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Legendary producer/DJ/label owner/scene figurehead Carl Craig has been infecting listeners with his sticky, sweaty throb and dizzying patchwork of off-color brass bursts, tumble-dry techno, and theatric house vocals for the past decade and a half. With his Paperclip People, Innerzone Orchestra, and solo projects, his Planet E imprint, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and remixes for everybody from Tori Amos and Depeche Mode to Throbbing Gristle and Zap Mama, Craig has helped define modern electronic dance music, from techno to drum n bass and beyond.

He also really likes the Ying Yang Twins.

Craig's forthcoming mix CD, Fabric 25, set for release December 6 on the London club Fabric's record label, kicks off with the YYT banger "Wait (The Whisper Song)". After promising to beat the pussy up, the disc continues with seventeen more tracks by people you've probably never heard of, unless you're an avid XLR8R reader (hey look who's on the cover this month-- Carl Craig!) Since this is the latest entry in Fabric's esteemed mix series, we're sure it will sound awesome, even if all of the artist names are aliases for the same pasty white European sound engineer who never leaves the studio.

Wait til you see my tracklist:

01 Yang Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper Song)
02 Carl Craig - Angel (Caya Dub)
03 Trickski - Sweat
04 Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym
05 Just One - Love2Love [Phlash Edit]
06 Megablast - Jupita [Stereotyp Remix]
07 Scott Grooves - The Journey
08 Africanism - Imbalaye
09 Blaze Presents UDA feat. Barbara Tucker - Most Precious Love [DF Future 3000 Instrumental]
10 Rayon - The Panther [Rubber Re-Edit]
11 Soundstream - 3rd Movement
12 Dark Comedy - Good God
13 D'Malicious - Alive
14 Pasta Boys - Limit
15 DJ Yoav B. - Energize
16 Nick Petty & Shamus Coghlan - Crushing
17 Carl Craig - Darkness
18 Tokyo Black Star - Blade Dancer [Dixon Edit]

Craig will celebrate Fabric 25 with a pair of release parties in New York City and Chicago next week, each preceded by an in-store set:

12-01 New York, NY - Adidas Originals (in store)
12-01 New York, NY - APT
12-01 Chicago, IL - Gramaphone Records (in store)
12-02 Chicago, IL - Smart Bar

In addition to the Fabric mix, Craig has a crate-load of releases in the works, including a new artist album due next summer, Theo Parrish and Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom remixes, a Japan-only sequel to his Designer Music remix compilation, and a collection of influential techno tracks titled Kings of House, selected by Craig and Laurent Garnier, scheduled to come out on BBE in March. Also, Craig recently spun a set on DFA associate Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space radio show on New York City's WNYU, which can be downloaded from the Beats in Space website for home laptop-rocking.

*Fabric:http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/home.php