DJ Kicks - Kruder & Dorfmeister

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0730003704666 Label: K7 Manufacturer: K7 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: K7 Release Date: 2008-07-07 Studio: K7
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Editorial Reviews: Austrians Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, whose smooth and sexy acid jazz has attracted almost as much attention as their curious resemblance to American folksters Simon and Garfunkel, demonstrate their skills on yet another instalment of Studio K7's DJ Kicks series. The mix highlights the best of European trip-hop, acid jazz, and drum and bass, with their own "High Noon" and "Black Baby" mixed with tracks from British trip-hoppers Herbalizer, German technicians Hardfloor, and Viennese weirdo Patrick Pulsinger, among others. Their straightforward mixing is complemented by a heavy dose of studio postproduction but the emphasis here is on track selection rather than technical trickery. Like their productions, this DJ Kicks is classy, sophisticated, and surprising. --Matthew Corwine
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A must buy Comment: It's a real grower, this album. When I first listened to it, I couldn't see what the fuss was about, really. It sounded just like another chill-out CD, albeit better than the others. But after repeated listens, I started to appreciate how accomplished it was. The mix is so seamless that you can't work out where one track stops and another begins. Basically, if this is a chill-out CD, then it pretty much redefines the whole genre. This is not about loosely stringing together some nice tunes; this is about sounds, tempo, and rhythm. Normally with a review, I'd point out the good tracks, but in this case it's pretty much irrelevant here. The tunes picked by K&D merely help them achieve the tempo and rhythm they want. Each tune has been masterfully tweaked and re-engineered. It's dub, drum & bass, funk and jazz. My brother, who is a classically trained, loves it. Basically, this is head and shoulders the best of the DJ Kicks series, and quite possibly the best chill-out album ever made. Customer Rating: Summary: It doesn't get better than this... Comment: Kruder & Dorfmeister created the benchmark for the DJ Kicks series and at the same time put it on the proverbial 'Dance map'. Seamless mixing throughout leaves the listener dumbfounded as to where each track starts and ends. Track selection is innovative and fresh. There are those that complain about 'knowing ' some of the songs... Okay, at this stage many people who listen to dance music regularly will have heard some of the tracks on this album. But so what? It came out a good while ago and still wreaks havoc with partygoers, and isn't that the true test of a good CD? For newcomers to the Dance music genre this DJ Kicks release is a cornerstone. It blends many different genres and produces an educated and innovative sound that breaks down barriers rather than puts them up. Neither before nor since this release have any of the other DJ Kicks albums come close. The also rans :-Smith and Mighty got lost in a cut & paste D&B haze and lost the plot. Thievery did the job okay but were rather predictable and created a somewhat forgetful mix and Kid Loco missed the boat completely with his DJ Kicks album. Get K&D DJ Kicks and learn. Play it for your mother some Sunday afternoon. Bring it to a party and put it on at midnight...... Customer Rating: Summary: Chill classic that deserves to be bought Comment: I was thinking back one about how Musik Magazine used to do lovely little round ups of the year, Top 100 albums, Top 100 singles, all that sort of the malarkey back in the day when the quality of these lists were undiluted with commercial rubbish and hype. I cast my mind back to the last quality one I could remember, vague memories brought back an issue where DJ Shadow had topped the Top 100 albums with Endtroducing and then I remembered that this had snuck in at the top of the Top 100 compilations. So take stock that its in very good company if its sharing the limelight with Endtroducing. I'd passed over this enough times in the shops before deciding to take the plunge with it. I should have really got it long before. Downtempo beats sit alongside jazz drum and bass, all with the emphasis on chillage. Great tracks like Mother (For Your Revolution) from the earlier days of The Herbalizer, and the jazzy take on of Blue Moon with K&D's very own High Noon. The guys apparently spent 3 whole days giving this the full mix down in the recording studio and it shows. The mixes flow around tempos and styles with ease without jarring or sounding erratic. Listen how the exclusive outro track from K&D mirrors the samples and moods of the starter from The Herbalizer for example, some real thought has gone into crafting the perfect CD. This deservingly sat at the top of the tree back on its release and nowadays its still as good and puts most other 'chill' releases to shame. Its the best thing I've heard from K&D, and if this floats your boat like it did mine, you can do no wrong to head to the K&D Sessions album they did. Customer Rating: Summary: Class grooves... Comment: A class album in both its production and its selection of mixes, "DJ Kicks" shows just how good electronica, drum & bass... whatever you want to call it... can be made to be in skilled hands. Incredibly effective in its sequencing of the complex, multi-layered instrumental & vocal loops that drive most of the selected tracks, and underpinned by some wonderfully deep bass hooks and lock-tight percussion overlays, Kruder & Dorfmeister craft a kaleidoscopic musical journey that just gets better & better with repeat playing. These guys know how to generate "atmosphere" but in the case of "DJ Kicks" they also create something that builds through tracks 1 to 13 into something genuinely "exciting". By track 3 the urge to dance has become irresistible and after a short respite to catch your breath at the start of track 8 we're off again for a further 25 minutes of super-cool club grooves, leaving the more erratic last four tracks as a slight let down, but only because you just want it to keep on going... higher & higher. Time to hit the replay button. Customer Rating: Summary: What about the future, K and D have just saved it. Comment: It’s a shame that K and D have only released a very limited number of CD's because its stuff like this that makes you think, how would I survive without music???? From the opening thundering bass lines of the Herbalizer to the uplifting vibe of Livin' Free you get the impression that this is going to be something uniquely special. I defy anyone to listen to Statick Sound System's 'Revolutionary Plot' and not comprehend your life so far on this planet, the tunes ARE THAT DEEP. Every track deserves a mention cos each one is in a class of its own plus as a whole this cd has been expertly crafted and melded into tripped up bliss. If you have listened to other K and D stuff and even vaguely liked it then my advice is BUY THIS CD NOW. More Reviews