END OF YEAR SALE - SPEND £60 GET 25% OFF! - WEBSITE UPDATED DEC 2023

Carl Craig Live Classic & Minimal Techno DJ-Sets Compilation (1995 - 2023)

Carl Craig Live Classic & Minimal Techno DJ-Sets Compilation (1995 - 2023)

Carl Craig Live Classic & Minimal Techno DJ-Sets Compilation (1995 - 2023)

Regular price £14.99

Carl Craig (1995 - 2023)
Live Classics & Techno DJ Sets Compilation

40 Live DJ-Sets + 55 Hours of Music

 

We have put together this Quality Collection of Classic Techno DJ-Sets which offers the buyer a great chance to purchase this fantastic series of DJ Sets from one of the original Techno DJ's all in one Convenient Affordable DJ-Sets Compilation 

The DJ-Sets can easily be used on your Home Entertainment System, In-Car MP3 Player, Home PC / Apple Mac, Apple iPod / iPhone / iPad, Portable Music Player or Tablet and through your Smart TV or DJ Equipment using the USB Drive option, so you have a huge variety of different devices in which you can play our DJ-Set Compilations, regardless of whether you are at home, in the car, or the train or on the move. 


Compilation Listing

1994 - 1995 CARL CRAIG CLASSIC TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ Fuse in Brussels (03.12.94) – 90 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ Fuse in Brussels (15.04.95) – 45 Mins
Carl Craig - Live on Radio 1 Essential Mix (01.10.95) - 2 Hours

2000 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ The Weekend Of Love in Berlin (07.07.00) – 1 Hour

2008 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ Extrema Outdoor Festival 2008 (19.07.08) - 30 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ The Love Parade 2008 in Berlin (19.07.08) - 20 Mins

2009 - 2010 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ Detroit Electronic Festival 2009 (25.05.09) - 90 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ Tomorrowland 2010 in Boom (24.07.10) - 20 Mins

2011 - 2012 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live on Radio 1 Essential Mix (26.02.11) - 2 Hours
Carl Craig - Live @ The Hoxton in Toronto (08.11.12) - 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ Sputnik (16.12.12) - 1 Hour

2013 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ CLR Radioshow (19.03.13) - 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ Movement on Detroit Radio (09.03.13) - 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ Red Bull Music Academy (21.03.13) - 90 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ Movement 2013 in Detroit (25.05.13) - 90 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ Awakenings, ADE 2013 (16.10.13) - 3 Hours
Carl Craig - Live @ Transmissions (01.12.13) - 3 Hours

2014 - 2015 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ We Are FSTVL 2014 in London (25.05.14) – 2 Hours
Carl Craig - Live @ Movement 2014 in Detroit (24.05.14) – 90 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ Space 25th Anniversary in Ibiza (13.07.14) – 90 Mins
Magda & Carl Craig - Live @ VH1 Supersonic in Goa (27.12.14) – 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ Boiler Room in Detroit (07.03.15) – 150 Mins

2016 - 2017 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ Movement 2016 in Detroit (29.05.16) – 2 Hours
Carl Craig - Live @ MIR, Space in Ibiza (30.08.16) – 2 Hours
Carl Craig - Live @ Slam ADE Takeover in Amsterdam (22.10.16) – 30 Mins
Carl Craig - Live @ Space Closing Fiesta 2016 in Ibiza (02.10.16) – 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ Detroit Love, BPM 2017 in Mexico (12.01.17) – 2 Hours

2020 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ Movement 2020 Virtual Festival (24.05.20) – 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ ReConnect
Together for Beirut (22.08.20) – 1 Hour
Carl Craig - Live @ Hacienda 24 Hour NYE Party (31.12.20) – 1 Hour

2021 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ CRSSD Festival in San Diego (25.09.21) – 90 Mins

2022 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig & Seth Troxler - Live @ Radio FG in Paris (09.12.22) – 2 Hours

2023 CARL CRAIG DETROIT TECHNO DJ-SETS

Carl Craig - Live @ 909 Festival 2023 in Amsterdam (28.05.23) - 90 Mins


 Artists Profile

 


