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ahh, to be in Detroit! - Carl Craig to do Demon Days @ Oslo
from detroit free press:
Dance away the demons
Detroit DJ Carl Craig brings new event to Oslo
BY TIM PRATT
FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER
March 17, 2006
Demon Days
Featuring Carl Craig, Gamall and DJ S2
9 p.m.-4 a.m.
Oslo
1456 Woodward, Detroit
313-963-0300
$15
Detroit techno visionary Carl Craig marks a return to Detroit club land with the debut of his Demon Days, which hits downtown sushi bar and nightclub Oslo tonight.
Craig has long played a key role in Detroit electronic music, garnering worldwide respect among electronic music fans as one of the Motor City's premier techno stalwarts. His resume is long and varied: producer, remixer, DJ, record label owner and the creative architect for the original version of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Yet, 16 years after making his recording debut, Craig continues to persevere and push the boundaries of his musical career.
Craig, who has been holed up in the studio for nearly two years working on his long-awaited new solo album and remixes for other artists, says Demon Days, which has been held in New York and Chicago, is a musical reflection of the dark times we live in, and a chance for people to shake off those demons.
Craig chatted with the Free Press about the club night, his new album and more.
QUESTION: What have you been up to?
ANSWER: I'm still continuing on the two-year adventure of completing a new record. It's been a lot of change, a lot of personal change, like I had a daughter. And professional change -- I've been DJing a lot, which has been great, and doing a lot of remixes, that's how I kept things flowing. On the DJ side, getting the amount of time and headspace to continually work on music.
Q: Tell me about Demon Days.
A: We started in New York at APT and Smart Bar in Chicago. By calling it Demon Days, it's not a tribute to the guerrillas but more a political statement of what's happening today. We're getting closer to Revelation, Jesus' second coming; the world is coming to an end, the demon days. So, let's party before it's time to go.
Q: What's the characteristic of the night?
A: Dark, deep. Kind of ominous, more of a statement to what's happening today in music but as well, retaining factors of what we already know. There's a mixture of German electronic, English electronic, U.S. electronic. You could potentially hear Sun Ra and our kind of music, as well as a straightforward kind of thing.
Q: When was the last time you played in Detroit?
A: At Oslo, I think last January. It's been more than a year since I played.
Q: Are you going to be playing any new stuff at all?
A: Yeah, some new things. I usually try to test out my stuff in the clubs before I put it out so I can make sure it sounds right or the response is right.
Q: You say the new album is going to be vocal-oriented. Do you have a guest vocalist or are you doing any vocals?
A: Yeah, it's going to be me doing most of the stuff. And I'm not a singer, but in the similar sense of Johnny Rotten doing vocals, so kinda punky, very black -- black punky. Punk soul, soul punk.
Q: Are you thinking it'll be a late 2006 release?
A: It was supposed to be this month but that's not going to happen. I feel good about it. Two years I've been working on this thing and I really gotta get it out, make it happen.
Dance away the demons
Detroit DJ Carl Craig brings new event to Oslo
BY TIM PRATT
FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER
March 17, 2006
Demon Days
Featuring Carl Craig, Gamall and DJ S2
9 p.m.-4 a.m.
Oslo
1456 Woodward, Detroit
313-963-0300
$15
Detroit techno visionary Carl Craig marks a return to Detroit club land with the debut of his Demon Days, which hits downtown sushi bar and nightclub Oslo tonight.
Craig has long played a key role in Detroit electronic music, garnering worldwide respect among electronic music fans as one of the Motor City's premier techno stalwarts. His resume is long and varied: producer, remixer, DJ, record label owner and the creative architect for the original version of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Yet, 16 years after making his recording debut, Craig continues to persevere and push the boundaries of his musical career.
Craig, who has been holed up in the studio for nearly two years working on his long-awaited new solo album and remixes for other artists, says Demon Days, which has been held in New York and Chicago, is a musical reflection of the dark times we live in, and a chance for people to shake off those demons.
Craig chatted with the Free Press about the club night, his new album and more.
QUESTION: What have you been up to?
ANSWER: I'm still continuing on the two-year adventure of completing a new record. It's been a lot of change, a lot of personal change, like I had a daughter. And professional change -- I've been DJing a lot, which has been great, and doing a lot of remixes, that's how I kept things flowing. On the DJ side, getting the amount of time and headspace to continually work on music.
Q: Tell me about Demon Days.
A: We started in New York at APT and Smart Bar in Chicago. By calling it Demon Days, it's not a tribute to the guerrillas but more a political statement of what's happening today. We're getting closer to Revelation, Jesus' second coming; the world is coming to an end, the demon days. So, let's party before it's time to go.
Q: What's the characteristic of the night?
A: Dark, deep. Kind of ominous, more of a statement to what's happening today in music but as well, retaining factors of what we already know. There's a mixture of German electronic, English electronic, U.S. electronic. You could potentially hear Sun Ra and our kind of music, as well as a straightforward kind of thing.
Q: When was the last time you played in Detroit?
A: At Oslo, I think last January. It's been more than a year since I played.
Q: Are you going to be playing any new stuff at all?
A: Yeah, some new things. I usually try to test out my stuff in the clubs before I put it out so I can make sure it sounds right or the response is right.
Q: You say the new album is going to be vocal-oriented. Do you have a guest vocalist or are you doing any vocals?
A: Yeah, it's going to be me doing most of the stuff. And I'm not a singer, but in the similar sense of Johnny Rotten doing vocals, so kinda punky, very black -- black punky. Punk soul, soul punk.
Q: Are you thinking it'll be a late 2006 release?
A: It was supposed to be this month but that's not going to happen. I feel good about it. Two years I've been working on this thing and I really gotta get it out, make it happen.
