KRT PRODUCTION — A STORY THAT BEGAN IN 1979
KRT Production is not a name invented after the event. Its three letters go back to the very beginning of the adventure, in 1979–1980, and to a project imagined by two friends: one day, they would create their own production company.
It all began in December 1979.
Two friends simply decided to make music together.
No label. No studio. No career plan. Just a desire to create, experiment and find out how far a few machines, a great deal of enthusiasm and a healthy dose of imagination might take them.
The adventure began, among other things, around a Roland synthesiser. Very quickly, their first ideas became tracks and, by January 1980, the project had truly taken shape.
It needed a name.
They chose The Knights of the Round Table.
They were young. The name was ambitious, perhaps even a little pompous — they realised that themselves — but they liked its three initials:
KRT.
And those three letters would stay.
FROM KRT TO NUR
The music evolved. Influences changed. Machines took on an increasingly important role, and the musical identity taking shape soon no longer really fitted The Knights of the Round Table.
So the group changed its name.
It became NUR — New Urban Rhythm.
Once again, the choice was deliberate. There were the initials of New Urban Rhythm, but also the pleasure of playing with languages, sounds and meanings: nur, “now” in German; and, in its sound, nūr — also written Noor —, “light” in Arabic and also a given name.
A short, modern name, open to more than one interpretation.
KRT, however, did not disappear.
Because those three letters had already found another purpose.
ONE DAY, WE WILL HAVE OUR OWN COMPANY
Behind the music, there was already an idea.
One day, the two friends hoped to create a home of their own, a production company, perhaps their own label.
And they already had a name for it.
KRT.
The group could become NUR. The music could evolve. The instruments and technologies could change.
But KRT remained.
For years, that idea accompanied their musical adventure. Tracks were composed, recorded and kept. New projects appeared. Some came to an end; others returned in another form.
Time passed.
And one of the two friends, Alain Vandercam, died.
But the idea they had imagined together lived on.
KRT PRODUCTION
Decades after those beginnings, KRT Production really exists.
The three letters are still the same.
They were not chosen to build a brand around a recent activity. They were there long before the logo, the website, streaming platforms or social media.
They came from two young musicians who, at the turn of the 1980s, had simply decided to make music together — and who already imagined that one day they might have their own production company.
Today, older productions can find a new life under that name. NUR is naturally part of it. New productions join them through Funkle Ace, BBAM, Madame Mystère and the projects that will continue to shape KRT.
But KRT Production does not look only towards its own catalogue.
With Studio Lambermont, the idea developed in another direction: going to the musicians, right into their rehearsal room, recording where their music already lives, then supporting the project beyond the recording itself.
Multitrack recording, premix, mixing, mastering, visual identity, covers, images, digital distribution, support: the equipment has changed since 1980, and so have the possibilities.
The fundamental idea, far less so.
Make music. Keep it alive. And help the people who create it take it further.
A STORY THAT CONTINUES
KRT Production therefore has a contemporary date, contemporary tools and new projects.
But its roots go back much further.
They reach back to December 1979, to a friendship, a few machines, two young people eager to create and three letters they had decided never truly to abandon.
K. R. T.
The Knights of the Round Table belongs to the past.
The three letters, though, continued their journey.
More than forty-five years after they first appeared, they are still here.
KRT Production.
And this time, it is no longer a project for some future day.
It has become a reality.