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Billboard has included “The Melody” — the collaboration between Francesco Tristano and Carl Craig — in its list of the 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time.

“The Melody,” written and originally released by Francesco Tristano in 2008 on the French label InFiné. The track, later performed live with Carl Craig and featured in his 2017 Versus album, is a landmark composition blending FT’s classical background with the pulse of Detroit techno.

🎵 Listen to the original release: The Melody – Francesco Tristano on InFiné

🔗 Read the full list: Billboard – 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time

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Techno-meets-classical collaboration with Carl Craig, FT, Les Siècles Orchestr, guided by François-Xavier Roth, ‘Versus’, is now available.

‘Versus’ originally premiered in 2008, with a unique live debut at La Cité de La Musique in Paris, where Carl Craig was joined by Les Siècles orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth, Moritz von Oswald, and Francesco Tristano, who arranged and orchestrated all the tracks. Now, nine years later, ‘Versus’ comes to life as an album.

Carl Craig will also be taking Versus on the road for a string of festival performances, where he will be joined by five musicians on stage interpreting the music from the album on to a synthesizer wall.

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FT and Carl Craig were part of the back to back special of BBC Radio 1 Residency on March 30th episode. Also, you can listen to BPitch boss Ellen Allien kicking off with UK’s Blawan, Warp Records’ Clark and Nathan Fake of Ninja Tune.

Three hours of cutting edge electronic music from six of the world’s finest selectors in a Back 2 Back Special.

Play it here