Greg Earle wrote:
quoted 3 lines Anyway, Carl Craig is the motherfuckin' bomb, better than 99% of the stuff>Anyway, Carl Craig is the motherfuckin' bomb, better than 99% of the stuff
>discussed on this list, and of all the live/"live" Techno acts I've seen in
>the last 6 years only RDJ was in the same league as Carl. 'Nuff said.
Why? say something about the music. why is carl craig's music any
better? personally i think both Carl Craig & RDJ (particularly
his venture into d&b) are hyped to mythic proportions & without
much discussion of what it is about the music that makes it better
than other techno.
I did listen to Psyche & thought one track was excellent, but the rest i
found monotonous & dated. I expect I will be saying the same thing
about "RDJ" in 10 years (whereas I expect to be still listening
to Ambient Works II in 10 years). Carl's remixes of "God" were
one of the few remixes he did that I thought were good. Most
of his remixes are rather monotonous (S'Express, Tek 9) &
didn't improve any over the original, whereas i've found many
of RDJ's reworkings intriguing (Gavin Bryars, Curve, Jesus
Jones, Gentle People) & a few to be crap.
Personally I find much more 70s funk & disco (Giorgio Moroder, Bohannon,
Space, Gino Soccio), 80s synth pop & electro (Kraftwerk, "Set it Off," DXT,
Yello) & late 80s/early 90s (Inner City/Reese Project, 2
Puerto Ricans & a Blackman, Jomanda...) house to be more compelling than
any of the late 80s Detroit Techno (or the early 90s UK/Belgian techno
for that matter)........I've always considered (i.e. Derrick May & Carl
Craig) the beats to be monotonous & the synths to not hold up to the test
of time. They don't compel me to go out and dance & they aren't
interesting enough to listen to while nesting at home......
Can anyone say anything about the music that makes it so great?