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The K&D Sessions
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Track Listing
- 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)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #15971 in Music
- Released on: 1998-10-19
- Number of discs: 2
- Dimensions: .29 pounds
Customer Reviews
One of my few 5-star ratings
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!
Absolutely brilliant jazz/lounge core music - essential
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!
Amazing
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.
