Kompakt records (Cologne - Germany) is driven by one of the electronic music superstars; Michael Mayer who defined the sound off pop influenced electronic parties for almost a decade.

It is one of my favourite electronic music label along with Perlon and I try to save up money to buy their entire backcatalog. Kompakt records represent a broad aspect of music - from their banging speicher series to pop music on their sub label Kompakt Pop. And here we go:

British artist Sam Taylor-Wood - one of the infamous YBAs who came to prominence along with Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin et al in the early 90s - is to release a 12" single on exactly Kompakt Pop.
It is a collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys (whom the Kompakt chaps are long-standing fans of), 'I'm In Love With A German Filmstar' is a cover of the unspeakably brilliant and, surely, unbeatable 1981 post-punk weepie by The Passions.
As well as producing, the Pet Shop Boys proffer an additional 'Symphonic mix'; further remixes come courtesy of Kompakts heroes: Gui Boratto, Jurgen Paape and Mark Reeder.
Taylor-Wood has dabbled in pop before, singing on two previous collaborations with Pet Shop Boys: covers of Serge Gainsbourg's 'Je t'aime...moi non plus' and, under the pseudonym Kiki Kokova, Donna Summer's 'Love to Love You Baby'. She first worked with the duo in '97 when she created the visuals and staging for their live show Somewhere at London's Savoy Theatre.

I have not yet heard the whole remix pack version of 'I'm In Love With A German Filmstar', but for your reference here's the video for Taylor-Wood: 'I'm In Love With A German Filmstar'.