Todd Burns and Michael F. Gill- Kompakt (The Year In Review), [Utopia Burns]

In our continuing series of podcasts on Friday, today we bring a slight twist on the format that we’ve presented so far. Stylus writer Michael F. Gill and I worked out the technical difficulties of recording off the phone and had an hour plus long coversation about one of our favorite record labels of the year. As one of our first conversations ever, I think it went pretty well after the first few minutes of general nervousness, etc., although my heavy breathing is kind of annoying (perhaps only to my sensitive ears).

Michael was kind enough to play DJ, providing samples from each and every release that the label put out this year and we both weighed in. While I think Michael and I would both agree that this wasn’t the best year in the label’s history, the sheer breadth of material released and quality maintained made it a worthy subject of discussion. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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