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Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions

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Label: G-Stone Records
Released: 1998.10.13
Time:
 70:19 / 56:27
Category: Electronica
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.g-stoned.com
Appears with: Tosca
Purchase date: 2001.10.13
Price in €: 16,99



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Disc One:
[1] Heroes [Kruder's Long Loose Bossa] (Size) - 6:30
[2] Jazz Master (Reece) - 8:20
[3] Speechless [Drum 'N Bass] (Kruder/Legat) - 6:37
[4] Hifi Going Under [Main Version] (Bush/Plummer/Wittingham) - 8:37
[5] Bug Powder Dust (Simenon/Warfield) - 7:20
[6] Rollin' on Chrome [Wild Motherfucker Dub] (Dorfmeister/Hunter/Kölbinger/Ogunleye/Ongeri) - 5:39
[7] Useless (Gore) - 6:13
[8] Gotta Jazz (Dorfmeister/Legat) - 5:32
[9] Donaueschingen (Appel/Kruder/Prommer/Trüby) - 6:55
[10] Trans Fatty Acid (Barlow/Rhodes) - 8:31

Disc Two:
[1] Gone (Holmes) - 8:29
[2] Sofa Rockers [Richard Dorfmeister Remix] (Sofa Surfers) - 4:30
[3] Eastwest [Stoned Together] (Kühlwein/Weber) - 5:11
[4] Bug Powder Dust [dub] (Simenon/Warfield) - 6:20
[5] Boogie Woogie (Dorfmeister/Kruder) - 3:20
[6] Where Shall I Turn? (Dorfmeister/Hansel/Orel) - 5:53
[7] 1st of Tha Month (Bones/DJ U Neek/DJ U Neek/Powell) - 5:49
[8] Lexion (Dorfmeister/Kruder) - 1:06
[9] Bomberclad Joint (Krause/Reinboth) - 3:47
[10] Going Under [Evil Love and Insanity Dub] (Bush/Plummer/Wittingham) - 4:30
[11] Million Town (Orbit) - 7:32

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RICHARD DORFMEISTER - Performer, Remixing
PETER KRUDER - Performer, Remixing

DEPECHE MODE - Performer
BOMB THE BASS - Performer
STRANGE CARGO - Performer
COUNT BASIC - Performer
RONI SIZE - Performer
SOFA SURFERS - Producer, Performer
MAMA OLIVER - Performer
APHRODELICS - Performer

DAVID HOLMES - Producer, Performer
WILLIAM ORBIT - Producer
HUNTER - Producer
BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY - Producer
TIM SIMENON - Producer
ALEX REECE - Producer
WINNIE WUNDER - Producer
WITTINGHAM - Producer

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1998 CD !K7 38700731
1998 LP !K7 7073
1998 CD !K7 7073

Now available at a much lower price! The trip-hop production duo of Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister has gained more fame for its stellar remixes and DJ sets than as producers of its own work. By engineering, reworking and remixing tracks by a cast of artists including Depeche Mode, William Orbit, Bomb the Bass, Lamb, Roni Size, David Holmes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and United Future Organization, the Austrian duo became one of the most respected names in the dance/electronica community. This 2 CD set is an essential title for any music library!