 

Current Location :: Detroit, MI, USA 

Music Genres :: Techno 

 

 

Dancefloor experimentalist and top Detroit techno producer Carl Craig has few equals in terms of the artistry, influence, and diversity of his recordings. Few others have recorded so much quality music in such a variety of styles than Craig, who jammed distorted beat-box samples into lo-fi electro riggings, crafted epic house tracks like his remix of Tori Amos' "God," and recorded the most sublime Detroit techno since godfathers Juan Atkins and Derrick May were at their peak. After an apprenticeship during the late '80s with Derrick May, Craig began releasing his own recordings in 1989, first on May's Transmat imprint and later on his own label, Planet E Communications.

During the following decade, Craig spread his work between solo aliases -- Paperclip People, Innerzone Orchestra, 69 -- and his own name. With each new project and each change of musical direction though, he distinguished himself as one of the few artists to consistently hit the mark with productions whose subtleties in the living room more than matched their infectious energy on the dancefloor. When he was growing up and attending Detroit's Cooley High, Craig was turned on to a diverse musical diet ranging from Prince to Led Zeppelin to the Smiths. He often practiced on his guitar, but later became interested in club music as well through his cousin, who worked lighting for various parties around the Detroit area.

The first wave of Detroit techno had already set sail by the mid-'80s, and Craig began listening to tracks courtesy of Derrick May's radio show on WJLB. He began experimenting with recording techniques using dual-deck cassette players, and later convinced his parents to buy him a synthesizer and sequencer. Craig also studied electronic music, including the work of Morton Subotnick, Wendy Carlos and Pauline Oliveros. While taking an electronics course, he met a mutual friend of May and passed on a tape including some of his home productions. May loved what he heard and brought him into the studio to re-record one track, "Neurotic Behavior." Completely beatless in its original mix (since Craig didn't own a drum machine), the track was just as sublime and visionary as Juan Atkins' blueprint for cosmic techno-funk yet called on emotions previously found only on Derrick May's material.

The British fascination with Detroit techno was just beginning to take hold by 1989, and Carl Craig was invited to witness the phenomenon first-hand by touring with May's Rhythim Is Rhythim project (which supported Kevin Saunderson's Inner City on several English dates). The trip became an extended working holiday, as Craig helped out on production for a re-recording of May's classic "Strings of Life" and the new Rhythim Is Rhythim single, "The Beginning." He also found time to record several tracks of his own at R&S Studios in Belgium. On his return to the U.S., Craig released several R&S tracks on the Crackdown EP, recorded as Psyche for May's Transmat Records.

Craig then founded Retroactive Records with Damon Booker, and despite working days at a copy shop, continued recording in his parents' basement. Carl Craig released six singles for Retroactive during 1990-91 (as BFC, Paperclip People and Carl Craig) but the label was dissolved in 1991 due to disputes with Booker. 

That same year, Craig formed the solo concern Planet E Communications for the release of his new EP 4 Jazz Funk Classics (recorded as 69). Deliberately lo-fi and gritty with the implementation of funky beat-box samples, tracks like "If Mojo Was AM" presented a new leap forward after the compulsive sheen of Retroactive singles like "Galaxy" and "From Beyond." Besides the distortion of 4 Jazz Funk Classics, his other Planet E work during 1991 contained off-the-cuff nods to such disparate moods as hip-hop and hardcore techno.

The following year's "Bug in the Bassbin" unveiled another Carl Craig alias, Innerzone Orchestra, and added elements of jazz to his beatbox frenzy. In the process, Craig became an uncommon influence on the early progression of the British drum'n'bass movement -- DJs and producers often pitched up "Bug in the Bassbin" from 33 to 45-rpm for a do-it-yourself jungle breakbeat. The release of Paperclip People's "Throw" added disco and funk to Craig's growing list of active inspirations; his natural progression into remixes during 1994 provided the dance world with versions of Maurizio, Inner City and La Funk Mob tracks plus a stunning reworking of the Tori Amos song "God," that lasted almost ten minutes. Thanks in large part to the Tori Amos remix, Craig soon signed his first contract with major-label exposure, to the Blanco y Negro division of Europe's Mute Records.

