Carl Craig - The Detroit Wizard (1991 -1996)

Its hard to believe that two of these records are 18 years old. I was working in a record shop back in 1991 when Carl Craig's 4 Jazz Funk Classics was released, and it pretty much blew my mind, opening me up to a whole host of musical possibities. These records pretty much defy categorization. They rode in on the back of the Detroit techno invasion, but the sonic palette employed is coloured with a range of sounds and rhythms and textures that were unique in the dance music of the time. Carl Craig draws on a disparate range of influences that includes funk and soul and disco, cosmic italo, industrial, rock, jazz, modern experimental composition; the whole of musical history is probably in there somewhere, distilled down into a dizzying gritty mess of euphoric confusion. Perfect for Interplanetary Disco Dancing:


The tracks:

69 - 4 Jazz Funk Classics (Planet E 1991)

01 69 - Ladies & Gentlemen
02 69 - If Mojo was A.M.
03 69 - My Machines (pt 1)-Extraterrestrial Raggabeats (pt 2)-My Machines (reprise)
04 69 - Frequency Finale

69 - Lite Music (R&S 1994)

05 69 - My Machines
06 69 - Microlovr
07 69 - Jam the Box
08 69 - Desire

Innerzone Orchestra/Shop - Untitled EP (Planet E 1992)

09 Innerzone Orchestra - Bug in the Bassbin
10 Shop - Nitwit
11 Shop - Surreal

FRS - Harder (Global Cuts 1994)

12 FRS - Harder
13 FRS - Love is the Message
14 FRS - Theme from FRS

Carl Craig presents Paperclip People - The Floor (Open 1996)

15 Paperclip People - The Floor
16 Paperclip People - Reach
17 Paperclip People - Steam

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