Camo and Krooked
Camo & Krooked are a Drum & Bass duo from Vienna, Austria consisting of Reinhard Rietsch (aka Camo, Born November 12, 1983 in Salzburg) and Markus Wagner (aka Krooked, Born July 31, 1989 in Lilienfeld)
Camo and Krooked "All falls down"
| Year | Single / EP | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Play It / Hidden Edge / Drop It! | Basswerk |
| Don't Push Me / No More Running | Dirty Habit | |
| The Access / Close Ya Eyes | Finn People Productions | |
| Vision / Flash To Flash | Mainframe Recordings | |
| 2009 | Blackmail / No Nerds Needed | Bezerk |
| Blow | Have-A-Break Recordings | |
| Get Funky / The Fear | Viper Recordings | |
| Fatman / Toxic | Mainframe Recordings | |
| Nano / The Unseen | Sudden Def Recordings | |
| Oh My Dear! / Vampires | Mainframe Recrodings | |
| Global Warming / No Soul | Uprising Records | |
| 2010 | Edge Of Mind EP | Beta Recordings |
| The Big Rush / Brave New World | Nasca | |
| Climax / Reincarnation | Hospital Records | |
| History Of The Future / Verve | AudioPorn Records | |
| Can't Get Enough / Without You | Breakbeat Kaos | |
| 2011 | Pulse Of Time EP | Viper Recordings |
| All Fall Down / Breezeblock | Hospital Records | |
| Change Me | Hospital Records | |
| Make The Call / In The Future | Hospital Records |
Both Rietsch and Wagner have been producing music since 2002. They met at one of Rietsch's gigs and collaborated to form Camo & Krooked in 2007. Their first release was in 2008 with Play It / Hidden Edge / Drop It!.
Due to Camo & Krooked success with Above & Beyond released in February 2010, they won Best Newcomer DJ's at the 2010 Drum & Bass: Arena Awards, and put out two mixes for BBC Radio 1‘s Annie Nightingale, Fabio & Grooverider. Grooverider later quoted that Camo & Krooked are “one of the biggest talents in Drum & Bass”. Both of these mixes bring to the table Camo & Krooked‘s usual varying sub-genres of Drum & Bass.
Camo & Krooked were signed by Hospital Records on the December 4th 2010 to join the likes of Netsky, High Contrast and Danny Byrd and are due to release a second album, later in 2011 which will be their first long play album on Hospital Records.
On 3 June 2011, Camo & Krooked released their first single from their upcoming album, "All Fall Down / Breezeblock" ventured into new genres for them into the realms of Dubstep, "All Fall Down" reached number 97 on the UK Singles Chart and number 14 on the UK Dance Chart.
During 2011, due to the success and the release of "All Fall Down" and there growing Discography of songs, they played live at Festivals throughout Europe. Some of these gigs were alongside big names of the genre like Chase & Status & Sub Focus, They performed at theRelentless's Nass festival and also at the Global Gathering festival, both in July 2011. In addition, they also headlined the Strongbow stage at the V Festival in August 2011.
The second single of Camo & Krooked's second album, "Make The Call" was released on 12 September 2011 with "In The Future" as the second track. "Make The Call" is due to be their last released single prior to the album's release in the latter months of 2011, which in August 2011 was revealed to be named "Cross The Line" yet a release date has not been announced. The Album will be available on 12″ Vinyl, CD and by Digital Download, the album will be available for pre-order on iTunes soon.
Having signed exclusively to Hospital Records earlier this year, Austrian duo Camo + Krooked step up with the first single in the build up to their debut long player, and in doing so secure their status as one of the hottest things in D+B / dubstep right now.
Renowned for their turbo charged DJ sets, high octane slammers and dense, energetic production style, Camo + Krooked a.k.a Reinhard Reitsch and Markus Wagner are undeniably a force to be reckoned with
on the dancefloor.
Dubstep reigns supreme on A-side All Fall Down - a searing 140bpm banger with a trancey intro, bellowing synths and glossy vocal input by John B collaborator Shaz Sparks. An anthem in the making, All Fall Down brings together the classic Hospital hands-in-the-air factor with huge hooks, crushing snares and murky bassline pressure to
enormous effect.
Encapsulating the Camo + Krooked sound in a nutshell, flipside Breezeblock brings the tempo back up to 175bpm with a concrete slab of electro-breakbeat madness full of switches, accelerating synths, textured SFX and white noise mayhem aimed squarely at the dancefloor.
Adding to the mounting anticipation surrounding their album release in the autumn, these are two tunes that cannot be missed!
After blasting onto the Hospital map with their first single – "All Fall Down / Breezeblock" – Camo & Krooked are back with another couple of brilliant balls-out belters in the run up to the release of their album – “Cross The Line" – later this autumn.
This double A-side single shows the breadth and brilliance of Camo & Krooked’s sound as well as showcasing two of the UK’s hottest vocal talents.
Camo & Krooked's New album Cross the Line released soon.
Above and beyond , a new LP by Camo and Krooked recently released onMainframe recordings (February 2010) contains fabulous fast beats and sophisticated breakz. I was constantly listening the album yesterday and surprisingly gave me what I needed it to have a good mood all day. The album contains 14 fresh tracks which I rather believe you must listen carefully.
I was surfing on the internet , searching for other immpressions and opinions , especially reading forums etc.. and I found out that the people are “divided” in two different groups : those people who love the album already and the people who were not really immpressed. In any case it would be nice if you have a carefull “audition” . You can find a previous article of this blog concerning Camo and Krooked here. You can buy this album as well as listen a preview frombreakbeat.co.uk
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