His first full-length, 1995's Landcruising, opened up the Carl Craig sound and gave it an epic feel closer in spirit to his earlier recordings, while the thematic tug of a journey around metro Detroit mirrored Juan Atkins' Model 500 tracks like "Night Drive." Landcruising opened up the market for Craig's material and several months later, R&S Records released 69's Sound of Music, a compilation of two EPs released the previous year for the Belgian label.

In 1996, the high-profile British house label Ministry of Sound released a new Paperclip People single called "The Floor," composed of hard, clipped techno beats but an elastic bassline and prevalent disco sample that earned it much airplay in house venues. Though he was already one of the most noted names in the world of techno, Craig's reputation began growing in the more general category of mainstream/global dance, and he soon became less tied to the mantle of Detroit techno than many of his contemporaries. Craig helmed one in the series of DJ Kicks albums released by Studio !K7 and spent several months based in London.

He returned to Detroit later in 1996 to focus on Planet E, which released a Paperclip People album titled The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich (mostly collecting previous singles) and a Psyche/BFC retrospective titled Elements 1989-1990. The new year brought the second proper Carl Craig LP, More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Art. He spent much of 1998 touring the world as Innerzone Orchestra with a jazzy trio. The project also released an LP, Programmed, expanding Craig's full-length output to seven -- though only three had appeared under his own name.

Two collections appeared during 1999-2000, including the Planet E mix album House Party 013 and the remix compilation Designer Music. The mix collection, Onsumothasheeat, was issued in early 2001. Carl Craig Dancefloor experimentalist and top Detroit techno producer Carl Craig has few equals in terms of the artistry, influence, and diversity of his recordings. Few others have recorded so much quality music in such a variety of styles than Craig, who jammed distorted beat-box samples into lo-fi electro riggings, crafted epic house tracks like his remix of Tori Amos' "God," and recorded the most sublime Detroit techno since godfathers Juan Atkins and Derrick May were at their peak. After an apprenticeship during the late '80s with Derrick May, Craig began releasing his own recordings in 1989, first on May's Transmat imprint and later on his own label, Planet E Communications. During the following decade, Craig spread his work between solo aliases -- Paperclip People, Innerzone Orchestra, 69 -- and his own name.

With each new project and each change of musical direction though, he distinguished himself as one of the few artists to consistently hit the mark with productions whose subtleties in the living room more than matched their infectious energy on the dancefloor. When he was growing up and attending Detroit's Cooley High, Craig was turned on to a diverse musical diet ranging from Prince to Led Zeppelin to the Smiths. He often practiced on his guitar, but later became interested in club music as well through his cousin, who worked lighting for various parties around the Detroit area. The first wave of Detroit techno had already set sail by the mid-'80s, and Craig began listening to tracks courtesy of Derrick May's radio show on WJLB. He began experimenting with recording techniques using dual-deck cassette players, and later convinced his parents to buy him a synthesizer and sequencer. Craig also studied electronic music, including the work of Morton Subotnick, Wendy Carlos and Pauline Oliveros.

While taking an electronics course, he met a mutual friend of May and passed on a tape including some of his home productions. May loved what he heard and brought him into the studio to re-record one track, "Neurotic Behavior." Completely beatless in its original mix (since Craig didn't own a drum machine), the track was just as sublime and visionary as Juan Atkins' blueprint for cosmic techno-funk yet called on emotions previously found only on Derrick May's material.

The British fascination with Detroit techno was just beginning to take hold by 1989, and Carl Craig was invited to witness the phenomenon first-hand by touring with May's Rhythim Is Rhythim project (which supported Kevin Saunderson's Inner City on several English dates). The trip became an extended working holiday, as Craig helped out on production for a re-recording of May's classic "Strings of Life" and the new Rhythim Is Rhythim single, "The Beginning." He also found time to record several tracks of his own at R&S Studios in Belgium. On his return to the U.S., Craig released several R&S tracks on the Crackdown EP, recorded as Psyche for May's Transmat Records. Craig then founded Retroactive Records with Damon Booker, and despite working days at a copy shop, continued recording in his parents' basement.

