Carl Craig sonic art space

luka

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Yeah Yeah I just only read the blog years ago & it seems like that geezer actually is everybody at dissensus bffs blimey

What about the Art?
Did Carl Craig make a successful crossover?
of course not. hes not even good at music.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Yep, a few times. One occasion he played mostly Planet E releases, bit of a trudge because there were no surprises.

2nd was distilled madness, shorter mixes, much wider scope of music and nothing seemed forced.

3rd think the drugs were too much, complete blur, kept asking a friend the time which I can’t recall but it’s been an in-joke among mates ever since whenever time/watches/clocks come up.
 

sus

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I was going to get tickets to see the opening of this at Dia but then corona. Jace has been contributing to artforum for awhile now, well before spendy's BK Cultural Mafia moved to town. met him a couple of times, I'm of two minds: enjoy some of his music and writing but can be a bit snooty.
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luka

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had you heard of carl craig before Gus? theres no shame in not having heard of him. you can admit it
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
detroit is a very strange place. heavily racially segregated, but amongst direct racial more than directly class lines. Quite foreign to us living in the UK.

It's interesting to think about the capital W White Supremacist nature of America and how the detroit techno producers are impacted by it as a result. Even ascending to the middle class labour aristocracy, or into wealth still prevents a heavy degree of racial mixing, despite, or in spite of, their europhile tendancies. The UK middle classes are informally segregated of course but A) nowhere near even to the same degree - as Luke says we're all squashed together on this tiny tottering island, B) the black middle class in the UK generally speaking is even smaller than the US black middle class. Black people are much more proletarianised over here, it's why the university cultural appropriation/land back consciousness has never really taken off here, despite students trying to make that a reality - it's an american importation good for chewing your lecturers ear off about but it didn't even develop organically from the UK universities at all.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Fwiw, many of the Detroit originators were from middle class backgrounds though. Decent households, good schools etc. Not that it really matters

yeah their parents were essentially foreman at plants, high up in unions, that kind of thing. what we call the labour aristocracy. Strictly speaking they were wage earners but not workers per se.
 

thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Fwiw, many of the Detroit originators were from middle class backgrounds though. Decent households, good schools etc. Not that it really matters

id say it matters in trying to understand why these rich stylish kids, who were so indebted to Europe are quite defensive of their sound in a way we aren't so much in the UK. The idea of seeing a 5000 rave with a black, white and asian mix would have been inconceivable to those lads. Even white people going to their high school dances was the exception more than the norm.
 

thirdform

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id say techno as such becomes more working class when it crosses over to Europe and is recontextualised.

All them mental east berlin bredder raves, the orbit in morley, eurobeat 2000, the massive things in Belgium and holland etc. It's funny cos you essentially have no UR without Belgium but also you have no Belgium without chicago house and detroit techno. There's more of a feedback loop than people would like to admit. Similarly Jeff Mills toughened up his sound when he moved to new york and played to them lot at Limelight into Lenny Dee/industrial strength etc.
 
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luka

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Carl Craig has got some nice bits but he's defined by really bad really drippy techno. there's no excuse for this type of behaviour
 
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