With Claude Young having recently retired from DJing, here’s one of my favourite tracks by him. Funnily enough, I’ve always thought that his recorded output wrongly played second fiddle to his skills behind the decks. When reading a piece about him, it never seemed to take long to come across words that would attempt to describe his pyrotechnic style of mixing, and his ‘DJ Kicks’ mix is often name checked were seminal techno sets are concerned. This track features on said mix, and is a bouncy acid masterclass. Neither full on or timid, it hits the right note throughout and is a great mixing track, there’s so much space around the 303. Anyway, it’s not the only piece of gold on the eponymous EP. ‘Wind Up’ is a wonderful piece of tech space ambience with teeth. Like Abacus, Young has recently released on NDTAL Muzik, Kai Alce’s label. Not techno this time, but deep house. Hopefully he won’t call time on his recording career too.
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