Carl Craig released six singles for Retroactive during 1990-91 (as BFC, Paperclip People and Carl Craig) but the label was dissolved in 1991 due to disputes with Booker. That same year, Craig formed the solo concern Planet E Communications for the release of his new EP 4 Jazz Funk Classics (recorded as 69). Deliberately lo-fi and gritty with the implementation of funky beat-box samples, tracks like "If Mojo Was AM" presented a new leap forward after the compulsive sheen of Retroactive singles like "Galaxy" and "From Beyond." Besides the distortion of 4 Jazz Funk Classics, his other Planet E work during 1991 contained off-the-cuff nods to such disparate moods as hip-hop and hardcore techno.

The following year's "Bug in the Bassbin" unveiled another Carl Craig alias, Innerzone Orchestra, and added elements of jazz to his beatbox frenzy. In the process, Craig became an uncommon influence on the early progression of the British drum'n'bass movement -- DJs and producers often pitched up "Bug in the Bassbin" from 33 to 45-rpm for a do-it-yourself jungle breakbeat. The release of Paperclip People's "Throw" added disco and funk to Craig's growing list of active inspirations; his natural progression into remixes during 1994 provided the dance world with versions of Maurizio, Inner City and La Funk Mob tracks plus a stunning reworking of the Tori Amos song "God," that lasted almost ten minutes. Thanks in large part to the Tori Amos remix, Craig soon signed his first contract with major-label exposure, to the Blanco y Negro division of Europe's Mute Records.

His first full-length, 1995's Landcruising, opened up the Carl Craig sound and gave it an epic feel closer in spirit to his earlier recordings, while the thematic tug of a journey around metro Detroit mirrored Juan Atkins' Model 500 tracks like "Night Drive." Landcruising opened up the market for Craig's material and several months later, R&S Records released 69's Sound of Music, a compilation of two EPs released the previous year for the Belgian label. In 1996, the high-profile British house label Ministry of Sound released a new Paperclip People single called "The Floor," composed of hard, clipped techno beats but an elastic bassline and prevalent disco sample that earned it much airplay in house venues. Though he was already one of the most noted names in the world of techno, Craig's reputation began growing in the more general category of mainstream/global dance, and he soon became less tied to the mantle of Detroit techno than many of his contemporaries. Craig helmed one in the series of DJ Kicks albums released by Studio !K7 and spent several months based in London. He returned to Detroit later in 1996 to focus on Planet E, which released a Paperclip People album titled The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich (mostly collecting previous singles) and a Psyche/BFC retrospective titled Elements 1989-1990.

The new year brought the second proper Carl Craig LP, More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Art. He spent much of 1998 touring the world as Innerzone Orchestra with a jazzy trio. The project also released an LP, Programmed, expanding Craig's full-length output to seven -- though only three had appeared under his own name. Two collections appeared during 1999-2000, including the Planet E mix album House Party 013 and the remix compilation Designer Music. The mix collection.

 

Testimonials

Share blog posts, products, or promotions with your customers. Use this text to describe products, share details on availability and style, or as a space to display recent reviews or FAQs.

Author's name

Share blog posts, products, or promotions with your customers. Use this text to describe products, share details on availability and style, or as a space to display recent reviews or FAQs.

Author's name

Share blog posts, products, or promotions with your customers. Use this text to describe products, share details on availability and style, or as a space to display recent reviews or FAQs.

Author's name

Share blog posts, products, or promotions with your customers. Use this text to describe products, share details on availability and style, or as a space to display recent reviews or FAQs.

Author's name
Website FAQ

Website Frequently Asked Questions.

Frequently Asked Questions
Delivery Details

Our Digital Delivery, Global Packaging & Delivery Details.

Delivery Information
Website Polices

Content, Artist and Refunds & Returns Policies

Refunds & Returns
Buy With Confidence

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed on All Purchases Made Through This Store.