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Kruder & Dorfmeister

 
Artist: Kruder & Dorfmeister
  • Formed: 1993, Vienna, Austria
  • Genres: Electronica
  • Representative Albums: "The K&D Sessions," "DJ-Kicks," "Conversions: A K&D Selection"
  • Representative Songs: "High Noon," "Deep Shit, Pts. 1 & 2," "Original Bedroom Rockers"

Biography

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 reworkings of tracks by a cast of artists ranging from William Orbit and Bomb the Bass to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and United Future Organization, the Austrian duo became one of the most respected names in the dancefloor community.

Kruder & Dorfmeister's standing increased with the issue of two acclaimed 1996 DJ albums: Conversions for Spray/BMG and DJ Kicks for Belgium's Stud!o K7. After forming their own G-Stone Records, the pair found a distribution deal with Quango and released the G-Stoned EP in mid-1996. Though they remained busy with remix work and DJ gigs during 1997, it wasn't until late 1998 that another release appeared, The Kruder & Dorfmeister Sessions. Dorfmeister also appears in the side-project Tosca with Rupert Huber, while Kruder released an album on G-Stoned in 1999 as Peace Orchestra. [See Also: Tosca, Peace Orchestra] ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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Kruder & Dorfmeister
Origin Vienna, Austria
Genres Downtempo
Drum and Bass
Lounge
Trip Hop
Years active 1993 - present
Labels G Stone Recordings
Associated acts Tosca, Peace Orchestra, Voom:Voom
Website G Stone Recordings
Members
Peter Kruder
Richard Dorfmeister

Kruder & Dorfmeister, named after members Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, is an Austrian duo most known for their downtempo-dub remixes of pop, hip-hop and drum and bass songs.

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Style

Their mixes are usually flavored with sampler-processed vocals, deep bassline dub, trip-hop elements, bossa grooves and smoothly-shaped echoes to achieve their unique sound. Some of their better-known works include "High Noon," "Original Bedroom Rockers," and remixes of Madonna's "Nothing Really Matters," Depeche Mode's "Useless," Count Basic's "Speechless," Roni Size's "Heroes". Many of their remixes are collected on the double album The K & D Sessions.

Although best known internationally for their remixing work, the duo gained their primary reputation in Europe for their live DJ performances and DJ Kicks album. Kruder and Dorfmeister have their own record studio, G Stone Recordings in Vienna, through which they release many of their own albums, as well as others by Stereotyp, DJ DSL, Rodney Hunter, Urbs, Makossa & Megablast, and Sugar B./Dub Club.

Trivia

The cover of Kruder & Dorfmeister's first album, G-Stoned, bears a black and white photograph of both artists with sans-serif title lettering closely mimicking the cover of the renowned Bookends album of the famous folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. This can be considered both a humorous 'tip-of-the-hat' towards the acclaimed quality of Simon & Garfunkel's music as well as a humorous statement on Kruder & Dorfmeisters perception of their own music, style and their claim for their own standing in modern popular music as a timeless classic duo.

The Austrian band Binder & Krieglstein's name is a satire on Kruder & Dorfmeister.

Discography

Other aliases

Richard Dorfmeister vs. Madrid De Los Austrias (w/ Heinz Tronigger & Michael "Pogo" Kreiner)

  • 2004 - Valldemossa Sunshine Enterprises
  • 2006 - Boogie No More (12") Net's Work International
  • 2006 - Grand Slam (CD) G-Stone Recordings
  • 2006 - Valldemossa Remixed (12") Sunshine Enterprises

Voom:Voom (w/ Christian Prommer & Roland Appel)

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Viennatone (1997 Album by Various Artists)
Replica: The Remix Album (1998 Album by Roni Size)
Gorecki [#2] (1997 Album by Lamb)

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