laub, jeans team, rechenzentrum and others.

cd: kitty-yo popstore

v/a – einigen wir uns auf die zukunft
this is an unique label compilation featuring artists from kitty-yo, payola and kollaps, speaking of postrock hymns and smart electectronics by tied & tickled trio, console, laub, kammerflimmern kollektiv, couch and many more… the crème de la crème of independent and innovative german music.

cd: kitty-yo popstore

v/a – freischwimmer
a sublime anthology filled with hits, rarities and unreleased material from the kitty-yo stable.

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cd: kitty-yo popstore