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After school everybody went its way. Rupert decided to work in the experimental music scene, while Richard teamed up with Peter Kruder to form the producer/dj duo Kruder+Dorfmeister. 1993 the G-stone label was launched. K&D became trademark, their K&D remix sessions are legendary. In 1994, Richard and Rupert met again to do a new thing called Tosca. Initially a fun-project, they released their first 12", called Chocolate elvis (G-stone 12 002), which combined classical samples with NYC street-blues samples. The track was licensed to a whole range of compilations and still can be heard on dancefloors worldwide. Their second stroke called Fuck dub (G-stone 12 003) used heavy basslines and freaked-out spoken word clips. 1997 saw the release Opera (G-stone CD 002), their first album, which featured old + new tracks and was described as soulful and analogue soundscape. Some saw it as a smooth fusion of ambient funk + delicate dub. The mixmag wrote: It's the blues, and the thick sultry bass, that make this as sexy and melancholy as cigarette smoke after a one-night stand in a strange city. The new tracks were featured on Buona Sarah (G-stone 12 005) The next step was to bring in mutual friends from all over Europe to work on a remix-series of Fuck dub. It became a very exciting project and resulted in a colourful mixture of versions. Artists + labels involved in this project were: Fila Brazillia, Baby Mammoth (pork), Fauna Flash, Beanfield (compost), Daniel Haaksman, Shantel (essay), Morpheus/Beanfield (SSR), Gambusa (studio K7), Uptight productions (uptight), pulsinger + tunakan (cheap) All these reworkings were featured on Fuck dub the remix album (G-stone CD 003). The world of tosca is always connected to the city Vienna, sounds seen through a rain-drenched cab windscreen, a low world full of bluesy gentleness.
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