Tosca
Dehli 9

The consensual separation of the K&D brand continues, with Richard Dorfmeister "betraying" his partner Kruder with Rupert Huber, an old schoolmate.
It is back to those years that the Delhi 9 project dates.
This is a piece of biographical history of the duo Tosca, the very first collaboration that saw the two companions take their first steps with keyboards, guitars, and flutes, at a time when Midi equipment and VST plugins were not yet as widespread as they are today.

Mindful of these roots, the Viennese duo titles their new work Delhi 9, a juicy double CD in which all sounds are indeed produced live and only later reworked on the computer.

In the first disc, Dorfmeister proposes his classic sound made of dub layers, upon which he embeds pleasant downtempo loops, following the style already tasted in the previous Suzuki, yet differing from it with a more frequent use of vocal contributions and uptempo beats.
The second CD, on the other hand, sees Huber play a dozen piano pieces, originally intended for a separate project, from which Dorfmeister extracts twelve sessions seasoned with subtle electronic intrusions and imperceptible reverbs.

The two CDs should be listened to in symbiosis and represent the natural continuation of each other: soft and sparkling the first, it makes feet and neurons dance simultaneously. Nocturnal and narcotic the second, to be listened to strictly in a horizontal position...

Overall a well-made work that breathes new life into a genre (downtempo, lounge, or chill-out if you prefer) that indeed needed original ideas.