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No other Detroit Techno album mixes soulful, deep techno with this much atmosphere- and puts it together into a unified album format. Had Stacey Pullen's 'Theory of Silent Phase' been mastered properly, it may have been the winner, but the fact that you gotta tweak the EQ to listen to it means that it loses out to this gem by Carl Craig.

I listen to this album on a regular basis. Even though it's a few years old it still sounds fresh today. I love the combination of analog warmth and digital smoothness with those classic Roland drums. The sheer musicality of this album catapults it beyond it's peers. I can't think of a techno album that works as well as this one.

A difficult album to easily assess, as the music is question is so far normally removed from traditional techno, that reasonable labelling cannot be easily deduced. Think of this as more IDM (intelligent Dance music), resolutely suited to home listening. But every then, the cerebral tone of the music, makes this something that casual listeners with be perplexed by. Is it electronica??...Is it Abstract Techno???....is it Leftfield House???, to be honest it's all of these things and more....never really settling into one genre long enough to be categorized. Listen to the Synth styled house on "Goodbye World", then listen to the ambient techno of "Televised Green Smoke", to see it morph between genres. My First listen was an bewildering but startling listen, the second revelled a layer of complexity completely missed the first time.....so although not an immediately accessible album, its one of this album deserved talked about in specialist music circles for daring to reinvent musical genres & demand intelligent investment from the listener.

Carl Craig is a brillant musician and a great songwriter. That's a rarity in electronic music. This album is brillant: filled with original and fascinating tracks that are, at once, compelling, emotional, intelligent, and cool. "Televised Green Smoke" says it all: Craig is the best. If you like electronic music at all, you MUST have this album.

it's one of the very best house/electronic albums out of detroit/chicago, ever. Carl proves he's a music lover and you can hear it; a variety of soundscapes to keep the ear interested. Not just another loud, harsh electronic bang-up; there's a lot of depth and heartfelt spirit in this music. A big jump from him Landcruising album, which is also good. But this one is Carl more developed. That said...c'mon Carl, it's 2010. bring out another creative classic like this bro!

Dex

This album is one of the greatest musical achievements EVER. From start to finish, it is overwhelming. Carl Craig shows exactly why he is called the dark prince. This is pure, emotional techno at its apex. Songs like "Televised Green Smoke" and "At Les", along with every other song, are wonderous, lush compositions. Intelligent techno is clearly well and alive.

Amazon sent me an e-mail and asked me to review this item. But then I remembered "I don't even speak english" so ...escribiré mi review en castellano. Siempre escuché hablar de este disco como una obra maestra del techno,así que me animé a probarlo (descargando rolas de un P2P)y más tarde a comprarlo en Amazon, y quedé fascinado por la simplicidad de ritmos y pequeños detalles que no cobran vida sino después de varias escuchadas. No puedo decir que tracks son mejores, simplemente es un disco para ser apreciado como unidad, con una terrible excepción: El track 13 "Attitude" es totalmente aCapella, y bastante molesto y no tiene nada que ver con el resto del disco que nisiquiera tiene vocales. Sin embargo, en cada uno de los restntes tracks, los beats son hipnóticos, llenos de "snares" y "hats" antiguos, característicos del Detroit Techno, y los basslines son simplemente de lo mejor (junto con Drexciya de quienes también escribiré un review). Bueno, es todo, espero entiendan este idoma, sino, la verdad, no me importa.... yo me entretuve escribiendo esto.

I just don't think this is the kind of five-star classic that will make a believer of the antitechno heathen. It's very nice to listen to, but the uninitiated and even listeners of catchier, dumbed down stuff (i.e. Prodigy & Chem. Bros.) might turn a deaf ear because little funk is kicked. It reeks of "intelligence," and that may be why they give it five, and most wouldn't give five bucks (as I was lucky enough to find it for, new). Understand the head trip you are about to embark upon before springing for it.

Interesting, very mellow and cool but distinctly different. This guys full of personality, it reflects in his music. I discovered him off verve remixed, a billy holiday track he did. I love his rythyms and the frequencies in which he takes his beats etc. cool.

This album is a true gem of incredibly fascinating sounds put to melodies and rythms that are creative and have strong musical integrity. Televised Green World has a kind of offbeat feel of cocktail jazz set to black-top patio atmosphere and a techo-beat. Goodbye World, though, evokes a feel for post-war Old Europe, failed espionage, and the setting of Orson Welles flicks in Old World Noir.

Much of the music is a surreal, expressionistic tone, cathartic for borderline bad dreams. A jazz and neo-classical feel is underscored throughout the record. Mostly instrumental, there is a female voice on one the songs, who also provides an accapella number that gives the listener a very pleasing seventh inning stretch of sorts, about three tracks short of the records' end.

All the years of listening to Carl Craig, I give mad props to a CD of this intellect. This is one of the best CD's I have ever heard, and it is not one to pass up. He composed a truly great mix of beats. MTV's Amp kicked off this CD with the release of Televised Green Smoke back in '96 and it was kickin. If you love techno (I hate calling it that) I highly suggest buying this CD.