The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich

The only album by Carl Craig under his Paperclip People persona collects together several of his early 90s 12" releases. So you get plenty of rolling 909 percussion, growling basses and soaring pads, all built with Craig’s distinctive, leftfield production aesthetic. All the tracks here are precision-tooled dancefloor material and it’s one of Detroit techno’s most house-sounding albums, including some disco-cut up jams and lots of low-intensity, funky, abstract half-house/half-techno moments. Although it all hovers around a similar tempo, there’s plenty of variation in mood. Deep, dark and funky.