Kruder & Dorfmeister, named after members

Peter Kruder Peter Kruder (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria) is a Viennese artist, producer and DJ. Together with his partner Richard Dorfmeister he is the founder of the duo Kruder & Dorfmeister and the record label G-Stone Recordings. Since the release of the '' G ...

and

Richard Dorfmeister Kruder & Dorfmeister, named after members Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, is an Austrian duo, known for their trip hop/downtempo remixes of pop, hip hop and drum and bass songs. Career In 1993, they released their first EP '' G-Stoned'' ...

, is an Austrian duo, known for their

trip hop Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop ...

downtempo Downtempo (or downbeat) is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, the style may ...

remixes of pop, hip hop and

drum and bass Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...

songs.

Career

In 1993, they released their first EP ''

G-Stoned ''G-Stoned'' is an EP released by Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. Track listing # "Definition" – 5:09 # "Deep Shit (Pt. 1 and 2)" – 6:22 # "High Noon" – 6:26 # "Original Bedroom Rockers" – 6:07 Liner Notes * All instrument ...

'' featuring the hypnotic "High Noon" and a cover resembling

Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, and their biggest hits—including the electric remix of " ...

's '' Bookends'' to critical acclaim especially from the UK.

Gilles Peterson Gilles Jérôme Moehrle MBE (; born 28 September 1964), better known as Gilles Peterson (), is a French broadcaster, DJ, and record label owner. He founded the influential labels Acid Jazz and Talkin' Loud, and started his current label Brown ...

played the track at first on his BBC show ''Worldwide''. In 2007, the duo were commissioned by

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

to create a set of ringtones and sounds for its luxury

Nokia 8800 Arte The Nokia 8800 (pronounced ''eighty-eight-hundred'') is a luxury mobile phone produced by Nokia, based on the Nokia Series 40 operating system. The 8800 features a stainless-steel housing with a scratch-resistant screen and has a weight of 134 gr ...

and Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte phones. 2010 marked the 16th anniversary of Kruder & Dorfmeister and their record label G-Stone Recordings which resulted in the release of the ''Sixteen F**king Years Of G-Stone Recordings'' compilation and the development of the ''K&D Sessions Live'' show. The show included visuals by longtime G-Stone VJ collaborator Fritz Fitzke and MC performances by Earl Zinger and MC Ras T-Weed. With performances at

The Big Chill Big Chill can refer to: *The Big Chill (music festival), an annual music and comedy festival held in England * ''The Big Chill'' (film), a 1983 American film directed by Lawrence Kasdan *The Big Chill at the Big House, a 2010 U.S. college ice hock ...

Berlin Festival Berlin Festival was an annual two-day outdoor rock/electronic music event that took place every September in Berlin.http://www.berlinfestival.de/ Berlin Festival It was first organized in 2005, and over time its audience grew to about 20,000 vi ...

and other large festivals, the ''K&D Sessions Live'' show became successful and a world tour ensued.

Discography

* 1993 – ''

'' (EP, G-Stone Recordings) * 1996 – '' Conversions: A K&D Selection'' (Spray Records/

Shadow Records Shadow Records was launched in 1995 as an Instinct Records sub-label to focus on the more organic side of the underground electronic music scene. The label's first release in 1995 defined this approach with ''Abstrackt Workshop'', which featured p ...

) * 1996 – '' DJ-Kicks: Kruder & Dorfmeister'' (

Studio !K7 !K7 Music is a music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music. The name is an abbreviation of the company's original Berlin address, Kaiserdamm 7 (it has since relocated, first to Heidestrasse 52, and currently he ...

) * 1996 – ''Black Baby'' (EP, !K7) * 1998 – ''

The K&D Sessions ''The K&D Sessions'' is the second DJ mix compilation album by the Vienna-based duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. Released by Studio !K7 in 1998 to glowing reviews, the album features two original songs among the remixes. Style The compilation album is ...

'' (!K7) * 2002 – ''G-Stone Book'' (Label compilation) * 2008 – ''Shakatakadoodub'' (EP, G-Stone, online only) * 2010 – ''Sixteen F**king Years Of G-Stone Recordings'' (Label compilation) * 2013 – ''

Akte Grüninger ''Akte Grüninger'' is a Swiss-Austrian feature film produced in 2013 for the Swiss television SRF. The television film focuses on events in late summer 1938, when Paul Grüninger saved the lives of up to 3,600 Jewish refugees from Germany and Au ...

'', sound by Richard Dorfmeister * 2020 – ''Johnson'' * 2020 – ''1995''

Aliases

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

(Dorfmeister with

Rupert Huber Rupert W.M. Huber (born 1967 in Mödling, Austria) is an Austrian composer and musician. In 1994, Huber founded ''Huber Musik'' to publish his own music, and in the same year, founded Tosca with Richard Dorfmeister. Huber's 2006 release of ''Fu ...

) :*

Discography Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified music genres. The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography, but a discography entry ...

Peace Orchestra Peace Orchestra is a musical solo project from the Austrian music producer Peter Kruder, best known as one half of Kruder & Dorfmeister. History In parallel to his partnership with Dorfmeister, Peter Kruder has always followed his solo project ...

(Kruder) :* 1999 – ''

'' (G-Stone) :* 2002 – '' Reset'' (G-Stone/

) *Richard Dorfmeister vs. Madrid de los Austrias (Heinz Tronigger & Michael "Pogo" Kreiner) :* 2004 – ''Valldemossa'' (Sunshine Enterprises) :* 2006 – "Boogie No More" (EP, Net's Work International) :* 2006 – ''Grand Slam'' (G-Stone) :* 2006 – "Valldemossa Remixed" (EP, Sunshine Enterprises) * Voom:Voom (Kruder with Christian Prommer and Roland Appel) :* 2000 – "Poppen / Influenza" (EP,

Compost Records Compost Records is a German record label based in Munich and established by Michael Reinboth in 1993. The label is known for progressive downbeat dance and nu jazz releases incorporating influences of bossa nova, techno, and drum and bass. The ...

) :* 2001 – "Ginger & Fred / Influenza Forte" (EP, Compost) :* 2003 – "Baby 3" (EP, Compost) :* 2006 – ''PengPeng'' (

)

References

External links

Kruder & Dorfmeister at Discogs
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Tosca – No Hassle website

DJ-Kicks website
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