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Kompakt unveils the third volume of Jörg Burger's Velvet Desert Music compilation series, dedicated to music that hits the sweet spot between the cinematic, the (pop) ambient, and the psychedelic. With Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3, Burger and his friends wander afar, taking trips away from, or adjacent to, the dancefloor that's acted so long as the crucible for the Kompakt aesthetic. Because it's such a broad church, Velvet Desert Music admits all kinds of new experiences as well, with Burger looking for music that "leads out of the desert into the velvet universe." The roster has changed, with new contributors Flug 8 and Seb Martel, both with his trio Las Ondas Marteles and with Chocolate Genius and Zsela as La Finca, joining regulars The Novotones, Mount Obsidian, The Golden Bug, Paulor, and Sascha Funke. Burger himself reappears, too, alongside Fritz Ackermann (of The Novotones), Max Würden, and Thore Pfeiffer, in The Velvet Circle. A Mount Obsidian remix of "Sacrosanct" by Burger's The Black Frame -project is a swirling treat for the ears. Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3 is a triumph of a compilation that takes the psychedelic visions of its predecessors and looks for the desert within, a dusty kiss, a road-movie hallucination flickering on the listener's eyelids, a cinematic projection from deep inside the mind.