Name: Versus
Brand: Carl Craig

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

if1042lp

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Gatefold double vinyl with digital download.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

3700398716855

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Carl Craig

Genre GB

Techno / Electro

Label GB

In Fine

Monumental symphonic versions of Carl Craig’s classic material, reinforced and magnified by Les Siecles Orchestra. Iconic French conductor François-Xavier Roth is at the helm of the symphony whilst InFiné mainstay Francesco Tristano supports on piano. From an initial recording in 2010, the project evolved into a full album that has been tweaked further in the studio by Craig himself. The re-works reveal the timelessness of At Les and Darkness through tense yet fragile new arrangements, along with two original compositions by Tristano - Barceloneta Trist and The Melody. Versus first took form as a captivating live concert on May 18th, 2008 at Paris’ Cité de la Musique, featuring this very same line-up. The hedonism of club culture made a rare incursion into the hallowed grounds of more serious traditional music, merging the vocabularies and syntaxes of two genres that seem to be from their own faraway galaxies but actually turned out to be more porous than expected as they collided into one another. A bemused Carl Craig recalls that the “audience stopped just short of snapping their fingers to the rhythm. Everyone was literally on the verge of dancing, and François- Xavier was getting his first taste of that thrill that DJs get when they are playing for a room. We were like two kids rummaging through a candy shop - I toured him through my universe and he showed me his.”

2LP - Gatefold double vinyl with digital download card. 

3LP - Limited Triple edition that includes a bonus disc of stripped back versions and digital download card. 

Versus

Music GB