Track Of The Day: Derek Carr - Terrahawk (Firescope)

There was a period of time, pre-COVID, when you couldn’t move for Derek Carr records, such was his prolificacy. Not only that, but the quality of his output was consistently top drawer. I could have chosen any one of his tracks released around this time, but upon randomly pulling ‘Distant Systems’ from my shelves, I settled upon the Gerry Anderson inspired ‘Terrahawk’. Which embodies most of what passes for a classic Carr production. Detroit inspired for sure, but owing just as much, if not more, to the emotive techno sound that emerged from The UK in the late 80s, early 90s. It’s a classic slice of dawn of time techno, the type of stuff that the early examples of mudskippers would have grooved to as they came ashore on Panthalassa. Carr’s output has tapered off over the last couple of years. However, his back catalogue should hold him in good stead for a while yet.