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Kruder & Dorfmeister’s story is not just a story of refusal and renunciation. As the two started making music together in the early 1990s, there was hardly anything that they didn’t do “wrong” — and therefore, exactly right.

As the first post-acid jazz productions of labels like Ninja Tune or Mo Wax heralded a new era, Kruder & Dorfmeister were already a step ahead. The sound of K&D’s groundbreaking debut G-Stoned, influenced by the elegiac arrangements of 1960s and 1970s Afro-jazz and Pink Floyd, left many top producers wondering how such an organically flowing, complex yet subtle sound could be generated with only two Akai samplers, a Roland Space Delay, and a dusty mixer.

Anyone who heard them DJ during that time noticed that the cliché of smoky time-loop jazz had long been left behind. Their sets evolved through drum & bass, broken beat, straight 4/4 rhythms, and a roughened-up Balearic sunset vibe.

To this day, they maintain an open concept influenced by wide-ranging musical tastes and an ability to deeply hear and feel music. Their career is often compared to that of Brian Eno — from Roxy Music and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts to collaborations with David Bowie and Music for Airports — guided by a visionary, genre-transcending understanding of music.

Kruder & Dorfmeister are happiest when their music and DJ sets are taken for what they are: odes to hearing, feeling, and sensing tonal language — music that functions not like spoken language, but like body language: universal, global, unifying.

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Kruder & Dorfmeister

Sept 23, 2026 | 9:00 PM