Kruder/Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions TM - Kruder & Dorfmeister At a time when hip hop beats began to emancipate themselves from the MC, and every head was turned to the UK's nascent breakbeat scene, K&D came from nowhere with a single 4-track EP - G-Stoned, featuring the hypnotic beauty of 'High Noon' and a cover depicting the dj-duo in Simon & Garfunkel form. The impact was massive, and the K&D phenomenon gained momentum as they gathered support from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Wall Of Sound's Mark Jones and William Orbit. Richard's spin off project Tosca began to take shape, and K&D together remixed the likes of Bomb The Bass, Alex Reece, Lamb, Depeche Mode and DJed in more clubs than you would care to count. Be it their self produced tracks or their finely tuned remixes, the K&D feeling of lush loungecore dub transcended the trip hop hype and survived as a highly personal expression that found itself equally at home in the worlds of the ambient experimentalists and the soulful drum 'n' bass pioneers. Their regular presence on the club circuit saw them become welcome guests on the international beat circuit, taking them from Vienna to London, to the American west coast, to Germany and back, tightly packed DJ bags full of exclusive dubplates following every step of the way. A mix CD compilation, DJ Kicks, for German label studio K7 marked a major change in the world's perception of K&D. The quality of the selection, and the power of the mix, which takes you seamlessly through ambient beats, instrumental hip hop, drum 'n' bass and back again, made for a mix-CD of unmatched quality. From being respected underground heroes, they emerged as fully fledged media celebrities, attracting new fans across the globe, and selling close to 100,000 copies of their album in the process. You can find parallels to K&D's work in the British breakbeat or American illbient scene, but their musical blueprint is truly international anyway. They have achieved a special global reputation that makes them neighbours to the likes of DJ Shadow, Howie B, Thievery Corporation and Fila Brazilia in a virtual community of sonic explorers. The package you now hold in your hand is your ticket to the wonderful world of Kruder & Dorfmeister. Gathering together the cream of their remixes / sessions from the last five years, K&D have been immersed in the studio blending these individual parts into a mesmerising body of music, creating two brand new tracks and numerous other musical sections to hone the album's flow to perfection. The fact that many of the tracks featured here have previously been unavailable on commercial formats, only adds to the desirability of 'The K&D Sessions TM'. A K&D interpretation of another artists record has always been more than a remix in the traditional sense; these Austrian perfectionists spend weeks on each 'Session', breaking a track down to its elements and reconstructing it in a way that is uniquely theirs. With 'The K&D Sessions TM' ready to drop, a host of international DJ dates in the pipeline and a remix for Madonna's next single 'Nothing Really Matters' forthcoming, it seems K&D will be unavoidable over the coming months. But stress not and just roll with the G-Stone...

!K7 Records


While Kruder & Dorfmeister remained unwilling to release a "proper" album even several years after their breakout, The K&D Sessions is proof positive they're still doing what they do best — making the most blissfully blunted music the world has ever heard. The two-disc set is first and foremost a K&D mix album, to add to the two they'd already released. It's also a remix collection, though; each of the 21 tracks are reworkings (by Kruder, Dorfmeister, or both) for artists including Roni Size, Lamb, David Holmes, Bomb the Bass, Depeche Mode, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Sofa Surfers, and Count Basic. As could be expected, The K&D Sessions is earthy, downtempo and acid-based, even moreso than previous mix albums by the pair. The pinging vocal samples that echo through the duo's remix of "Bug Powder Dust" by Bomb the Bass prove amply that Kruder & Dorfmeister have a better handle on 21st-century dub techniques than any other producers out there, and the impossibly deep beats on almost every track simply couldn't have been recorded by any other act. Yes, it's a bit of a shame that the pair still hadn't released an album of own-productions, but with (re)mix albums this stunning and accomplished, Kruder & Dorfmeister hardly needed one to gain respect.

John Bush, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



"We've had a sneak preview and it's amazing !" - DJ, 1998

"Any lover of blissful downtempo sounds should get g-stoned to 'Sessions' !" - Mixmag, 1998

"Deep and powerful !" - Loaded, 1998

"In its fusion of seventies vibrationa and nineties cool, this is the ultimate pipe-and-slippers soundtrack for easing pre-millenium tensions. Ah Vienna ...." - The Face, 1998

"All those hard-to-find mixes arranged on one super album making it immediately audible that K&D never repeat themselves." - I-D, 1998



By the late 1990s Vienna production duo Richard Dorfmeister and Peter Kruder had firmly established themselves as remixers par excellence, selecting key elements of other people's compositions and rebuilding them in their unique framework, which saw a collusion of Latin, dub and bossa. This outing on K7 collates their finest works in a double CD set, and though compiled in the spirit of DJ Kicks retains much of each track with the mixing itself barely noticeable as the material segues gently from outtro to intro. All of their best work is here, from the opening strains of Kruder's take on Roni Size's "Heroes" right through to the closing washes of "Million Town," highlights taking the form of a breathtaking, space aged dub of Depeche Mode's "Useless" and "Trans Fatty Acid" from Lamb, which weaves Louise Rhodes' angelic vocal into a sprawling, live groove. Fascinating late-night listening.

