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Carl Cox: Electronic Generations

hen acid house and rave grandmaster Carl Cox releases a new full-length album after ten years, the dance floors can take cover. And indeed, the Briton unmistakably aims at the clubs and delivers hard-hitting techno bangers in abundance. Cox blasts us with 17 tracks and presents an album-form of his hybrid live sound. That means: In the style of his live shows, Cox tweaked pre-produced tracks in real time and recorded the results. The place of action was his studio in Melbourne during the Lockdown times. Collaborations with Fat Boy Slim, Dan Diamond and Nicole Moudaber fit seamlessly into an album whose hardcore house techno sound takes no prisoners and definitely lives up to

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