fabric Presents Claude Von Stroke
Sometimes life moves in mysterious ways. Take, for instance, Barclay Crenshaw, aka super-producer and dirtybird/mothership boss Claude VonStroke. How could he, as a rap-obsessed 16 year old dreaming of an engineering job at Metroplex (Juan Atkins' studio) in Detroit, expect that someday he'd end up headlining gigs alongside Atkins. The same could be said about his days as a frustrated creative working in post-production houses, when he began creating an electronic music documentary by interviewing internationally-renowned DJs. He never could've predicted that one day, rather ironically, he'd be in the opposite chair: the world-famous DJ being interviewed.
"Everything is really tailored; the tracks aren't really the tracks, it is all cut up, chopped and twisted. It's challenging to do a project that has to say everything in such a small time frame because I play a lot of genres. So I worked hard on getting all the different sounds that I really dig into one mix. It wasn't made as a dancefloor mix, but if you listen to it and you don't tap your feet, or move in some way, then it's just a complete failure. I wanted to create a greasy, dirty vibe but also get melancholy and funky - a little hard here, a little soft there. I picked the best music I could find and put it together in a creative way that fully represents my sound and personality." - Claude VonStroke
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