G Stone Book [Box set]

Product Description
Very cool book & CD from the G-Stone label that Kruder & Dorfmeister run. The book features unseen & private photos, classic G-Stone artwork, & exclusive K & D interviews. The CD includes all the best tracks released on the label from it's inception in 1993 up to 2000. Tracks on the CD include, K & D 'High Noon', Tosca 'Chocolate Elvis', Tosca 'Fuck Dub' (Haaksman Version), Tosca 'Orozco' (Dubphonic Remix), K & D 'Deep Shit 1 & 2', Farda P 'From Babylon To Vienna Voiceover', Tosca 'Chocolate Elvis' (Boozo Bajaou Mix), Kieser & Velten 'Dubolition', Peace Orchestra 'Domination', Tosca 'Busenfreund', Stereotype & Soothsayer 'Dub Club', Sugar B 'Little Irie', & more.

Tracks:

High Noon - Kruder & Dorfmeister
Chocolate Elvis - Tosca
Fuck Dub/Haaksman Version - Tosca
Shades - Walkner-Moestl
From Babylon To Vienna Voiceover - Farda P
Chocolate Elvis (Boozoo Bajou Mix) - Tosca
Dubolition - Kieser-Velten
Domination - Peace Orchestra
Busenfreund - Tosca
Dub Club - Stereotyp+Soothsayer
Little Irie - Sugar B
Heaven Or Hell - Walkner Moestl
Orozco (Dubphonic Mix) - Tosca
Bonus Track - Kruder & Dorfmeister

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Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

The CD is Awesome~~.......2006-06-16

I haven't purchased the book, but the CD has been underrated in my opinion. It is one of my favorite CD's of all time, and while it may not be someone else's, I would recommend it to anybody.

Nearly every song on this CD is by K&D themselves, just under different established aliases (Tosca [Dorfmeister], Peace Orchestra [Kruder], and from what I've read Farda P and Sugar B being both K&D.)

The 2nd Chocolate Elvis mix is actually a mix by Boozoo Bajau (another artist you should check out) and sounds very different than the original mix (track 2). Both of these mixes are instant classics, along with High Noon. If you don't buy this CD (w/ book or otherwise) then make sure you hear some of their original tracks on one of their other CD's.

I'm only not giving it 5 stars because I haven't seen the book and I read that it falls apart. Although if I knew how much I'd enjoy the CD I woulda paid $40 for it at the beginning, so that justifies this review :)

K&D are awesome - this book is average.......2006-06-01

The G-Stone book is interesting and amusing to flip through, but there isn't a whole lot of substance to be found. The flimsy binding cannot support the size of the book. One should turn the pages *very* carefully so as not to destroy the binding, thus making it rather annoying to look through. There are, however, many interesting pictures within. The organization is pretty strange. I'm fairly sure that the book is totally bilingual, but all the written segments are presented in a sort of random order, so I can't be absolutely positive and everything written in English is represented in German and vise-versa. There is an interesting bit about the concept for the Peace Orchestra foldout picture and a couple first-hand accounts of K&D DJ sets.

The CD is a decent compilation of G-Stone artists. The standout tracks are, of course, from Kruder and Dorfmeister, Tosca, and Peace Orchestra, but the others are not bad either. With only 14 tracks, it is rather curious to find "Chocolate Elvis" appearing twice (in different mixes). It's also strange that 5 out of the 14 tracks are by Tosca. Again, not necessarily a bad thing - just strange. If you already own the bulk of K&D's respective output, there's not much here of interest. If you're new to G-Stone, the CD will be a nice introduction, but the $40+ price tag makes the purchase a bit of a risk.

This is really more of a scrapbook than anything else. If a Kruder and Dorfmeister scrapbook sounds good to you, then you'll dig this.

Very expensive for a CD and mini-book.......2006-01-29

The music is great, however very expensive for $40. If you are mostly interested in the music, spend the $40 on buying the best albums from which these tracks were selected from. Disappointing that it's only a single CD. I would have expected a book from a label come with at least two.

The 'book' is an interesting collection of pictures (several Photoshop'ed for entertainment value) and some random writings. This is not a coffee-table book. It's the size of a CD and about twice as thick as a standard jewel case. When I first opened it, it literally feel apart into two pieces (which it obviously wasn't supposed to do).

I give the 'book' one star and the CD three, for an average of two. If this cost, say, $15 or maybe $20 it would be worth it. But $40? For a single CD and a CD sized book filled with random content? No, don't bother unless you are a hard-core fan trying to gather collectibles.

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The Berliner Barock Compagney plays odd German consort music

Scherzi Musicali

Manufacturer: Capriccio
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00002DG3V
Release Date: 1999-11-02

Customer Reviews:

The Berliner Barock Compagney plays odd German consort music.......2000-10-05

This CD is a hoot! It opens with Johann Fischer's (1646-1716) "Musical Composition on the world-famous Lüneburrg Salt Refinery", a plodding piece depicting the toiling of salt and brine makers.

Next in line is Georg Phillip Telemann's "Gulliver" Suite from "Der getreue Music-Meister" which was written upon the appearance of the German translation of "Gulliver's Travels". There are movements for the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, Houyhnbnms, and the boorish Yahoos.

Johann Joseph Fux's Synfonia, K. 331 (the same Köchel of Mozart fame) has no subtitle, but its individual movements describe the occupants of foreign lands including the Turks, the Gauls, and the Janissaries.

A piece for viola da gamba and basso continuo from Marin Maris musically outlines the procedure for removing a gaul stone or kidney stone with screeching narration in French.

The highlight of this whole disc, however, is Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's sonata "On the day of the fart", in which two violins and two violas construct a very elegant baroque consort sonata with the added commentary of a very raucous and pungent bassoon part.

The sonata begins in a stately enough fashion with Schmelzer laying out each musical idea and repeating it in typical consort music fashion. After a couple of these ideas, the bassoon, as a dinner guest with an overly active digestive tract, interrupts the proceedings by breaking wind in no uncertain terms. This raucous basson farting just had my wife and I laughing our heads off. As Mozart purportedly said, "Everyone understands how to play a splendid arse basson." Needless to say, the bassoon gets to end the sonata with a final flatulent blast.

The Compagney then gives a rousing performance of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Sonata Representativa for solo violin with its tweeting and chirping bird calls.

To end the program, Schmelzer gets a chance at redemption with the well-mannered sonata "The Fencing School" for two violins, viola, and basso continuo. After Schmelzer's gastro-intestinal endeavors, the thrusting and parrying of the fencers is reminiscent of more dignified aspects of court life in 17th Germany.

Anyway, this CD is well worth having for Schmelzer's farting sonata, the Fux symphony, and Fischer's tribute to the salt workers alone. The rest of the program is equally well played.

Berliner Barock Compagney performs on period instruments, which is especially important, because there's no way a modern instrument could produce the sounds needed to pull off the antics of the bassoon player in Schmelzer's farting sonata.

FYI, the CD cover lists the performing time as 50 minutes, but the inside notes state 67 minutes, which is correct. All in all, the is a well filled, nicely played CD of some of the more creative output from German baroque composers who flourished in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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