The K&D Sessions | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kruder & Dorfmeister
Label: K7
Category: Music
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 6471
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 7073
UPC: 730003707322
EAN: 0730003707322
ASIN: B00000G257
Release Date: October 19, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Heroes - Roni Size | | • | Jazzmaster - Reece, Alex | | • | Speechless - Count Basic | | • | Going Under - Rockers Hi-Fi | | • | Bug Powder Dust - Bomb The Bass | | • | Rollin' On Chrome - Afrodelics | | • | Useless - Depeche Mode | | • | Gotta Jazz - Count Basic | | • | Donaueschingen - Truby, Rainer Trio | | • | Trans Fatty Acid - Lamb | | • | Gone - Holmes, David (1) | | • | Sofa Rockers - Sofa Rockers | | • | Eastwest/stoned Together - Mama Oliver | | • | Boogie Woogie - Mama Oliver | | • | 1st Of The Month - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony | | • | Lexicon - Kruder & Dorfmeister | | • | Bomberclaad Joint - Knowtoryus | | • | 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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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
All civilised people agree... January 6, 2009
P. Neylan (Orpington, Kent, UK)
Few CDs here get such unanimous approval as this one, but it sometimes helps to know what sort of people are raving about it.
Me, I'm a barely reformed headbanger with a taste for prog, jazz-rock and krautrock. My daughter's recent purchase of Absolute Garbage, with its bonus CD of remixes, had finally convinced me that remixing was the most pointless display of unjustified musical arrogance ever devised. I still don't know why I bought this, but I'm glad I did.
Maybe it helps if you don't know the originals or even many of the artists whose work is being abused (though of course I know Depeche Mode and I've since become a fan of Lamb), but K&D are a revelation in the way they sympathetically weave those samples into bossanova-tinged or jazzy grooves that are compulsive and seem totally their own.
Therein lies the key: unlike most remixers, they are not making crude collages from other people's music like three-year-olds who have been given scissors, glue, crayons and a copy of Hello magazine. They are using music to illuminate their own musical statement, which is coherent and consistent in its own right.
Yes, I could identify the stand-out tracks, but that would be to miss the point - although one track, Bomberclaad Joint by Knowtoryus, is so embarrassingly bad I'm sure they must have mixed as a bet; the proposition being that even the great K&D couldn't make it sound good. They lost, though every other bet pays out here. Each CD flows perfectly from beginning to end and would make a perfect soundtrack to a long night indoors.
Many tracks from here provided incidental music for the recent BBC programme Best Of The Real Hustle 2008. But just because it makes great backing music doesn't mean it's soporific wallpaper. Instead there is a cool and flowing intensity, with rhythmic discipline that is energising. Somebody must hate this music, but so far Amazon's reviewing public hasn't found them.
chill, lounge, dance, electronica and so much more... December 28, 2008
K. Ali (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. Evryone should own a copy of this whatever you're musical preferance is theres something in here for everyone. i dont think there one bad review for this album thats says it all really!!......nuff said
Si2wheels March 6, 2008
Si2wheels (Southern England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As with all who have felt compelled to add their thoughts on this amazing double CD, I too find it timeless and one of those rare collections you will never get tired of.
We often drive upto Wales (usually leave around 8pm and get to mid Ceredigian around midnight) and this collection, specially Part 1, is reserved for the last hour or so....nothing like rolling through the night to this sound :)
Hope everyone gets to experience these sounds....thanks to the Bear for recommending it :)
It's the greatest mix album ever, okay? September 24, 2007
Curmudgeon (West Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just take a look at the other reviews - nearly 10 years on and people are still raving about this mix. K&D created something alchemically magical with this album: it is smooth, seamless, yet never boring, and flows with a real sense of progression. And now it's ridiculously inexpensive you'd be crazy not to buy!
Pure Brilliance. June 18, 2007
The Dude (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I usually steer well clear of compilations this is probably my most listened to CD. It doesn't really count as a compilation because the songs are all reshaped and mixed together flawlessly. Both discs are great but I find myself listening to Disc 2 at least daily. The fact that other reviewers have said they prefer Disc 1 shows how consistently great it is. It really is too good for words, you can only listen from start to finish without skipping to hear for yourself. At night there is nothing that comes close to this CD. Disc 1 kicks things off in a relaxing way before Disc 2 cools things down with each track seemlessly transitioning into the next. After years and years of listening its still as good as ever. I found some tracks such as 'Gone' by David Holmes are obviously amazing the first time but others like 'Million Town' by Strange Cargo sound better and better every time, even when overlooked at first.
I would also recommend the earlier K&D DJ Kicks CD that is very similar to this. If you're into any sort of chillout music you can be sure this is worth buying. On its first listen it will be good but after many plays you'll find yourself loving it more and more. When you're in the mood for chillout this never fails. If you've bothered to read this far then you should definitely buy this.
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