The K&D Sessions | Loppylugs

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 14 February 2013 - 10:51pm

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Artist:

Kruder Dorfmeister

album-ID:

a_36

Nationality:

Austria

Year:

1 998

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0000

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Track-listing:

Heroes*Jazz Master*Speechless*Going Under (CD 1)*Bug Powder Dust (CD 1)*Rollin' On Chrome*Useless*Gotta Jazz*Donauschingen*Trans Fatty Acid*Gone*Sofa Rockers*Eastwest*Bug Powder Dust (CD 2)*Boogie Woogie*Where Shall I Turn*1st of Tha Month*Lexicon*Bomberclaad*Going Under (CD 2)*Million Town

Length-in-mins:

127

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_15

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Grooveshark-URL:

The+K+and+D+Sessions+CD1/339695

Short-title:

K+D

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Thursday, 23 October 2008

MusicBrainz-URL:

5869d55e-9a35-3bca-be2c-f7ae47440c62

Wikipedia-URL:

K_%26_D_Sessions

Discogs-URL:

Kruder-Dorfmeister-The-KD-Sessions/master/52323

Allmusic-URL:

the-k-d-sessions-mw0000047051

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Very skillful and clever but perhaps lacking passion

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Back in the day, me and my Hoxton Trendy pals were thinking how brilliant we were, as downbeat grooves like these filled the latest Shoreditch bar that we would be gracing with our presence. This music really caught the mood of the times and K+D were the masters of that sound, the sound of the turn of century young urban professional - cool, cutting edge, thoroughly modern and pixel perfect.

Now that the moment has passed, the limitations of the genre are perhaps more apparent, although FYI me and my mates are still as fantastic as we were then. Criticisms of the music are really criticisms of the genre as a whole; it’s clinical, antiseptic music with all the nasty, rough edges smoothed off; background music that isn't meant to offend anyone nor dominate a setting. Well, it is what it is, but to be fair our Austrian mates do it rather well. There’s fantastic craftsmanship in here and even listening closely to music that perhaps you're not intended to, you can hear the attention to detail and care that has gone into it - a huge variety of sounds and patterns in often sparse arrangements, real human drumming and loads of well balanced treatments to the instrumentation. I think it stands up well enough as an album as a result of the shear variety of sounds, although a double album of background music is asking a lot of anyone.

Examining a couple of tracks next to their originals, it was obvious they'd done a whole lot more than just water them down to fit the vibe - they'd reconstructed them give them a new personality - to be honest the two I looked at were vast improvements on the originals. Overall, though, you might well still have doubts about whether it is really the sort of album you could ever really care about or feel that emotionally attached to. After all, what feeling is it expressing to the listener?
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey