Great article! I do love K&D Sessions cd! As another reader, I listened it for the first time when I was a young adult and my musical taste was forming, so it had a huge impact. Another album that had an impact was Jazzanova's "The remixes 1997-2000".
Great article, thank you. I have a soft spot for K+D and this era of music as it was just kicking off at the beginning of my teenage musical appreciation. I agree that these guys were perhaps unfairly maligned during the 2000s; trip-hop becoming seen as slightly polite background music for dinner parties and adverts.
Maybe because it wasn't on K+D sessions and so it was less overplayed for me, but I really like their remix of Madonna 'Nothing Really Matters'
Good point. I think there was a lot of polite background music labeled as 'trip-hop' in the late 90s and 00s, mainly as a result of labels trying to copy the success of the first wave of trip-hop artists. And yes, K+D Sessions were surely overplayed. But I've listened to them over the past weeks quite constantly, and they've aged really well.
That Madonna remix is great indeed! I love the original too. Still my favorite album of hers.
I retired 4 short and two tall Billy bookshelves earlier this year… traded for a custom built in bookshelf that wraps around a corner and looks fantastic. None of the Billies were from the 90s… we didn’t even have IKEA in Texas in the 90s that I recall. Two of the short ones were 15 years old; two other shorts were 12 years old, and the two tall ones were maybe 6 or so. I screwed some support brackets into the back and repurposed them as garage and storage closet shelving, and they’re still going strong, albeit no longer as bookshelves.
The Terranova one might be my favourite just because of its breadth (plus it's got one of the hardest East Coast rap songs of all time, "Tried By 12"). The Smith & Mighty and the Kemistry & Storm ones are also top pedigree as well. The K & D one though, was my first and had a huge influence on me.
Yup, all of those were great. That East Flatbush Project tune was hard.
I might add DJ Cam and Kid Loco. Then after that, they kind of lost me for a while, but still every few years a very good one came out, even until this day.
Great article! I do love K&D Sessions cd! As another reader, I listened it for the first time when I was a young adult and my musical taste was forming, so it had a huge impact. Another album that had an impact was Jazzanova's "The remixes 1997-2000".
Thanks, Alex! Yes, Jazzanova from Berlin were great. Trüby Trio and Thievery Corporation were in that same lane as well.
Great article, thank you. I have a soft spot for K+D and this era of music as it was just kicking off at the beginning of my teenage musical appreciation. I agree that these guys were perhaps unfairly maligned during the 2000s; trip-hop becoming seen as slightly polite background music for dinner parties and adverts.
Maybe because it wasn't on K+D sessions and so it was less overplayed for me, but I really like their remix of Madonna 'Nothing Really Matters'
Good point. I think there was a lot of polite background music labeled as 'trip-hop' in the late 90s and 00s, mainly as a result of labels trying to copy the success of the first wave of trip-hop artists. And yes, K+D Sessions were surely overplayed. But I've listened to them over the past weeks quite constantly, and they've aged really well.
That Madonna remix is great indeed! I love the original too. Still my favorite album of hers.
I retired 4 short and two tall Billy bookshelves earlier this year… traded for a custom built in bookshelf that wraps around a corner and looks fantastic. None of the Billies were from the 90s… we didn’t even have IKEA in Texas in the 90s that I recall. Two of the short ones were 15 years old; two other shorts were 12 years old, and the two tall ones were maybe 6 or so. I screwed some support brackets into the back and repurposed them as garage and storage closet shelving, and they’re still going strong, albeit no longer as bookshelves.
Well done! I adore all those DJ-KICKS remix, I collected them.
Thanks! Yeah, some of them were quite formative to me back then – the Terranova and the Andrea Parker one as well.
The Terranova one might be my favourite just because of its breadth (plus it's got one of the hardest East Coast rap songs of all time, "Tried By 12"). The Smith & Mighty and the Kemistry & Storm ones are also top pedigree as well. The K & D one though, was my first and had a huge influence on me.
Yup, all of those were great. That East Flatbush Project tune was hard.
I might add DJ Cam and Kid Loco. Then after that, they kind of lost me for a while, but still every few years a very good one came out, even until this day.
For me Andrea Parker and Carl Craig, I still follow them.