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Techno icon Carl Craig goes back to the future with new box set

69

“The Legendary Adventures of a Filter King” is the name of a forthcoming vinyl-only box set of tracks recorded by Detroit techno star Carl Craig under the moniker of 69.

Collecting the previously released singles “Sound on Sound,” “4 Jazz Funk Classics,” “Lite Music” and “Pungtang,” the first 100 copies of this limited run of only 500 box set also include a special 69 T-shirt designed by San Francisco’s Nice Collective.

These productions date from the early 1990s and find Craig mining all sorts of music for sample sources (“Rushed,” for instance, famously recycles a loop from obscure U.K. electronic act Bandulu’s “Amaranth -- Love Lies Bleeding” into a metallic techno march). The results run the gamut from dense dance floor workouts (“Jam The Box”) to moody and emotional electro-ballads (“Desire”).

Exclusive to the set are previously unreleased mixes of the songs “If Mojo Was A.M.” and “Poi et Pas.” Craig’s work as 69 still stands among his most exciting and inspired studio moments to date.

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