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FROM ANDROMEDA AND BACK RADIO: SKIES THAT DO NOT FADE

I remember being in Chicago back in the day, listening to an FM rock station. After a bevy of alternative rock, the DJ suddenly put on the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. At the art store where I worked, one of the young hipsters immediately yelled, "Tchaikovsky!" and began conducting with her hands. I'll never forget that moment. We had gone from, say, Throwing Muses to Tchaikovsky, and I remember thinking: How cool was that? Here was music making its own case. It didn't plead. It didn't demand. In its own way, it rocked. And then, after that glorious interlude, it was back to alternative rock. The funny thing was that the classical piece had not seemed out of place. It held its own. It brought to the table its own heft, its own weight. It wasn't preachy. It wasn't better than. It was simply another fiber in the fabric of the day. And maybe that's the way great music should be heard. Not fenced off by genre. Not placed behind glass. Not approa...
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FROM ANDROMEDA AND BACK RADIO: JAZZ MASTER


 

What would I have been in a pretend past life?

A “Roundhead General,” as the Pet Shop Boys sing?

Not for me.

I’d rather imagine myself as a KCRW DJ who, like Chuck D says, “gets on the mix late in the night.”

Give me 2 to 4 A.M. on Sunday and Monday mornings. Right after the bars have closed, the streets have emptied, and everybody still awake could use a little adventure to get them through the week.

And on my first show?

Kruder & Dorfmeister.

The Architects of Cool.

Their sublime The K&D Sessions is a collection of remixes like no other, and their reworking of Alex Reece’s “Jazz Master” is exactly where I’d begin.

They take the track and elevate it with a touch of bossa nova joy. Then comes that sprinkle of female vocal, riding across the music like spring air after a brutal winter.

The concoction is a gift of cool.

Imagine the cocktail that lands just right: fizzy, just sweet enough, sneakily potent—and, for all of that, cool in its very foundation.

That’s “Jazz Master.”

That’s our first record.

Kruder & Dorfmeister – “Jazz Master” (K&D Session), from The K&D Sessions. Original by Alex Reece.

The bars are closed.

The roads are open.

There are still a few lights burning out there.

And we’ve got somewhere to go.

Welcome to From Andromeda And Back Radio.

It’s journey time.

Buckle up.

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