Carl Craig

In this official Native Instruments video, Carl Craig and Kelvin Sholar talk about their collaboration and how Maschine influenced their workflow.

Detroit electronic music festival Movement promoters Paxahau have announced that techno Music legend Carl Craig has been named Creative Director for Movement 2010.

“Movement is already a great festival and a successful brand,” says Craig, “it is an honor to be involved with Movement in this new capacity.”

Craig will be involved in various creative aspects of Movement including artist bookings and the festival’s brand image. He will also serve as an ambassador for the Movement festival as he travels the globe performing for throngs of electronic music enthusiasts.

“Detroit is such a wonderful music town,” Craig continued. “With Movement we have such a great opportunity to remind people from around the world and those that are right here in our own backyard that electronic music in Detroit is very powerful and that our annual festival is the best stage for showcasing the most talented artists of this musical genre.”

The annual Memorial Day Weekend festival has gone through several reincarnations since its beginning in 2000. Paxahau earned the right in 2006 to produce the festival.  Paxahau is credited with bringing financial stability to the festival, but some feel they’ve whitewashed the Detroit electronic music festival in the process.

!K7 has released a free album of music, with tracks by Hot Chip, Carl Craig, Quiet Village and more. 

It’s a free download, but registration is required at the site.

Here’s what’s on the sampler….. Read more…

Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald will launch the third volume in Deutsche Gramophone’s recomposed series this week, Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald.

Continuing the tradition of previous installments by Finish Saxophonist, Sound Artist and Contemporary Composer Jimi Tenor and Dub producer Matthias Arfmann, Craig and van Oswald were given access to original recordings from the prestigious vault of the label and asked to offer their personal interpretation of the material.

In this particular case, the blueprints for the recomposition process were recordings by Ravel’s Bolero and Rapsodie espagnole as well as Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

The music for “Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald” took shape over the course of a full year. During this time, the musicians met both in Detroit and Berlin, shaping loops as a basis for improvisations. Striving for a spontaneous sound, they then chose unedited cuts from these sessions to build the album. As a natural consequence, the resulting tracks are neither completely typical for the solo work of Carl Craig and Moritz can Oswald, nor are they obviously connected to the originals by Mussorgsky and Ravel.

Rather, the music finds its own distinct niche between contemporary club music and classical concert halls, even though it tends more towards the former than the latter.

Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald will be available as a regular CD and a limited Double LP.

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Les Siècles orchestra is teaming up with pioneering techno DJ Carl Craig on October 18th for a unique musical experience at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, France.

Versus is a unique event, bringing together an original mix of big names from a range of musical horizons, united by the desire to create and celebrate alternative sounds. The fruit of four years of passionate exchange, Versus offers audiences the chance to explore a variety of works and styles from a new perspective, inventing an entirely different way of listening to music.

The program will feature one of the founding works of the electro scene, “City Life” by Steve Reich, and a more recent piece, “Streets” by Bruno Mantovani, one of the leading lights of the “new gen” of French composers, completed by six works from Carl Craig.

Craig’s finely balanced and constantly changing techno sound was the first to be fused and fermented with other musical genres. As a sign of his musical maturity, and the realization of a personal dream, Craig will grasp the Versus nettle to combine his own style with an orchestral form and language.

His works will be arranged by Francesco Tristano. Thanks to the openness and depth of his style, this pianist has imposed his unique sound, which juggles classical and contemporary sounds for both improvised and composed works, with incredible ease.

Les Siècles, directed and created by François-Xavier Roth, is a group of young musicians who feel at home with both classical and more modern instruments. This orchestra draws its inspiration from several centuries of musical creation.

Berlin producer Moritz Von Oswald will also offer fans a rhythmic arrangement and a new piece co-written with Carl Craig.