IDM Mailing Archive

On Mon, 22 May 1995 aran@MIT.EDU wrote:

quoted 5 lines So you're eager to get your sweaty claws on Craig's new album, eh?

> >So you're eager to get your sweaty claws on Craig's new album, eh? > > oh yes. if the magik of science fiction is just a sampler...i'm > ready for the prime time workout. BUT, what i was actually > referring to this party i heard about where *the man* spun up.

Heh heh. Well, I'll just forward the relevant section of Matt "Michigan Techno Millitia Member #606" MacQueen's party review... hope he doesn't mind. --- Then Claude Young. [Disclaimer: This *can't* be objective since he's my favorite DJ.] He started out with a Roob Hood "Rhythm of Vision" 12" on each deck, phasing/cutting the shit out of them, and this set the fucking straight-up TECHNO tone for his whole mindblowing set. This was the best I have ever seen him, hyped up as hell, too. He spun lots of minimal techno and Detroit/AXIS style stuff. People were cheering at his every move, fast as hell and spine-crushing raw mixins style, drop-ins, scratch-ins, phasing, getting sounds on and off and on again.... I could go on and on, I'm *still* glowing. Do you people in Wisconsin and Chicago hear this? **GET THIS MAN FOR YOUR PARTIES.** Ed mentioned that he played a record upside-down. Let me elaborate on this little trick: he put the record on a spool or something up above the platter spinning about 2 inches above. Then backed the weight off the tone-arm, flipped the cartridge over on the other end of the tone-arm, and screwed it back on. (so the needle was pointing "up") and then played that underside of the record. Thus, the turntable was spinning forward, but the record was playing backwards, and MIXED WITH IT! Too cool. He ended his set with Fannon Flowers beautiful new techno record on the Phuc-U label (sp?), YES! Carl Craig was next. This was a special treat, since he so rarely spins in the midwest lately. He paid homage to Claude by starting his set with one of his tracks from that "one complete revolution" Utensil record... and then took off from there, Maurizio stuff, that FIX track everyone loves on KMS records, and the new Green Velvet record on Relief (which is red hot, BTW -- hopefully it's popularity will take the place of Kenny Dope's THE BOMB sometime *soon*). Strong stuff, more hard-ish techno than what I expected him to play, considering his own records lately has been smoother. A top-notch set, his track selection is truly unique, (in the good way, of course). His sets are dripping with that certain STYLE... Another brilliant musician, Kirk D'Giorgio (sp?), was spotted chilling behind Carl during the set. -- -d.w.

quoted 4 lines So you're eager to get your sweaty claws on Craig's new album, eh?

>>So you're eager to get your sweaty claws on Craig's new album, eh? > >oh yes. if the magik of science fiction is just a sampler...i'm >ready for the prime time workout.

This was definitely Top of the bill at my place this weekend! toodle pip jeff