Concert review: Kruder & Dorfmeister thirty years of visions (info and ladder)

How time passes. It was 1999 – or so – when, just over twenty years old and with the world still to be conquered, I found myself in the abandoned area of Breda in Milan.

That evening there was an interminable row, such as the current ones of the coolest events in the Fuorisalone. There was that electrical feeling that you can only breathe to the events destined to become myth.

In the console, a duo of Viennese DJs who was redefining the concept of Club Culture: Kruder & Dorfmeister.

That evening I discovered a vision of music that went further: a futuristic amalgam of drum and bass, dub, trip hop and liquid electronics, capable of insinuating itself under the skin and moving the body without asking for permission.

Over twenty -five years later here we are at the Fabrique in Milan for the only Italian date of The K&D Sessions Live, a tour that celebrates the three career decades of the duo.
The room, like that evening it is crowded, full of memories. I spent the fifty and unfortunately I did not conquer the world, on the contrary, perhaps, sometimes, it seemed to me to lose it.
With me a varied people. No more twenty -year -olds hype but fifty -year -olds with a few more wrinkles, lots of hair less and white beards but with the same curious gaze of that time.

On stage, set up like a sunflower field, however, something really changed: no longer only two chine figures on console and laptop, but a real band to give body and breath to the sounds. Battery, bass, guitar, percussion, winds and keyboards: a formation that transforms beat and samples into a living, organic, powerful symphony. Kruder & Dorfmeister's music has aged very well and is still a vision and future.

Their “session” – which has already become cult in the late nineties – is not an exercise of nostalgia, but a declaration of aesthetic consistency and sound vision. Time has passed, yes. But the intensity with which those bass cross the chest is the same. Indeed, perhaps deeper. More aware.

The power of music, after all, lies precisely in this: to be a place to find yourself, every time, different yet identical.

Score 8.00

The setlist

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Heroes (Kruder's Long Loose Bossa)
(Roni Size / Reprezent Cover)
Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)
(Sofa Surfers Cover)
Trans Fatty Acid (K&D Session ™)
(Lamb Cover)
Rollin 'On Chrome (Wild Motherfucker Dub)
(Ashrodelics Cover)
Jazz Master (K&D Session ™)
(Alex Reece Cover)
Gone (K&D Session ™)
(David Holmes Cover)
Going Under (Main Version) (K&D Session ™)
(Rockers Hi -Fi Cover)
Bug Powder Dust (K&D Session ™)
(Bomb The Bass Cover)
Donoueschingen (Peter Kruder's Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesgellschaftskapitänskajütenmix)