Alter Ego - Gary
Klang Elektronik - KLANG 132
It took me a while to settle into this epic overflowing madness. Everything’s shrinking to minimal these days, so it’s hard for a modern house music consumer not to be blown away by such large storm of sound. Even Carl Craig has recently shown more of his ’spartan’ style of composing. So the remix of Gary, as well as the original, is like enjoying a nice Russian Cheburek (a pie filled with grease, basically) after a long fibre diet. By the first taste of it, I couldn’t quite digest it. But once I got my thinking set to the right context (think Gary Numan and maybe a bit of Kraftwerk), it started to grow on me pretty fast.
In this context I’d even prefer the original over Carl Craig remix, with its robust drum programming and more exciting variation on the bassline. But would I spin it on a club night? Honestly, it’s a pretentious track with such strong character that it would definitely need some serious fitting into my usual playlist. So I’d be careful about this, but probably would take the chance. Especially while focusing on some 80s stuff.
A: Original Mix
B: Carl Craig Remix
April 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
It took me another while to realise that the track is most probably named after mr Numan