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Desire: The Carl Craig Story review – goatee-stroking homage to a techno legend
There’s a suitable air of scholarly sobriety to this music documentary about the influential Detroit DJ, but he still remains an enigma
This film about Detroit’s techno-scene éminence grise Carl Craig is as sober, goatee-stroking and serious as the kind of liner notes that squeezed into a tiny font to fit thousands of words into an album gatefold. That’s a compliment; an air of scholarly sobriety suits the subject, a man just a quarter of a generation younger than Detroit DJ legends such as Derrick May or Kevin Saunderson who helped to create the distinctive electronic sound that Craig would expand and experiment with. That last group includes a goodly wodge of Brits, such as DJ Gilles Peterson, musician Roni Size and writer Gamall Awad, who fill in just how Craig was influenced by acts like Throbbing Gristle and Gary Numan, and in turn how influential he was on the European techno scene.
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