Compost Records
Feature: Compost Records
Today Compost Records has about 20 artists under contract covering a wide variety of different musical styles: House, Electro, Brazil, Drum & Bass, Downbeat, Nu Jazz, amd 2-Step.

Compost Records was founded in 1994 by Michael Reinboth. Reinboth is a DJ, composer, music-journalist, club-organizer, A & R expert, producer, football fan and a dedicated record collector.

The first release of A Forest Mighty Black"Fresh In My Mind" was already a small underground-hit, which found its way to the playlists of DJs like James Lavelle and Gilles Peterson. Since then Compost Records established itself as one of the most important labels nation wide and gained a lot of respect all over Europe with acts like Kyoto Jazz Massive, Beanfield, Fauna
Flash, Trüby Trio, just to name some of them.

We caught up with Michael Reinboth and managed top put a few questions his way, here's what he had to say.
The label seems to have grown very quickly attracting some very skilled artists, are you suprised by the success of the label?
No, not really. We always working hard on that. But it was not quickly, it
was overall process and development of now 8 years - step by step. If it's
your daily work and your patience and heart, then you see that success and
respect different as from an outside view. So we see the ups and downs the
positive and negative things. What is success, anyway? We just try to
release great music.
What are the plans for the label in the future?
More diversity, more variety , more skills and even better music.
To release a classic album, maybe perhaps? Celebrating 10 years of Compost at the end of next year (03) Launching new projects as always and developing our constant artists further. Our own web shop and extending the homepage and making some DVDs.
Which other labels out there do you respect?
A lot , a few. Some old school label-people like Chris Blackwell (Island
Records) for example who brought music like Reggae or GoGo on the worldwide map. I respect a lot of people or labels in the same vein as Compost as well as always cool labels like Warp, Ninja Tune, of course Gilles Peterson and Talking Loud, G-Stone, Versatile, Ubiquity, Sonar Kollektiv, Gigolo, ohh to
much to mention..…
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We don't really see the artists over in the UK as much as we like, are there plans to increase there presence over here?
Yes, but that's a tough and hard thing. Sometimes we are missing booking
agencies there, sometimes it's a problem of fees, sometimes or often the artists are to busy. We are not a major, we cannot pay big amounts of tour support.
What's your favourtie release on Compost?
Oh that changes from time to time. Always the newest stuff. But highlights were some Trüby Trio tunes and Beanfield "The Season".
Any shouts to people?
Shouts to our fanbase and all the underground DJs and lovers of our music.
Big up to all our friends.

Check the web site @ www.compost-records.com