Their set-up, combining the club sound of their releases with live musicians and vocalists, turned out to be a musical phenomenon on the Dutch circuit, leading to invitations to play at Europe’s festivals and renowned USA hotspots like SXSW, Coachella, Miami's WMC and New York's CMJ.
The second album 'Plastic People' dropped in 2008, and off that album, the hit single 'Squeeze Me', made for an even more rapid international rise of K&S. The acclaimed UK dance magazine IDJ labelled K&S as a “Must see live act”, together with big guns as the Chemical Brothers, Moby and The Prodigy. The band subsequently performed at the 'holy grail of festivals' Glastonbury in the UK, Lowlands in the Netherlands and again Europe's biggest festival, Sziget. During a five-week live tour across the USA they performed at Jimmy Kimmel's late night show on ABC television and further explicit support came from US Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who describes K&S as ‘Amy Winehouse meets Moby’. Even Kanye West declared himself a fan! And to top things off, the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA) is won, together with none other than Adele.
In the following years, the upward trend of K&S is continued and solidified with the albums 'Electric Hustle' (2011) and 'Chrome Waves' (2013). A grueling schedule of international touring includes career highlight shows at Detroit Movement, Sziget, Glastonbury and Exit, and key single releases in this period include “Let’s Go Back” which features a superb vocal from the sadly departed Romanthony, The Future Is Yours” (which saw the band hook up a second time with Ben Westbeech who at the time was hitting the top of the charts under his Breach guise), and the soulful “How We Gonna Stop The Time” - an instant club hit that went on to be licensed for release on Axtone Records. New remix work comes through for Moby, Aretha Franklin, Chromatics, and Royksopp, and 2015 sees a one-off single release on Spinnin’ Records.
The 5th album, Juicy Fruit, released in 2016, has seen them returning to the more organic sound of their debut record. As usual it contains some heavyweight collaborations, including Americans Mayer Hawthorne and Eric Biddines, and Australians Parcels and Cleopold to name just a few. In the US, initial support comes from KCRW (Top Tune #1 for ‘Hands of Time’) and a #2 position in the College radio CMJ / RPM charts for I’ Don’t Know Why’ . The latter track, also also gets picked up by the Jimmy Kimmel show band, and the track ’Stumble’ reaches a #1 position in Hype Machine’s Most Popular list.
A string of new international live and dj dates followed, with performances in countries in West- and Eastern-Europe, the Americas and Asia, topping it all off with an extensive tour in the USA and again a live show on 2017’s Glastonbury.
Coinciding with their busy touring schedule Kraak & Smaak have also just released their album “Juicy Fruit Remixed”, with input from Eli Escobar, Fouk, Purple Disco Machine, Moods and Thatmanmonkz among others, to give a new fresh outlook on the tracks by producers they admire.
Moreover, they have found some time to work on new material themselves as well: new singles ‘Hendo’ and 'Scorched' have recently been released on the Exploited and Spinnin' Deep labels, and more is coming later this year for labels such as Future Disco.
One of These Days
Kraak & Smaak Lyrics
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You're gonna look for me and I'll be gone
One of these days and it won't be long
You're gonna look for me and I'll be gone
One of these days and it won't be long
You're gonna look for me and I'll be gone
One of these days and it won't be long
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
I'll be gone
One of these days and it won't be long
You're gonna look for me when I'm gone
When I'm gone
Said I'm gone
One of these days
One of these days
One of these days
One of these days
One of these days and it won't be long
You're gonna look for me when I'll be gone
When I'm gone
Said when I'm gone
When I'm gone
When I'm gone
Said when I'm gone
Gonna look for me
and I'll be gone is a repetitive phrase in Kraak & Smaak's song One of These Days. The lyrics are quite straightforward - the singer is telling someone that soon enough, they will be gone, and the person will look for them but won't find them. It is a warning to someone who is not taking the singer seriously, and they are trying to tell them that they should start appreciating them while they still can because they will leave eventually.
The song's tone is somber, and the lyrics are reflective, which gives them a sense of finality. The repetition of the phrase "one of these days" emphasizes the inevitability of what the singer is saying. There is a sense of not wanting to leave, but it is evident that the decision has already been made, and the singer is at peace with it.
Overall, Kraak & Smaak's song One of These Days is a warning to someone that they will leave soon, and the person should start valuing them while they are still around. The lyrics are reflective, and the tone is sad, which gives the song a sense of finality.
Line by Line Meaning
One of these days and it won't be long
Someday soon, sooner than you think
You're gonna look for me and I'll be gone
You'll search for me but I'll be gone
One of these days and it won't be long
Again, a reminder that it is imminent
You're gonna look for me and I'll be gone
The same message is repeated for emphasis
I'll be gone
I'll no longer be here
I'll be gone
Same as above
I'll be gone
Same as above
I'll be gone
Same as above
One of these days and it won't be long
Just another reminder of the impending event
You're gonna look for me when I'm gone
When I've left, you'll try to find me
When I'm gone
When I'm no longer here
Said I'm gone
I've left and there's no going back
One of these days
Once again, re-iterating that it's going to happen soon
One of these days
Same as above
One of these days
Same as above
One of these days
Same as above
One of these days and it won't be long
The final reminder before the end
You're gonna look for me when I'll be gone
You'll search for me, but I won't be around
When I'm gone
Same as above
Said when I'm gone
I've left and there's no coming back
When I'm gone
Same as above
When I'm gone
Same as above
Said when I'm gone
Repeating the message that I'm no longer here
Gonna look for me
You'll try to find me
Contributed by Ryan N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.