Kingsley Marshall - Amazon.co.uk



Viennese trippers Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister fry up beats like a fine Wiener schnitzel. With crisp percussion, tender melodies, and subtle bass flavor, they more than know their way around the production kitchen. Take the remix skills of these two chefs de musique; add a dash of fresh electronic ingredients, including Roni Size, Rockers Hi-Fi, David Holmes, Alex Reece, and others; run it through a beats processor; and you have one sumptuous and definitely not calorie-free meal. Tastier sound bites can be sampled during the Roni Size "Heroes" course, as K&D strip down and reconstruct a new and improved recipe for downtempo soul. Lip-smacking good.

Daniel Shumate - Amazon.com



Kruder and Dorfmeister have been prolific remixers throughout their career and The K&D Sessions collects most of their more remarkable reworkings and let them ooze into each other through a filmy dub mix.

URB



Mit ihrer beim Berliner Label !K7 erschienenen Mix-CD DJ Kicks eroberten die beiden Wiener DJs und Produzenten Peter Kruder und Richard Dorfmeister 1997 die Musikwelt. Schlagartig waren die Mixkünste der beiden österreichischen Szene-Helden in aller Munde, und man hörte den einschmeichelnden Trip-Hop-Wohlklang der Österreicher fortan in sämtlichen Bars, Cafés, Discos und Szenekneipen der europäischen Metropolen. The K&D Sessions ist ein fettes Doppelalbum, auf dem die Wiener wieder einmal ihre Mixkünste unter Beweis stellen. Wobei sich Kruder und Dorfmeister hier etliche Tracks der internationalen Gross-Szene zwischen Trip-Hop, Dub, Drum&Bass, HipHop und Anverwandtem vorgenommen haben. Drum-And-Bass-Helden wie Roni Size und Alex Reece wurden hier ebenso "verarztet" wie Alt-Stars vom Schlage der Synthie-Popper Depeche Mode ("Useless") oder Tim Simeons "Bomb The Bass". Die österreichischen Kollegen der Sofa Surfers profitierten ebenso von den Mischkünsten wie die britischen Rockers HiFi, Lamb und David Holmes, der Freiburger DJ und Producer Rainer Trüby oder die Rapper Bone Thugs `N Harmony und Aphrodelics. Feine Compilation, die mit 126 Minuten Länge dazu noch sehr üppig ausgefallen ist.

Thomas Bohnet - Amazon.de



Kruder & Dofmeister Remixe waren eine zeitlang so unerläßlich für den Erfolg einer Downttemporemix EP wie kaum etwas anderes. Und so wundert es nicht, daß sie unglaublich viele davon gemacht haben. Studio K7 veröffentlicht viele davon hier zum ersten mal auf CD in zwei langen Mixen und nennt es Kifferhausmusik, was den schleppend ruhigen, dubbigen, lang ausatmenden Tracks vielleicht etwas merkwürdig steht, es aber zumindest trifft, was die normale Hörsituation dieser Musik betrifft. Sehr schnulzig und warm, sehr angenehm und latinstyle, mit viel Vertrauen in die jeweiligen Stimmen als Träger des Besonderen gemixte Stücke, die sich in ihrer Art, Kitsch sein zu wollen ohne klebrig zu wirken, fast auflösen.

© DE:BUG - Zeitschrift fr elektronische Lebensaspekte.



Die beiden Wiener Soundtüftler gehören zu den derzeit gefragtesten Remixern - und dies zu Recht, wie ihre neue Doppel-CD beweist: ein bißchen Latin, raffinierte Downbeats, Alltagsgeräusche, Elektrospielereien, im ersten Teil grooviger, im zweiten Teil gebremster arrangiert.

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Before the electronic boom, a studio "remixer" was merely a hired flunky whose raison d'être was to make other people's music more accessible for radio or nightclub play. Now, artists such as Germany's Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister are hyped as pop stars, heralded for their prowess as remixers, DJs and producers. K&D are aural chemists whose skill lies in breaking down tracks to their basic elements and then re-synthesizing them. Remix albums come and go, but The K&D Sessions is a double-CD offering that features the remixers as the main talent. Assembling the best of Kruder and Dorfmeister's remix work (as well as two original cuts) from the past five years, the album's track listing (including artists such as Roni Size, Depeche Mode and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) confirms its eclecticism. But the team effectively rewrites each track using classic funk, lounge, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass and acid jazz elements, resulting in a soulful, cohesive downtempo collection that far exceeds initial expectations to stand as an alluring body of work in its own right.

