Tyrant

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The following has become fact: mixing records is not as important as making records; a resident DJ is less interesting than a guest DJ; creating a compilation isn't as worthy as creating an artist album. Craig Richards disagrees. Being totally committed to hunting exciting new music, to set against a personal, expansive collection, is important. Loathing travelling, turning down huge tours, and playing to a thousand people every weekend in London is interesting. And compilations? They show exactly who you are, what makes you different, so are made with care and intent. Craig removes the just-too-catchy tracks, the ones that may begin to nag you in a month or two. He records live, after planning each mix so it sits perfectly in place, and adds layers of effects and samples (in this case from telephone conversations with his dad). He pitches down the tempo slightly to make it less clubby and designs all of the artwork to make it more personal. This is his second solo mix CD following "Fabric 01" in November 2001. He's also made two other Tyrant albums with Lee Burridge.

"I never meant Tyrant to be just Lee and I. It's important to represent what we do as individuals, as for the most part we play separately. I am at Fabric every week and Lee travels a great deal. So it felt perfectly natural to work alone. "

CD1 is dancefloor re-creation, sixteen addictive, inventive tracks to get into your head and under your skin. Gone are peak-time highs and lights-down lows. This is laptops dancing: subtle, shape-shifting patterns over bright, precise percussion. Check metallic melodies, electric grooves, crystal chimes and strung-out loops. Hear kooky chords, lazy vocals, Latin hooks and backwards beats. There's echo and stutter, dub-drenched bass, cocaine rushes and ecstasy waves. Showcasing an exciting new breed of electronic artists, CD1 is a smooth, night-drive soundtrack of the freshest 4/4 around. Music to get into and get down to.

Craig's cut-up eclectic mix has its roots in radio. In the seventies he became a Peel devotee, waking in the night with headphone chord around his neck. Fifteen years later he passed time as a Night Watchman with Coldcut's seminal show on then-pirate station, Kiss. And until the station's closure last year, he fronted an experimental show for Internet broadcaster Groovetech. Selecting and programming as much as beat-matching, it's a tribute to the direct, personal, airwave experience and a fast, fresh throwback to Craig's earliest DJing encounters.

CD2 is headphone recreation; twenty-one cuts of abstract dance, made to provoke and built to last. It features offbeat stunners, downbeat slammers, spy film strings and low-slung loops. There's desktop hip hop, a trip through electro, paranoid percussion and crazed, shattered beats. Music to trip out and break down to.


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Tracklisting:

  1. Listen
    1
    Minimal Man
    Six Of One Part One
    Trellik 8
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    2
    Falko Brockspier
    Other Planets
    Triebstroff
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    3
    Seafoam
    Vibes
    Guidance
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    4
    Carsten Jost
    W.U.O (Eight Miles High Mix)
    Ladomat
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    5
    MIA
    River
    Trapez
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    6
    Jeremy Caulfield
    Face The Flames
    WMF
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    7
    John Shannanigans
    Charlies On The Dancefloor
    Cynosure
  8. Listen
    8
    Weltzwei
    Expander
    Sender
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    9
    Pantytec
    Elasobabe (Soul Capsule Remix)
    Perlon
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    10
    Luciano And Quennum
    Orange Mistake
    Cadenza
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    11
    Sieg Uber Die Sonne
    You'll Never Come Back (Villalobos Mix)
    Multicolour
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    12
    Mirwais Sangin
    Athan Dance
    Phictiv
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    13
    Bang Goes Ep
    No 5
    Bruchstuecke
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    14
    Michael Mayer
    Pensum
    Kompakt
  15. Listen
    15
    Morane
    Think
    Perlon
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    16
    Ada
    Lucky Charm
    Areal
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    17

    CD2

    Brownman Greenman
    Words
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    18
    Jimi Tenor
    Muchmo
    Warp
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    19
    Supersoul
    Nice Daze
    Metatronik
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    20
    Morgan Geist
    Food And Fuel
    Environ
  21. Listen
    21
    Joakim
    Minimum Of Life
    Versatile
  22. Listen
    22
    Chicks On Speed
    Frequent Flyer Lounge Song (Kreidler Remix)
    Chicks On Speed
  23. Listen
    23
    Fastgraph
    Systematic
    Klakson
  24. Listen
    24
    J/V/N Machine
    Unknown
    Trust
  25. Listen
    25
    Texas
    Put Your Arms Around Me (2LoneS Remix)
    Universal
  26. Listen
    26
    Voicestealer
    Undercover
    Subvert
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    27
    D.I.E.
    Programming
    Clone
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    28
    Ectomorph
    Dada
    It Future
  29. Listen
    29
    Scape One
    Programme Sequence
    Temple Dog
  30. Listen
    30
    Dettinger
    Tottentanz
    Kompakt
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    31
    Push Button Objects
    Hustlin
    Chocolate Industries
  32. Listen
    32
    Anthony Shakir
    On That Tip
    Klang
  33. Listen
    33
    Dabrye
    Smoking That Edge
    Ghostly International
  34. Listen
    34
    The Octagon Man
    Chromozoid Fly
    DC Recordings
  35. Listen
    35
    Air Liquide
    Knifflige Fraggen
    Label Unknown
  36. Listen
    36
    The Warlock
    Silence Is Defeat
    Rag And Bone
  37. Listen
    37
    X- Plain
    Whip
    Alphabet City
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