Hi,
here's a Carl Craig interview from the latest DJ magazine (30th March -
12 Apr 1995). May contain some politically incorrect (mainly sexist)
parts for some of you, which don't represent my own opinions and blah
blah, and is of course reprinted here without permission :)
But let's cut the crap now, and listen to the man.
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CRUISING WITH CARL
by Andy Crysell
Techno bod Carl Craig thinks Berry Gordy of Motown fame has got it right
when it comes to running a label. Craig says that "techno labels could
learn something from that guy." Eh?
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Techno - or TECHNO! TECHNO! TECHNO! as its detractors would have it -
continues to battle with its own conscience. Can its intensely positive
traits hold its boorish, artless tendencies at bay? And for that matter,
which are which? Ask Moby, for instance, and he'll tell you that 'pure'
techno is too regressive, too frozen in tradition and intrinsically frigid
to prosper for much longer. Ask Carl Craig, on the other hand, and it's
obvious he can hardly bare to consider the popularity of rave, gabba and
hardcore. In fact it seems as if Detroit's most happening chap of the
moment would rather balk the techno term altogether.
"To say someone is techno gives the impression that when techno's gone
they'll be gone as well," he explains on a freezing cold night in London