The trip-hop production duo of
Peter Kruder and
Richard Dorfmeister has gained more fame for its stellar remixes and DJ sets than as producers of its own work. By engineering reworkings of tracks by a cast of artists ranging from
William Orbit and
Bomb the Bass to
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and
United Future Organization, the Austrian duo became one of the most respected names in the dancefloor community.
Kruder & Dorfmeister's standing increased with the issue of two acclaimed 1996 DJ albums:
Conversions for Spray/BMG and
DJ Kicks for Belgium's Stud!o K7. After forming their own G-Stone Records, the pair found a distribution deal with Quango and released the
G-Stoned EP in mid-1996. Though they remained busy with remix work and DJ gigs during 1997, it wasn't until late 1998 that another release appeared,
The Kruder & Dorfmeister Sessions.
Dorfmeister also appears in the side-project
Tosca with
Rupert Huber, while
Kruder released an album on G-Stoned in 1999 as
Peace Orchestra. [See Also:
Tosca,
Peace Orchestra] ~ John Bush, All Music Guide