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01. CARL CRAIG - Es.30
02. CARL CRAIG - Televised Green Smoke
03. CARL CRAIG - Goodbye World
04. CARL CRAIG - Alien Talk
05. CARL CRAIG - Red Lights
06. CARL CRAIG - Dreamland
07. CARL CRAIG - Butterfly
08. CARL CRAIG - Act 2
09. CARL CRAIG - Dominas
10. CARL CRAIG - At Les
11. CARL CRAIG - Suspiria
12. CARL CRAIG - As Time Goes By (Sitting Under a Tree)
13. CARL CRAIG - Attitude
14. CARL CRAIG - Frustration
15. CARL CRAIG - Food and Art (In the Spirit of Revolution)
16. CARL CRAIG - Bonus Untitled Track
ARTIST
TITLE
More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PLE 65370CD PLE 65370CD
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RELEASE DATE
2/17/2015

"revolutionary art is not determined by its avantgarde content; nor its formal or technical trickery, its interpretation of reality or its verisimilitude, but, rather, by how much it revolutionizes our thinking and imagination; overturning our preconceptions, bias and prejudice and inspiring us to change ourselves and the world" --Jeff Sawell's text on the cover of More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art. Carl Craig's 1997 album features such timeless highlights as "Televised Green Smoke," which, after a short introduction, floats in on a haze, working through the classic blueprint of dance music -- the gradual addition of layered, complementary elements -- until it reaches a soft peak. "Red Lights" works a slow-grind breakbeat, cycling through the Paperclip People oscillator with strings in the background and an atmosphere reminiscent of The Godfather. "Dreamland" and "Butterfly" are closer to traditional Detroit productions, sharp and focused but rather melancholy; the former is a reach-out to the Britain-Detroit axis (As One, The Black Dog, B12), while the latter evokes the classic late '80s productions of Craig's friend Derrick May (who co-produced a later track on the album, "Frustration"). The Maurizio dub "Dominas" is nocturnal and unhurried, even despite the insistent beat and a female vocal sample repeating the title one word after another -- it's included here, though it was left off the original vinyl release. Another classic, "At Les," balances a few gently cascading chords with a rhythm program that keeps pushing the track forward and faster. Planet E and Rush Hour now present a remastered reissue of this techno classic.