Artist: Kruder & Dorfmeister
Album: The K&D Sessions
Year: 1998
Designer: Update: Photography and sleeve design by Oliver Kartak at OKA_Lab (Thanks Dean!)
Type of music: brilliant dubby, dreamy chill-out mix for the sort of hazy days perfectly depicted on the cover.
Notes: This is the first post of what we hope will be many. Hard Format is a joint project brought to you by Justin (300dpi) and Colin (EleventhVolume) – it’s our place to celebrate the physical media we love. Due to Justin’s busy schedule, I get to make the inaugural post and thought I’d focus on this CD recently acquired from my local library for the princely sum of £1. Handled by who knows how many hands in its life of public service, it’s ended up a little distressed (in both senses of the word), but what a lovely object it is. The penultimate track on the first CD fails to play, but I think that’s just part of the experience. Shelved between other CDs, its weathered spine catches the eye, its worn surfaces feel soft and downy to the touch. All in all, it’s acquired something a talismanic charge for me.
Its art in itself!
hehe… this worn out version even looks better than the new one! Fits better to the status of the album, it was played in germany so often till the beginning of 2k … couldn’t listen to it anymore. but now it’s about time to get it back on the turntables! as retro.
Proabbly one of my all time fave albums. The booklet contained a lovely sort of poster with sun-bleached, stoned- out sunflowers on one side…
Great stuff…
Sadly, by the time I bought this at a library sale, the poster/booklet was long gone… They’re playing the Roundhouse sometime later this year – fancy going?
I’m Dr.Frequency from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A colleague from work asked me if I’ve ever heard something from Kruder & Dorfmeister, and I said that no. He recommend me to try to listen online a few samples.
As soon as I heard those samples, I knew I would love to have the CD. So I bought it in the U.S.
I’d like to tell you that I can’t stop listening those Tunes on the go, in the car, when walking, biking…
I think that would be great if I ever have the opportunity to listen this Album on a Hi-Fi or High End Audio equipment.
Summarizing: Great Album. Highly recommended if you’d like to hear Trip Hop, Downtempo, Drum&Bass and Dub.
I Really hope someday to have Kruder & Dorfmeister visiting our country on a Tour Date.
I’m Love it!
A favourite album that I’ve seen and listened to many times, but never owned.
Have you considered doing a hardformat mobile app?
Hello Al, fancy seeing you here! Funny you should ask that – I’d never thought of a Hard Format iPhone app. It’s a great idea. I’ll investigate what it would involve, though I suspect I’d be out of my depth technically.
That this album is loved by many and stands as a benchmark in electronic music goes without saying , and I also have my very own , and very much treasured copy .
Your project seems to reflect the japanese sense of “sabi” in it’s nature , a belief that an
object acquires it’s own individual personality as it ages and is therefor appreciated as being unique , even if , as is the case with your subject , it was initially mass-produced .
Thanks Chickenbento, you’re right :-)
hi all,
I’m trying to find anywhere the printing (picture) with the field of sunflowers that is within the album (SUPERB ALBUM) KD SESSION by K&D.
have u got a jpeg or similar in high resolution possibly?i’d like to have a poster in my room with that.
ty in advance
Sorry Paulo I don’t have copies of the JPGs any more. You can still buy the album and could then scan it at a higher resolution than a camera would take.
If you like K&D you’ll probably like Nightmares on Wax. You need to hear SubMachena too. SubMachena is a Caribbean-styled dub project, with sweet beats. It features Rawle Bruce and Robin Taylor-Firth. Robin is also the keyboard player/programmer/songwriter with Nightmares on Wax.
SubMachena make big dirty dubs, with massive basslines and evil beats. Light up a fat one and go stomp.