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Consisting of Oscar de Jong, Wim Plug and Mark Kneppers, Kraak & Smaak’s impressive performance and studio career have seen the trio consistently create refreshing records and outstanding DJ and live moments during extensive global touring across Europe, in the USA, South America, Asia, China and Mexico. Establishing themselves with a distinctively warm and uplifting sound across genres as disco, funk, electronic, indie, deep house, soul and even pop, Dutch crew Kraak & Smaak’s vibrancy was first introduced to the world via their debut album, ‘Boogie Angst’. With the buzz it created their performances in The Netherlands quickly lead to invitations to play at Europe’s biggest festivals as well as crossing over to the U.S, highlighted by dates at SXSW, Coachella, and Miami’s WMC. The second album, ‘Plastic People’ dropped in 2008, and its hit single ‘Squeeze Me’ helped secure an international audience, gain the band significant media attention as a “Must see live act” and subsequently saw the trio take the stage at Glastonbury, Lowlands in the Netherlands, and Europe’s biggest festival, Sziget. During a five-week live tour across the USA, Kraak & Smaak performed at Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on ABC television as well as a month-long Australia tour and stepping on remix duties for Jamiroquai. In the following years, the upward trend of Kraak & Smaak continued with the release of the albums ‘Electric Hustle’ (2011), ‘Chrome Waves’ (2013), ‘Juicy Fruit’ (2016) and ‘Pleasure Centre’ (2019), featuring artists such as Parcels, Romanthony, funk legend Lee Fields and Mayer Hawthorne. Within this period, the trio also established themselves as a major live act with further career highlight shows such as Detroit Movement, Glastonbury and Serbia’s Exit Festival. Last year, 2023, marked their 20th Anniversary as a producer trio, live band and as DJs, and was celebrated with the release of the ‘Twenty’ compilation album and several special shows across The Netherlands and in Europe. The current 6-piece live band showcases the best K&S has to offer, with a dynamic show that touches on every aspect of their music, from disco to house, and from soul and funk to indie electronica, with a banging rock-n-roll attitude to top it all off. Now they are working on new original singles and towards their 7th artist album.
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104 N. Ave 56, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90042
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