Comments on: Sure we can clean it up in the (re)edit

By: dean

dean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:59:03 +0000

and also this charcteristic is something that the copycat punks sinply can’t recreate. They might have software which emulates the sound perfectly, super-powerful sequencers with 100’s of channels and millions of effects but (most of em) still can’t make a simple beautiful groove like C2/BC/hood etc

By: dean

dean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:53:43 +0000

“simple yet brilliant”
That’s a beautiful thing that could be used to describe a lot of what Carl does. The most complex and rewarding sounds are often ones that seem so perfectly simple. A lot of Carl’s stuff just seems so effortless, so subtle but it takes serious talent to make something sound simple. You could also look at Basic Channel or Rob Hood as other examples of making music which uses subtlety as an exact impactive force.

By: Tom B.

Tom B. — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:50:48 +0000

Mark E.’s edits are always worth checking out … always inventive and radically different to the original …. why else bother? (for those that commercially release them anyway)

By: gmos

gmos — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:12:06 +0000

I love the emphasis on the bass that CC brings to the Talking Heads edit, simple yet brilliant.

By: gmos

gmos — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:09:42 +0000

I think there’s been a bit of edit overkill, it’s obviously a lot easier to do an edit these days, but a lot of them don’t seem to amount to much more than a bootleg with extended intro and break. I guess, as with anything, it’s just a matter of filtering out the crap, but you’ll need an industrial standard filter! There’s certainly been a resurgence in disco in recent years, but without much original disco being made, people are putting out edits of older and often obscure stuff to feed demand.

I loved the Terje edit of Chic with a nod to Moodymann yet keeping more of the feel of the original. Rahaan’s edits are pretty good too.

By: dean

dean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:51:48 +0000

I’m all over it boyee

By: pipecock

pipecock — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:21:26 +0000

i have to say, the nonsense reguarding Maelstrom on DJHistory about his Miura edit was hilarious. his post about it got a response from Darshan of Metro Area which was pretty funny. i have to admit i jumped in on Maelstrom’s side even though i thought his edit was ridiculously unnecessary.

i have been buying less edits recently, for no real good reason either. we got a couple decent things through at 720 but none caught my attention enough to warrant picking up.

By: kenny

kenny — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:12:39 +0000

@ Dean, you should track down that C2 edit of Talking Heads. It’s superb!

By: pipecock

pipecock — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:01:16 +0000

that would be a dope talent to have!

By: dean

dean — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:57:27 +0000

Damn Damn Damn Damn.
Has Carl Craig already done EVERY single track i’ve been planning to remake/re-edit??
I’m referring to the talking heads track you’ve mentioned. I have been working on re-editing/remaking this track for some time now and didn’t realise that Carl has done it.
ALSO i was planning to remake People make the world go around by the stylistics until one day whilst digging in spindizzy records i put on the new planet e record, flipped on to the kdj mix and a few bars in thought “where do i know those riffs from??” you win again Carl
On top of that i had been planning on re-editing congoman by the congos until one day whilst browsing the internet i saw a record called Congoman (C2 edits) and said DAMN he did it again
Not that i’m complaining mind, he’s “probably” done a WAY better job and i’m fairly sure i couldn’t jave matched amp fiddler’s rhodes solo or norma jean’s sax solo on people make the world go round
Maybe all i have to do is think about something and i will find a carl craig edit
hhhmmmm….