History
Textor's mother, Lena Möllerström, was a Swedish jazz singer, while his father, Günther von Holtum, was a classically trained drummer, so music was a constant element of daily life in the von Holtum household, leading to a jazz influence which can be heard in many Kinderzimmer Productions tracks.
The band's self-titled debut album had to be withdrawn from the market fairly soon after its release. The song "Back" contained an uncleared sample from the Stranglers' recording "Golden Brown". The Stranglers had already agreed to the sample being used, but their record company invoked its exclusive rights to it regardless, and the original album can no longer be distributed. It was re-released in 1998 under the name Die Erste, with the uncleared sample in "Back" replaced by a distinctively off-key piano melody played by Textor.
After the first album was withdrawn, Kinderzimmer Productions proceeded more cautiously with the second. In the track "Intro", a sample of Kate Bush is announced with the words An dieser Stelle stand ein Sample von Kate Bush ("At this point there was a sample of Kate Bush"). The album itself contains many jazzy samples strongly evocative of the 1930s to '60s.
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