M. Tye Comer - Nov 30, 1998
CMJ New Music Report Issue: 597 - © 1978-2001 College Media, Inc., Inc.



An impressive and comprehensive double-disc of remixes from the Vienna B(eat)-Boys, Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister.

The K&D Sessions is a long overdue, impeccably mixed compilation from the dynamic production/remixing duo, showcasing its innovative, influential and in-demand "blunted" grooves. The tracks work as a collective unit, setting a mood that takes you on a sensorial journey. This sonic terrain is littered with tripped-out jazz abstractions, manipulated hip-hop, reconstructed drum & bass and soulful, atmospheric downbeats.

K&D Sessions includes Kruder & Dorfmeister's "essential" re-workings of tracks from Roni Size, Depeche Mode, Lamb, Rockers Hi-Fi, Bomb The Bass, David Holmes, Strange Cargo (a/k/a William Orbit) and Bone Thugs 'N Harmony. The duo even tosses in some of its own tracks, such as "Lexicon" and the sensuous, Pink Floyd-esque "Boogie Woogie."

This must-have collection is packed with music for anywhere from the dancefloor to the sofa to the bedroom.

Craig Roseberry - January 8, 1999
Copyright © 1994-2001 CDnow Online, Inc. All rights reserved.



Ihre Musik ist Provokation, Lässigkeit, Eigensinn und dazu diese seltsame Substanz, die sie ´Schmäh´ nennen. Kruder und Dorfmeister, die alle für wahnsinnig erklärten, als sie sich entschlossen, statt den sonst üblichen Künstlernamen ihre eigenen Nachnamen zu verwenden, produzierten 1993 ihre erste Single "G-Stoned". Heute, sechs Jahre später, sind K&D gefragte Remixer und Produzenten mit ihrem DJ-Mix aus Hip Hop, Jazz und Drum´n´Bass. Genau diese Stile bestimmen in den Klubs das Tempo und niemand anders steht so perfekt für diesen Wandel wie die zwei Jungs aus Wien. Peter Kruder, 31, Friseur aus Wien und Dorfmeister, 30, der erfolglos in Wiener Bands herumtingelte, werden oftmals als geniale Schnösel bezeichnet. Sie selbst empfinden sich als komplette Soundfetischisten und verwenden nach ihren eigenen Worten Sounds, die sie irgendwo auf Platten finden, um sie dann elektronisch zu verfremden. "Unser Handwerkszeug ist ein Apple-Computer und drei Kilo Marihuana, dann hat man den Klang im Kopf." Oft kratzen sie sich verwundert am Kopf, weil Plattenfirmen aus aller Welt ihren Stars einen "Kruder&Dorfmeister-Remix-Stempel" aufdrücken wollen und dafür eine Menge Geld bieten. Die meisten Angebote lehnen sie ab und so kommt es, daß sich internationale Pop-Größen wie U2, Grace Jones oder die Fantastischen Vier freundliche aber bestimmte Absagen von den beiden Österreichern einhandeln.

"Wir sehen uns in der Tradition von Mozart und Schubert, das waren auch Eigenbrödler, aber wenn wir so richtig berühmt sind, hören wir auf." Die Berühmtheit ist da und Dorfmeister sinniert: "Der Peter als Starschnitt im Bravo -das hätte er schon gern. Aber das Musikgeschäft ist Sklaverei. Wir arbeiten lieber für unsere eigene Firma "G-Stone" und sind Manager, Sekretärinnen und Buchhalter zugleich."

Seit drei Jahren fliegen sie jedes Wochenende in eine andere europäische Hauptstadt, um Platten aufzulegen - noch 1994 in Hamburg vor sechzig Leuten und jetzt in ausverkauften Hallen. Doch immer wieder geht es zurück nach Wien, der Stadt der "Original Bedroom Rockers". Dort finden sie nach ihren eigenen Worten die verschlurfte Entspanntheit, die sie benötigen, um ihre Tracks zu produzieren.

