A decidely concrete und highly personal interpretation of the genre. Limited to 500 units. After inaugurating our new POP AMBIENT artist album series on Kompakt with Leandro Fresco's stellar full-length "El Reino Invisible" (KOMPAKT PA LP 01 / CD 1), we're thrilled to present the next instalment by upcoming soundsmith THORE PFEIFFER. This young producer from Germany already turned heads with two excellent contributions to our POP AMBIENT 2015 compilation (KOMPAKT 315 CD 120), now showcasing the full breath of his remarkable talent on IM BLICKFELD. Meticulously curated by Wolfgang Voigt, the Pop Ambient compilation series (and its latest offspring, the Pop Ambient artist album series) always catered to a unique aesthetic sitting somewhere between experimental field recordings, no-age music and synth pop - a proud tradition carried on by THORE PFEIFFER's full-length debut IM BLICKFELD. Successfully carving out his very own niche on crowded terrain, he doesn't seem too interested in merely repeating the established achievements of the genre, but finds a personal approach to electronic enchantment. From the hot-wired micro-loops of enigmatic opener ALLZU NAH to the cut-up folk of the title track, the neon-tinged romance of WAS IHR WOLLT or the mock balearisms of KOLIBRI, Thore seems to be less interested in watering down the rough edges of his source material, focussing on the relationships and juxtapositions of his samples instead. Rather than indulging in multiple layers of textures, this is a decidedly "concrete" interpretation of Pop Ambient, dealing with distinct musical objects and their different states of aggregation in time. Nevertheless, there's a lot of purely emotional adventure to be found in IM BLICKFELD - take the sophisticated soaring of FALKE for example, or the somewhat cozy dissonances of NICHT GENUG: these are tracks that don't remain stationary, but take you travelling into fascinating mental territory, thanks to their unique arrangements and hand-picked sonics. "During production, I always had these images in mind, of a hunter sitting in his deerstand, contemplating his extended field of vision", Thore explains. "He's got a lot of time at his hands to muse about things and take in the silence before the storm"