Published
Fri, Sep 1, 2006, 03:30
- Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier celebrate the Detroit and European roots of the genre on double CD ‘The Kings of Techno’...
Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier team up on a double CD celebrating the Detroit and European roots of the genre. ‘Kings of Techno’ will be released early October.
Frenchman Laurent Garnier offers up a Detroit-centric mix that starts up outside of the techno tradition with tracks selected from Motor City punk (The Stooges), Motown soul (Aretha Franklin, The Temptations) and funk (Funkadelic). Garnier’s mix ends on a wealth of classic and rare techno cuts from the city including vinyl by BFC, Arpanet, Jeff Mills and Carl Craig himself.
Detroit native Carl Craig reaches across the Atlantic from the other direction, splicing together a history of European electronics that impacted on techno including cuts of Italo disco (Kano, Capricorn), synth-pop (Visage, Art of Noise) and electro (Yello, Alexander Robotnick).
‘The Kings of Techno’ is the sixth edition in record label Rapster’s ‘Kings of’ series. Previous editions have covered house, hip-hop, funk and jazz. The concept behind the series is to give DJs a free reign beyond the usual restraints imposed on them, and judging by the tracklists, both Garnier and Craig seem to be reveling in the idea.
‘The Kings of Techno’ features artwork from Rolling Stones photographer & bon viveur extraordinaire Michael Joseph.
Tracklist
The Detroit Perspective: Laurent Garnier
1 Yusef Lateef - The Plum Blossom
2 Dabrye - Game Over
3 Jay Dee - Beej-N-Dem Pt. 2
4 Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
5 Arpanet - NTT DoCoMo
6 BFC - Galaxy
7 Instinct - Just A Feeling
8 Carl Craig - No More Words
9 MK - Burning
10 Hamilton Bohannon - Me and the Gang
11 D.I.E. (Detroit In Effect) - Get Up
12 Adult - Don't Talk (Redux)
13 The Stooges - No Fun
14 Jeff Mills - Utopia
15 Funkadelic - Bettino's Bounce
16 Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
17 Underground Resistance - Amazon (Live)
The European Perspective: Carl Craig
1 Intro
2 Art Of Noise - Beat Box
3 Capricorn - I Need Love (Instrumental)
4 Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
5 Martin Circus – Disco Circus
6 Kano - It's A War
7 Yellow Magic Orchestra – Computer Games
8 Yello - No More Words
9 Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Être Pas
10 Alexander Robotnick - Dance Boy Dance
11 Choice - Acid Eiffel
12 The Black Dog - Virtual
13 The Flying Lizards - Flesh And Steel
14 Balil - Nort Route
15 Visage - Frequency 7
16 Severed Heads - The Ant Can See Legs
‘The Kings of Techno’ mixed by Laurent Garnier and Carl Craig will be released on Rapster/K7! on October 3rd, 2006.