Carl Craig — DJ-Kicks: Carl Craig (DJ Mix)

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Carl Craig was unstoppable in 1996. His debut album, <i>Landcruising</i>, had come out the year before, setting a new bar for Detroit techno’s experimental possibilities; he would release the even more ambitious <i>More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art</i> in 1997. Smack in between those two landmark albums came his <i>DJ-Kicks</i> mix—the second in the series, after C.J. Bolland’s instalment in late 1995. “I could only think of a compilation in the way of what I'd been influenced by, so I was slashing Derrick May on the floor with a tape machine, a turntable and a razor blade, and cutting tape and doing this mix by hand,” Craig tells Apple Music. “My <i>DJ-Kicks</i> was more about what the technical possibilities were. It was a true musical production. It really felt like a Carl Craig album in comparison to a Carl Craig mix.” If there’s an implicit theme here, it’s the way that Detroit techno’s influence was spreading across the globe in the mid-’90s, colouring all kinds of scenes in its high-tech image. In addition to Motor City stalwarts like Kosmic Messenger (Stacey Pullen) and Claude Young, Craig slots in a number of European artists—the UK’s Octagon Man and Ian Loveday, Vienna’s Auto Repeat and Belgium’s Random Generator—who all trafficked in a similarly steely yet supple style. It’s a club set through and through, with flashing hi-hats and churning snares serving as the through lines for Craig’s swirls of filtered chords. And the finale is the most ingenious sort of coda: Titled “DJ-Kicks (The Track)”, it’s Craig’s own nine-minute mash-up of elements of all the songs that have come before—proof that this remixer had some of the sharpest editing skills around.

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  1. The Theme (Carl Craig Remix) [Mixed] 7:29
  2. Teasing the Dragons Tail (Mixed) 3:47
  3. Crazy Dream (Reload Remix) [Mixed] 3:04
  4. Eye 2 Eye (Mixed) 4:05
  5. Jak to Basics (Mixed) 5:19
  6. Good Girls (Mixed) 4:29
  7. Changing Factors (Mixed) 3:53
  8. Changeling (Mixed) 2:29
  9. You Can't Stop (Mixed) 3:51
  10. Zonepaging (Mixed) 5:41
  11. Crossing Mars (Mixed) 5:26
  12. Switch Back (Mixed) 2:45
  13. Res*Lute (Mixed) 0:56
  14. Electroluv (Mixed) 4:12
  15. Folkloric Acid (Mixed) 5:31
  16. DJ-Kicks (The Track) [Mixed] 9:17