K&D Sessions

Studio K7 releases the follow-up album to DJ-Kicks in a double CD format. This colelction of Kruder & Dorfmeister's work over the years mixed in a DJ-Kicks format, continuing the spriti of their first album. Each of the CD's show K&D's unique and highly snesitive mixture of Latin, dub, & bass and downtempo beats. Amazon.ca 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 Marshal