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When Kruder & Dorfmeister's downbeats ruled the world

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Stephan Kunze
Aug 03, 2024
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According to the late Austrian journalist Sven Gächter, everyone owned at least two things in the 1990s.

A white Ikea Billy bookshelf and a Kruder & Dorfmeister CD.

There’s some truth to that bonmot. The Viennese duo’s ambient trip-hop was truly inescapable. You heard it in clubs and cafés, in boutiques and in your friends’ apartments, which were crammed …

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