Pitchfork

So lately your iTunes shuffle keeps calling up those Clap Your Hands tracks you got off Soulseek last year, and they're cool and all, but you're just not feeling them right now. Frankly, you're not really feeling the so-called "indie rock" at all these days. Perhaps it's high time you, as Pitchfork's Dominique Leone once put it, "come down...to the minimal world."

And what better occasion than this: on October 30 in Europe and October 4 in America, Germany's minimal techno mecca Kompakt will release Immer 2, the intensely-anticipated follow up to 2002's seminal Immer mix. As with its predecessor, Kompakt co-founder and beloved techno artist Michael Mayer mixed this set, liable to blow up headphones and slick European dancefloors in equal measure with de rigeur tunes from Lindstrøm, Justus Köhncke, SCSI-9, and more.

Whistle not quite whetted yet? Try this: in addition to twelve Mayer-mixed minimal house and techno anthems, copies of Immer 2 will also include a golden ticket to seven additional mp3s hand-selected by Mayer himself. Buttress your playlists with these subtle bangers and your indie rock won't sound quite the same again.

If you're not quite ready yet, try dipping your toes in Mayer's world by catching the man in action at Detroit's Shelter on October 7, or at NYC's T New York on October 6. The latter show is part of the New Yorker Festival and is listed as "A New Yorker Dance Party Hosted by Sasha Frere-Jones". HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Immer 2:

01 Someone Else - "Ploosh"
02 Ian Simmonds - "The Dog"
03 Brooks - "Tell Somebody About the Beat"
04 Frank West - "2nd Booty (Astrolab)"
05 Crowdpleaser - "18 Years"
06 Justus Köhncke - "Advance"
07 Lindstrøm - "Another Platform (Todd Terje Remix)"
08 The Rice Twins - "For Dan"
09 SCSI-9 - "Morskaya"
10 Jesse Somfay - "Lying in a Bed of Mist"
11 DK7 - "Where's the Fun (Sten Remix)"
12 Geiger - "Good Evening (Supermayer Remix)"

Bonus mp3s:

01 James Din A4 - "Intro"
02 AM/PM - "No Matter Whether"
03 Mikkel Metal - "Lukon (Michael Mayer Remix)"
04 Adolf Noise - "Der Grundton (Michael Mayer Remix)"
05 Ada - "Maps (Thomas/Mayer Remix)"
06 Dorau/Köhncke - "Abermorgen"
07 Terre Thaemlitz & Funk Shui - "Superbonus"