KRUDER & DORFMEISTER - DJ Set - AUSVERKAUFT !

The story of Kruder & Dorfmeister is not just a story of denial and renunciation. When the two started making music together in the early 1990s, they did everything right by accident - by doing many things "wrong".
At the time, Vienna was a metropolis of the up-and-coming techno movement and was active in the first heyday of the revolutionary style. But the two gentlemen K&D were more in the tradition of the continental cosmic "dancefloor" of the 1980s, which was looking for a universal language of dance music, influenced by hip hop, rare groove, dub, new wave and not least music that stood out between all these categories.
When the first post-acid jazz productions by labels such as Ninja Tune or Mo Wax ushered in a new era, Kruder & Dorfmeister were already one step ahead of these protagonists. The sound of K&D's groundbreaking debut G-Stoned, which already seemed to be influenced by the elegiac arrangements of 60s and 70s Afro-jazz and Pink Floyd productions, had many top producers scratching their heads and wondering who could create such an organically flowing, complex yet subtle sound with just two Akai samplers, a Roland Space Delay and a dusty mixing desk.
The offers poured down on them like summer rain, but the two stubborn gentlemen didn't play along: After the success of their million-selling CDs DJ-Kicks and Sessions worldwide, they turned most of them down.
K&D have always enjoyed not listening to advice and ignored all the tempting major offers and promises of the high-speed marketing machinery. Instead, they provided musician friends with distribution on their G-Stone label, hung out in the studio and put together follow-up projects such as Dorfmeister & Huber's Tosca or Kruder's Peace Orchestra.
Anyone who heard the two of them DJing back then realized that they had long since left the cliché of smoky time-loop jazz behind them and made room for their own spirit of exploration. In addition to excursions into drum & bass and subgenres such as broken beat, straightforward 4/4 rhythms also crept into their sets and roughed up the eternal Balearic sunset.
To this day, the two maintain an open concept, characterized by a wide range of musical tastes and the ability to listen, feel and realize their musical ideas. The career of Kruder & Dorfmeister can therefore be compared to that of their great role model Brian Eno, whose work, from Roxy Music or My Life in the Bush of Ghosts to his productions with David Bowie and his Music for Airports, was also characterized by an all-encompassing, always visionary and never short-sighted understanding of music.
From the very beginning, the aim was to produce a very personal sound in which the fulfillment of genre specifications was of secondary importance. Peter Kruder ultimately proved this with his productions of DJ Hell's celebrated albums Teufelswerk and Zukunftsmusik or Marsmobil's chart-topping Fairytales Of The Supersurvivor or the wonderful releases under his own name for Compost, Macro and Gigolo Records. Dorfmeister's incessantly minimalist, almost Dadaist sound studies also clearly point in this direction, as do his collaborations on the highly acclaimed album The Exchange.
So the two are happiest when their music and DJ sets are taken for what they are: Odes to listening, feeling, sensing music and sound language that doesn't work like the many spoken languages of the world, but as a body language: universal, global, connecting.
We are delighted to present one of these DJ sets on March 22, 2024 at the Mojo Club.