XXHighEnd

Been spending a bit of time at home recently, so listening a bit more. I'm guessing one or two others are in a similar position! Anybody got any recommendations of new music? Particularly with a view to showing off the system...

Not new music by any means...very much high school memories for me but at least on the face of things right for these times..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg)

For a week by now (yes !) I am playing all I can find from Kruder & Dorfmeister (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruder_%26_Dorfmeister) (this page is Dutch, but contains more "discography" than the English page).

The odd thing is that I found these guys only a year ago (call me slow) and at that moment I apparently by accident obtained the more "ambient" like albums from them. And well, I still (also all of the others) store them in my Ambient Gallery, however, I actually don't know where to put the various albums which are all of an actually different genre; this probably is the reason why I can play them for a week by now (not the same albums of course).

For example the one you see pictured below (the last one in the player from last night) I registered under Dance. So there you go Jack, that has to be yours (haha). But as the WikiPedia page tells, it is triphop like, but also hiphop, it is ambient for sure, it is downtempo in its best fashion, drums and bass ditto (especially watch for the drumming breaks !) with stiff and good and interesting electric bass and it is and remains always interesting. It is also the very first (really so) group who can present "remixes" as long as a complete album, all from the same base track, you estimating that the next track will even be more interesting than the one currently playing. The Fuck Dub Remixes from their Tosca reincarnation (see Wiki page) is a best in this. Btw, no explicit lyrics anywhere, although "hip-hop" and this album title suggests it. Just nice Austrian guys.

Mind you, it is thus not the Kruder & Dorfmeister "band" but also Kruder solo, Dorfmeister solo, and each with other band names as well. Just get them all (Tidal) and well, try them all. I guess the Kruder & Dormeister band itself could be the least interesting. Tosca the most. But Richard Dorfmeister vs. Madrid De Los Austrias as how the Wiki page mentions it, the most happy olé Spanish. And fast on the percussion(s) (a good system tester).

Quite common to all of them is an opera-like high-pitched "whooa" which probably and logically is emphasized most on the Opera album from Tosca.

I hope you have fun with it and that it may kill the time a little for those locked down indeed (this includes me too).
Peter

Hi Peter,

You may know this but since you didn't mention it, there is also The Peace Orchestra from  Peter Kruder - 

https://tidal.com/browse/artist/4005790

Thanks so much for the new  XXHE! I am looking forward to appreciating all your hard work! I hope you and your family are staying healthy and doing well.

Best,

David

Hi there David ! - long time ... How's the soup these days ?
haha

Yes, I already had those. But I wonder whether I ever listened to them. So I put them in my Listen Gallery a week ago (all very easy with the new functionalities, if you can find it :-) - but I didn't end up listening to them yet.

Thanks !
Peter

Hi Peter,

I'm still waiting for the soup recipe!  :smile: We have been baking a lot of bread though with all the mouths to feed here.

Thanks for bringing up K&D again. I bought the CDs for K&D Sessions in the late 90's when I was in Madrid and have those two disks as a soundtrack which brings me back to Spain every time.

I have not listen to Peach Orchestra's  "Reset" before but have it on now. Is it my imagination or does XXHE11 sound quite a bit better than 10 right from the start?

David

For what it's worth, these aren't new but I constantly go to them because I like the sound and the way they are mixed-

The Acid, both- https://tidal.com/browse/artist/5412740

Tirzah, Devotion- https://tidal.com/browse/album/92654764

Smerz, both albums- https://tidal.com/browse/artist/7576989

No imagination ...