Carl Craigs recent music

Woebot

Woebot

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Completely gave up on CC after the "Elements of and Experiments with Tone" comp on Planet e in 1996. Not that it was a bad comp, it just felt like that whole axis was spent.

Since then my planet e intake has been restricted to that Recloose EP (with the cartoon of the mining DJ on the cover) and the Recloose LP (nice)

Yesterday I was doing some oblique strategy musical investigation and came home with the "just another day" EP. Its really really nice. Incredibly low-key, distinctly muted-jazz style grooves lead by super-fat basslines, a dread quote from Genesis on the records rear" And God Said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, i will destroy them with them with the earth". traces of the original neurotic behaviour beatless mix throughout but the production is (theres no way around it) overwhelmingly beautiful.

so is his "programmed" lp any good?

and for the record i'm quite taken with the idea of "jazz techno" this week. it actually translates as quite nasty bleak electronic music with opaque hooks which doesnt resort to myopic glitchery and is too left out of the party to be sraight dance music. has anyone else heard the nsi record on kompakt? thats the most interesting thing ive ever heard on that label. tagged on the wall as "sun ra-like microhouse" and thats not such a bad description.......
 
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Jim Daze

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Hi Matt, yeah that 'More Songs About Revolutionary Art.....' was the last Craig long player I bought. The only 'great' track on that being 'At-Les'. I loved that Basic Channel mix of the Climax that came out a while back. Re:Techno-Jazz, I know it's an obvious one but that live version of 'Hi-Tech Jazz' by UR is something I listen to know and then, had a few hands in the air moments to that one, but not lately.
Haven't heard that Kompakt tune you refer to but am loving the work of Justus Kohnke, it's like techno you can pad around the house to :)
 
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Blackdown

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The Detroit Experiement and the Innerzone Orchestra LPs both have their moments, but are pretty varied, whereas early CC is more sonically focused. "Jazz Techno" eh, how 1996! :)
 
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hint

party record with a siren
yeah - it's all about his remixes recently:

beanfield - tides
directions - busted trees
cesaria evora - angola

and his disco re-edit EPs on moxie
 
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redcrescent

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His 're-edit' of The Congos' 'Congoman' was totally, utterly pointless, tho'. Why anyone would want to retouch such a perfect piece of music is beyond me - surely in his heart he must know he can't add anything to the original?
On a similar tip, didn't Gary Lucas give up trying to remix Tubbys' 'Dub fi gwaan' after a week because he realized it was like trying to 'rearrange the Sistine Chapel' or something?
(I must say I quite like his analogy because 'Dub fi gwaan' is one of the greatest dubs ever, ever, ever.)


WOEBOT said:
the Recloose LP (nice)
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Seconded.
 
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jed_

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His Throbbing Gristle remixes were great, proper old school mixes (by which i mean beefed up and extended and not much more - i approve) and the remix of cesaria evora's "angola" is truly wonderful. The Tres Demented EP is great, especially "Demented Drums" and there IS some pretty great stuff on "programmed", especially the jazz version of "At Les", Basic Math" and "Programmed" - i even love the cover of the Stylistics' "People Make the World go round".

I wasn't too keen on "Cardiology" fwiw.
 
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notoriousJ.I.M

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hint said:
yeah - it's all about his remixes recently:

beanfield - tides
directions - busted trees
cesaria evora - angola

and his disco re-edit EPs on moxie
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Agreed, but also worth a mention is Aardvark - Cult Copy Part 2 (Carl Craig Edit) and A Wonderful Life (Epic Mix) which both have been out in the last few years.
 
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mms

sometimes
tres demented/demented drums was good as well as the throbbing gristle remix, haven't bought the new un'.i trust him oddly, and i never used to cos he just lifed so much, but he is good, he hasn't settled down into trite boring flat house like a few em.
 
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robin

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for some reason i've never heard much by carl craig,but i really liked his francois de roubaix remix
 
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Andy K

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None of his recent remixes, save the one of "Hot on the Heels of Love," have done much for me. Maybe it's because I've expected primal batshit insanity since the Tres Demented 12". (Haven't heard the new one. Hoping to recitfy that soon.)

I do love Programmed. Not so much the case with the tame Detroit Experiment record, a couple tracks excepted (Midnight at the 20 Grand).

Still play the hell out of his two-disc mix released on React a couple years back.

Post-'96 Planet E search: Moodymann's Silent Introduction comp (including one of my favorite blue-faced tracky things KDJ has done), Todd Sines 12" (calling all Luomo Vocalcity freaks), bits of the 2000 Black comp (Titonton in particular), Recloose's Cardiology, parts of the Ibex 12s, Newworldaquarium 12" licensed from Delsin, Niko Marks 12".

Woebot, are you talking about the NSI on Cadenza, with the 10+ minute A-side? It's excellent, though I might be overly excited by anything close to a change-up within that sphere of labels.

Shot in the dark: Anyone heard the old-new Connection Machine album?
 
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DigitalDjigit

Honky Tonk Woman
Noone mentioned Designer Music on Planet E. I guess it's not that spectacular but I am fond of it. It's kind of a remix of Robotnick's Problemmez D'Amour but it only really uses the "aoooaaah" vocal. It's really hypnotic, you gotta listen to it the whole way through, crazy dynamics there.
 
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Woebot

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redcrescent said:
His 're-edit' of The Congos' 'Congoman' was totally, utterly pointless, tho'
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wasnt it completely!!!!

the pepe braddock mix of 'angola' was better imho.
 
Woebot

Woebot

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Andy K said:
Woebot, are you talking about the NSI on Cadenza, with the 10+ minute A-side? It's excellent, though I might be overly excited by anything close to a change-up within that sphere of labels.
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(inspects record closely) yeah its on cadenza andy. looks like kompakt only did the distribution.

are you saying not much is happening on these labels at the moment? i wouldnt be too surprised, but this does sound pretty unusual/improbable. its not my territory at all, but feeling a bit bi-partisan at the moment.

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jazz techno
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yeah, lol, know what you mean. "jupiter jazz" and all that gubbins. thought it was pretty iffy back in the day, frinstance never really swallowed kirk ds manifesto. that old adage about there being too much else going on.... actually these two tunes i'm listening too dont bear much that much resemblance to "classical jazz techno" (again, lol) theyre just a bit weird, a bit bleak and nasty with mash-up tunings. in fairness this may be cos jazz proper has been ingested a bit more comprehensively, not like a saxaphone stuck on top of a bog standard techno production. not a sax in sight......
 
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Andy K

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WOEBOT said:
are you saying not much is happening on these labels at the moment? i wouldnt be too surprised, but this does sound pretty unusual/improbable. its not my territory at all, but feeling a bit bi-partisan at the moment.
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No, your assumption is right. Kompakt and Kompakt-distributed labels can bat around most of their ideas right now without getting redundant. That comment made me look like too much of a pessimist, when it's more that I'm always up for a good shake-up.

The new Craig 12" is good! Two tracks strike me as new takes on Neurotic Behavior and the first track off Landcruising, scrubbed and stripped down.
 
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STN

sou'wester
Does anyone know anything about that tribute to sun ra that carl craig was involved in?
 
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