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The K&D Sessions

~ Kruder & Dorfmeister
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Product details

  • Audio CD (19 Oct 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: K7
  • ASIN: B00000G257
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,752 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #4 in  Music > Dance & Electronic > Trip Hop
    #10 in  Music > Dance & Electronic > Chill Out
    #35 in  Music > Dance & Electronic > Electronica

1. Heroes - Roni Size
2. Jazzmaster - Reece, Alex
3. Speechless - Count Basic
4. Going Under - Rockers Hi-Fi
5. Bug Powder Dust - Bomb The Bass
6. Rollin' On Chrome - Afrodelics
7. Useless - Depeche Mode
8. Gotta Jazz - Count Basic
9. Donaueschingen - Truby, Rainer Trio
10. Trans Fatty Acid - Lamb
11. Gone - Holmes, David (1)
12. Sofa Rockers - Sofa Rockers
13. Eastwest/stoned Together - Mama Oliver
14. Boogie Woogie - Mama Oliver
15. 1st Of The Month - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
16. Lexicon - Kruder & Dorfmeister
17. Bomberclaad Joint - Knowtoryus
18. Million Town - Strange Cargo (1)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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


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Viennese beatsmiths Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister prove themselves to be DJs with a difference on this stellar double-disc set. Instead of simply stringing together favourite tunes of the moment, K&D assemble something much more permanent and notable by gathering their own remixes for both well-known artists (Depeche Mode, Bone Thugs 'N Harmony, RoniSize, Bomb The Bass) and European cult acts (Rainer Trnby Trio, Count Basic, Knowtoryous, Sofa Surfers, Mama Oliver). The unifying thread can be called the K&D sound--a playfully off-beat and bass-heavy funk so singular that it instantly assimilates any piece of music into the K&D canon.
The K&Dsound is a great equaliser, elevating all music to a commonplateau of funked-up metagroove. Kruder & Dorfmeister see to it that vocal drum-and-bass, shady dub, frazzled big-beat,bouncy hip-hop, and down-tempo slink alike are pumped up with anabolic breakbeats, sizzling jazz breaks, and serpentinebasslines. Already indispensable as a compact collection ofK&D's rarest mixes, K&D SESSIONS goes one further, giving it up for two breathless hours and redefining the state of the art of trip-hop in the image of its Austrian saviours.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my few 5-star ratings, 24 Mar 2006
By S. Hartshorn "falmer4all" (Brighton) - See all my reviews
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Simply the best remix album I have come across so far. This K&D album is what I like to call a 'banker'...you could buy it for anybody and defy them not to like it. Parents, aunts and uncles all love this album...oops! There goes the street cred!

Never fear...this is also one of the coolest albums I have, when I say cool, I don't mean cool in a 'this is weird but I will persist because it's apparently really cool' kind of way...this is a smooth album, if it were a drink it would be Baileys or Dooleys on ice (one cube only).

For me the first CD is the best, with the strongest remixes...personal highlights? I am not exaggerating when I say every track, although I do find myself going back to 'Bug powder dust' (smooth snare and great guitar riff), 'rollin' on chrome'(killer bass) and 'Useless' (more killer bass and uber-catchy drum and synth).

I have had this album for 3 years and have only just realised I haven't done a written review. This is my most-played album ever - still drag it out now...BUY IT! (REALLY...unless you are part of the classic FM set or like Country and Western (and are therefore forever lost to the rational world) I defy you not to love it!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant jazz/lounge core music - essential, 27 Jan 2000
This is probably one of my all time favourite albums. Please Mr Kruder and Mr Dorfmeister, can I have some more? If you put jazz,hip hop,latin,d&b and dub altogether in the same pot along with the original releases by artists such as lamb,depeche mode,bones thugs and harmony,bomb the bass,david holmes and many others, K&D are the only guys that could come up with the fluid sounds that grace this release and make it the outstanding album that it is!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, 15 Jun 2007
By Donaldo "Book lover" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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K&D are best known for making smooth, funky, dubbed, smoked-out club mixes. Their published work is rare, and as with this album, completely seminal. These guys are the absolute masters, and their musical instincts are second to none. When I mean instincts, I mean not only knowing which tunes to pick and what order to put them in, but also how to re-engineer each tune so it flows smoothly into the next re-engineered tune. It's hard to describe this album as a `mix' in the conventional sense. Most mix albums take good tunes and put them in a particular order. K& D assimilate them. Some tunes on this album are changed almost beyond recognition, some are just tinkered with. Some tunes I really didn't like are re-engineered into something beautiful. For example - I've never been the biggest fan of Lamb, but K&D's remix of Trans fatty Acid is a moment of real beauty.

What you end up with is an astonishing and painstakingly crafted mix. There are hardly any other artists I can think of who have come up with something this good. Thievery Corporation did a good DJ Kicks mix, but I haven't liked much else of their other stuff. Possibly the only other electronic artist I can think of with better musical instincts is Four Tet.

Buy this for anyone, I promise you they will love it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can't think of the 90' without listening to K&D
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5.0 out of 5 stars All civilised people agree...
Few CDs here get such unanimous approval as this one, but it sometimes helps to know what sort of people are raving about it. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars chill, lounge, dance, electronica and so much more...
Im one of the lucky few to own this on 12". What a blissful album, it contains many different elements of music many of them remixed with that K&D charm. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Brilliance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars almost 10 years on, thousand of listens, and still I love it
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A good friend of mine heard that I listened to Lamb and went 'Oh babycakes...' said he 'You don't want to be listening to that muck! Read more
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