Hey everyone! Some of you have probably noticed a switch in our logo. This is just a little explaination as to why....
Art and design will always go hand in hand with music. The beauty of electronic music and "techno" is its natural ability to evolve with time. This inherent progression is what keeps things fresh.
Humans have a tendency to create categories and force names on things. It is our way of creating order from disorder. Followers of electronic music can clearly see this as sub genre after sub genre is born. With this false sense of order comes the false belief that you can properly describe all the elements of good music by a single phrase or "name". In the end...GOOD MUSIC IS GOOD MUSIC....whether it be "house", "techno" or etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
This is the main reason we are moving away from the "house" in our old name KG House Miami. With our orgins as a podcast first then recording label it was orginally a way for fans of electronic music to find us on the internet. As our new record label grows...We would like to add our small perspective and contribution to the music scene we all love so dearly without placing names or boundaries :)
The coffee maker in our new logo....lol...well...thats a piece of Kraffman and Garfunk...a piece of our hometown.... and hopefully a piece of you
Sincerely
Eric Kraffman
P.S.
Brewing coffee with a Moka Express
Water is poured in the boiler (marked A in the diagram) and the funnel-shaped metal filter (B) is inserted. Finely ground coffee is added to the filter as shown below. The upper part (which has a second metal filter at the bottom) is tightly screwed on the base. By placing the pot on a heat source, the water is brought close to boiling point creating steam in the boiler. A gasket ensures a tightly closed unit and allows for pressure to safely build up in the lower section, where a safety valve provides a necessary release in case this pressure would get too high (with clean filters, that should not happen).
The steam eventually reaches a high enough pressure to gradually force the surrounding boiling water up the funnel through the coffee powder and into the upper chamber (C), where the coffee is collected. When the lower chamber is almost empty, steam bubbles mix with the upstreaming water, producing a characteristic gurgling noise.
As with percolators, the pot should not be left on the stove so long that the coffee boils. Ideally, with a little practice, it should be removed from the heat before it actually starts gurgling--usually, when only about half of the top chamber has been filled.