December 1998

Today Kruder Dorfmeister The K&D Sessions TM Studio K7 K7037CD Good things come from the strangest places. So it really shouldn't come as a surprise that Austria provides us with two remix maestros. The K&D ingredients are diverse and cool. Dub, drum 'n' bass, hip hop, soul. A touch of jazz here and there. Their clients are also from all over the place. Roni Size, Rockers HiFi, Bomb The Bass, Depeche Mode, to name a few. But the sound is really Kruder & Dorfmeister's own. Now, where are those slippers? And the pipe?

Yesterday Fleetwood Mac Then Play On Reprise 6268-2 So you want to cry out the old year? There are not many better companions you can have than this 1969 masterpiece. I guess most people associate the early, ill-fated version of Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green. But to me, Danny Kirwan was just as important. They wrote their songs separately, and often even recorded alone, yet somehow it all blends together. En route they took the British Blues Boom to a new level. Some of that must of course be credited to the great rhythm section. The group was named after drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. They are also the only original members left today. But that's a completely different story.