For a week by now (yes !) I am playing all I can find from
Kruder & 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