Nach "G-Stoned" folgten "DJ-Kicks" (1996) und "The K&D Sessions"(1998). Die Art von DJ-Kicks war bis dahin einmalig und damit war klar, daß es doch was gutes geben kann - so aus "Wien hinter'm Berg". Aggression findet in der Musik nicht statt. Kruder empfindet sie melancholisch und nicht böse oder dark - eher "am Fluß interessiert", als an Brüchen. Irgendwann 1999 wollten die beiden ein Buch herausbringen, mit Photos und Texten - so ein kleines absurdes Buch.

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Viennese Whirls

Despite the rise of dance music in the 90s to the point where it’s arguably overtaken rock’n’roll as the defining sound of popular music, remixing is still something of a dirty word. It’s unsurprising given the way pedestrian remixes are continually used as filler on singles and even albums when an artist has run out of inspiration to produce anything new.

That’s not to say that there aren’t remixes which beat the original track hands down - Fatboy Slim’s chart-topping reworking of Cornershop’s "Brimful Of Asha" being a classic example - but they tend to be the sonic exception rather than the rule. Even when remixes are entrusted to other artists, there’s no guarantee of quality, as exemplified by the uniformly awful mixes of Underworld’s floorfilling anthem "King Of Snake", murdered by the likes of Dave Clarke, Slam and, er, Fatboy Slim.

The easy way out is to produce a track that sounds nothing like the original whatsoever. This may well produce something musically more rewarding, but it’s missing the real point of remixing - and that’s bringing something new to a track without destroying what’s there in the first place. Cue Kruder and Dorfmeister, two DJs from Vienna who’ve quietly produced some of the most stunning and startling remixes in the last five years and made it their trademark to leave the spirit of a track intact while twisting it into something utterly different. In fact they've been so quiet this album came out last year and I only heard it a month ago...

The K&D Sessions is a double CD compilation of the best of those mixes - 140 minutes of music that takes in artists as far apart as Roni Size, Depeche Mode, Bomb The Bass and Bones Thugs ‘N Harmony. Citing names is a bit pointless though, because it would be wrong to think of The K&D Sessions as just a bunch of individual remixes, only listening to the tracks where you’re familiar with the original. Half the fun is that K&D take on tracks by folk you’ve never heard of - Rainer Trüby Trio, anyone? K&D revel in mixing all sorts of music, whether it’s rap, jazz, jungle or whatever other genre you care to name. As such, it’s an immaculately crafted, unclassifiable album to get lost in, where every track imperceptibly segues into the next so that you’re never quite sure where you are, but wherever you are is worth hanging around.

As you’d expect from a record on a label called G-Stoned, the overall atmosphere of The K&D Sessions is laid back - you won’t hear any screeching 303s or encounter superfast bpms here. Instead, there are beautifully precise drums and sublimely warm deep bass lines which create their own distinct sound without becoming repetitious. Add their ear for dropping just enough melody over the top to create a simple but opulent sound, and you have music that makes 3 in the morning a wonderful place to be. If you really want a half-arsed "sounds-a-bit-like" reference, then it would have to be David Holmes, but the comparison doesn’t do either parties justice.

K&D are also refreshingly fond of keeping vocal tracks almost intact, rather than obliterating them completely. Nowhere does this stand out more than their sublimely moody mix of Depeche Mode’s "Useless", where Dave Gahan’s weary voice is given centre stage over nothing besides pared down bass and is all the more powerful for it. Not that K&D are techno-angst merchants, producing beautiful but chilly soundscapes in their bedrooms - their sound is organic, elegant, eclectic and endlessly inventive.

In short, then, The K&D Sessions is one of those albums that comes out of the blue, providing a whole bunch of surprises to make even the most jaded get excited about music again. It’s a bit like when a friend gives you a tape of bands you’ve never heard of and you wind up leaping round the living room listening to it. These are remixes which transcend their original incarnations to become K&D’s own and a whole new universe to explore with it. What more do you want for £12.99?

Chris Mitchell gets in a spin about Kruder And Dorfmeister's remix masterpiece The K&D Sessions
 

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