69 - 4 Jazz Funk Classics

Alain_Patrick, Aug 04, 2007

One of Carl Craig’s seminal projects of the nineties. Sixty Nines tunes brought an amazingly broad & eclectic perspective to the World of underground electronic music. "4 Jazz Funk Classics", from 1991, Honored the Breakbeats & Jazz-Funk influences, still with great futuristic-electronic perspective. This is his start as 69, acclaimed by the specialists. "Ladies & Gentlemen", the opening tune, had sweet synths and percussion, with a sudden bassline storm and space effects causing a severe impact on the audience, meant to put the intense listeners into total hypnosis; absolutely perfect for a rave climax, the tune also surprises with a mega breakbeat at the drop out (probably sampled by an old school break standard) - followed by the bassline nightmare on the sequence.
"If Mojo was a.m." reminds the legendary Electrifying Mojo, who used to play magnificent sets on a Detroit Radio at nights during the eighties that influenced all the techno pioneers. Carl Craig did this music with very well made percussion, a fine bass and of course a sense for the underground.
"My Machines pt 1 & 2" is a mixture of experimentalism, bleep synths, modulations, and abstrack breaks at the drop out. The "Frequency Finale" is fast, strange, and pure panic, in a pandemonium of 303; it was inspired on Visages seminal classic "Frequency 7" (that even Mojo would play on his Radio Sessions). A Grand finale!

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