Same as it ever was
Fabric was a bit of a let down on Saturday night. Apart from the fact that the venue has gone a bit Leicester Square - a it seems to be more of a tourist destination than anything else - I don't think it helped that Carl Craig wasn't on 'till 4am, and I wasn't feeling particularly enthused by the music up til then. I did hear a few quality tunes drifting out of the Gigolo room - such as Digitalisms 'Zdarlight' (which you've heard here), and... hmmm... (sorry, memory failure)... but on the whole until Carl Craig hit the decks it was loads of tracky tech-house which does nothing for me except wipe a collective smile from the dancefloor.
And I didn't feel CC was in top form either... certainly compared to other DJ sets of his i've heard. He didn't seem to be working the decks too much. He dropped plenty of old skool Detroit classics though, which always get me going. I think his last three tracks were Moodymann's incredible 'Shades of Jae', 'Knights of the Jaguar' and 'The Climax'. Which to be fair is about as good as it gets. I like to think he finished with 'The Climax' especially for me, as I asked him at the start of his set if he was going to play it!
And yes, I am such a fanboy that I took my camera with me.
DJs aren't the most exciting subjects for photographs are they.
This is one of the tracks I meant to post last week... a re-edit of Talking Heads' classic 'Once in a Lifetime' released last year on the Moxie label. It's not the best thing CC has ever produced, but it's pretty hard to get hold of so I thought it might be a good thing to post up here.
He basically loops & stretches the intro out to about 4 minutes and drops a few hoover noises in.
C2 C4 - SPECIMEN 2
Actually i've listened to this a lot over the last week and it's rather growing on me.
And finally here's a true Carl Craig classic for you. Back in the early 90's he released three 12"s as '69', all of which are absolutely essential listening (and partially compiled on the 'Sound of Music' CD). This version of 'My Machines' is off the last of these records - 'Lite Music' - however it was originally on the first and best of the series, '4 Jazz Funk Classics'.
The newer version basically adds a strange analog intro to the original, but then you're in familiar territory. Beginning with some percussive latino drumming, married with a synth line that sounds like it's trying to escape the containment of the machines, the real genius is the two minute disco break you get in the middle of the track, before bringing the whole lot back together again.Marvellous.
69 - MY MACHINES
And I didn't feel CC was in top form either... certainly compared to other DJ sets of his i've heard. He didn't seem to be working the decks too much. He dropped plenty of old skool Detroit classics though, which always get me going. I think his last three tracks were Moodymann's incredible 'Shades of Jae', 'Knights of the Jaguar' and 'The Climax'. Which to be fair is about as good as it gets. I like to think he finished with 'The Climax' especially for me, as I asked him at the start of his set if he was going to play it!
And yes, I am such a fanboy that I took my camera with me.
DJs aren't the most exciting subjects for photographs are they.
This is one of the tracks I meant to post last week... a re-edit of Talking Heads' classic 'Once in a Lifetime' released last year on the Moxie label. It's not the best thing CC has ever produced, but it's pretty hard to get hold of so I thought it might be a good thing to post up here.
He basically loops & stretches the intro out to about 4 minutes and drops a few hoover noises in.
C2 C4 - SPECIMEN 2
Actually i've listened to this a lot over the last week and it's rather growing on me.
And finally here's a true Carl Craig classic for you. Back in the early 90's he released three 12"s as '69', all of which are absolutely essential listening (and partially compiled on the 'Sound of Music' CD). This version of 'My Machines' is off the last of these records - 'Lite Music' - however it was originally on the first and best of the series, '4 Jazz Funk Classics'.
The newer version basically adds a strange analog intro to the original, but then you're in familiar territory. Beginning with some percussive latino drumming, married with a synth line that sounds like it's trying to escape the containment of the machines, the real genius is the two minute disco break you get in the middle of the track, before bringing the whole lot back together again.Marvellous.
69 - MY MACHINES
posted by headphonesex @ 11:30 AM
