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| | Derrick May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | One of techno music's key founders, Derrick May was born in Detroit in 1963 and began early in his life to explore electronic music. | | | May has not released any new music since 1993, but has continued his career as a DJ, continuing to perform regularly in Europe and Asia. | | | May's career started in 1987 with the release of a record called "Nude Photo", which helped kickstart the Detroit techno music scene. |
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| | Dj Derrick May (USA) :: Culture Picks :: Moscow's virtual community for English speaking expats and Russians |
| | May was fascinated by the warmth and community feeling engendered at spots like the Power Plant and the Music Box, where DJs Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy used elaborate turntable set-ups and reel-to-reel machines to create mastermixes which re-invoked the spirit of disco even while pushing music forward. | | | The classic Derrick May sound is a clever balance between streamlined percussion-heavy cascades of sound with string samples and a warmth gained from time spent in Chicago, enraptured by the grooves of essential DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles. | | | May's Transmat Records label was the home of his best material, cuts like "Nude Photo," "Strings of Life," "Kaos" and "It Is What It Is," most produced from 1987 to 1989 as Rhythim Is Rhythim. |
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http://www.expat.ru/culturepics_ann.php?cid=130
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| | PerthSeen.net: Derrick May |
| | May went on to cut three tracks on System 7's debut album, before Network released Innovator: Soundtrack For The Tenth Planet in 1991, a six-track EP that comprised some of May's definitive moments to date. | | | Whilst DJing with Atkins, May spent time visiting his mother in Chicago, where he was exposed to the emerging house music scene that was being championed by the likes of Frankie Knuckles and Farley Jackmaster Funk. | | | This has resulted in the long-awaited release of Rhythim Is Rhythim's 1991 recordings, "Kao-tic Harmony" and "Icon", and the Japanese (and subsequent American) release of a comprehensive Derrick May retrospective, Innovator, which contains all May's work for the Transmat label including remixes and tracks released for the first time. |
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http://www.perthseen.net/profiles/derrickmay.shtml
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| | Derrick May Article and Interview : Chicago Innerview Magazine |
| | May's releases have an improbable endurance and, even at 16 years old, "Strings of Life" is a common sound at dance clubs and on DJ mix shows. | | | Not to mention running a record label, organizing one of the world's largest free music festivals and, oh yeah, being one of the creators of a new style of music that is helping define a generation. | | | May says this makes for a more educated music consumer, and hurts the music industry's profits at many levels. |
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http://www.chicagoinnerview.com/archives/dec03_derrick_may.htm
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| | Derrick May (1963 - ) |
| | When May released "Nude Photo" into the unknown a year later, following it with what was to become one of house music's classic anthems, the seminal "Strings Of Life", he (like Kevin and Juan) was still unaware of the effect that this music was to have on the European house scene. | | | The double CD Innovator (Transmat, 1997) contains all the music that May has ever released. | | | In the summer of '86 the trio's early explorations produced what was to be the first release on May's own Transmat label, "Let's Go" by X-Ray - an hypnotic space-dub-house journey across the dancefloor. |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/DerrickMay.html
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| | Armchair DJ: Music Review: Derrick May: Innovator |
| | But given May's absence from the recording studio for the better part of the '90s, they're a welcome reminder that today's playboy DJ is yesterday's innovator. | | | But Derrick May? His tracks are so singluar in their vision and intensity, they seem to obey no laws but their own. | | | At their most accessible, May's tracks sound like a skewed take on the Larry Heard classic "Can You Feel It?" At their weirdest, they sound like nothing that's been recorded, either before or since. |
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http://www.armchair-dj.com/reviews/i/innovator.asp
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| | Movement |
| | Derrick May traces the beginnings of the Detroit Techno sound back to his teenagers years: "We were teenagers having competitions with records and turntables. | | | Preeminent Detroit Techno artist Derrick May with Phil Barash, Manuel Garza, and members of the electronic music community discuss the festival as a catalyst within an increasingly homogenized cultural landscape. | | | Today, they continue to push the limits of acoustic and digital technologies to create a movement of music that is a catalyst for musicians worldwide. |
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http://www.movementfestival.com/news.html
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| | MidsouthRaves.org - Derrick May : Secrets of Techno |
| | You could tell you were listening to Derrick May from those strings that weren't strings, sounds that were neither electronic nor acoustic but shimmered in their own space. | | | February 11th, 2002 03:40 PM hey vlad...i have a frankie knuckles track with adeva on it but i forget which one. | | | They play with Derrick's plastic toys, D. Wynn posing an action man with balaclava and sub-machine gun to look mean, Derrick countering with his Buzz Lightyear. |
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http://www.midsouthraves.org/community/printthread.php?t=559
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| | Derrick May- TIGERSUSHI |
| | Derrick May is one of the "innovators" who created modern Techno music in the 80s in Detroit. | | | He composed some of the most influential techno anthems ever like Strings Of Life and Nude Photo but he hasn't been releasing new material since the mid 90's. |
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http://www.tigersushi.com/site/Art.jsp?ArtId=541
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| | Armchair DJ: Music Review: Various Artists: Derrick May: The Mayday Mix |
| | It's been years since Derrick May made a record, and some wonder if he ever will again. | | | One of the originators of Detroit techno and the man behind the classic "Strings of Life," May has spent the '90s living the role of superstar DJ, spinning everywhere from dirty Chicago warehouse parties to high-tech Japanese superclubs. | | | It's a welcome trip back to an earlier time when genre distinctions mattered less than the vibe of a party and the power of an individual record to move a room. |
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http://www.armchair-dj.com/reviews/t/the_mayday_mix.asp
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| | City Pages - Inner City Blues |
| | May's penchant for bitching about how his music was perverted by the people it influenced--from the drug-addled ravers to evil U.K. industry types--has some justification. | | | May's career retrospective, The Innovator (Transmat), compiling tracks recorded in his late-'80s heyday, is an extraordinarily pompous record: "You won't have Derrick May to kick around anymore," it damn near bellows. | | | And then there's Detroit, where Derrick May, a young black man from one of the outlying suburbs with a love for his homeboy George Clinton and no one's homeboys Depeche Mode, is trying to give the world a new club music called... |
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http://citypages.com/databank/19/909/print4981.asp
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| | The Stranger - Music - Data Breaker - BEATSEEKING MISSIVES |
| | May is by far my favorite DJ on the planet. | | | The trio, who rose to prominence in the mid-'80s, aimed to conjure a new music blending Parliament-Funkadelic's soul with Kraftwerk's streamlined rhythms; in the process, they forged a spiritually potent and sonically galvanizing sound that served as a glittering spaceship out of the post-industrial wasteland their hometown had become in the '80s. | | | "I saw May DJ at one of the first warehouse parties I went to back in '92 and he floored me," recalls Horton. |
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http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=19674
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| | Movement |
| | May was integral to the three-CD Movement set, which encompasses previously unreleased tracks from Aril Brikha, Stacey Pullen and The Three Chairs' Marcellus Pittman. | | | The music's African-American innovators - Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson - established themselves locally as DJs and disseminated records early in their careers. | | | My plans consist of trying to save the world from bad music, and I'll do whatever that takes - that means putting on a festival or setting up an events management company, taking the festival around the world, or attempting to do soundtrack productions or make albums, or DJ on the DJ tours. |
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http://www.movementfestival.com/news_inthenews.html
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| | Techno music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | This influence is especially evident in the tracks on the first compilation, as well as in many of the other compositions and remixes they released between 1988 and 1992. | | | The music's producers, especially May and Saunderson, admit to having been fascinated by the Chicago club scene and being influenced by house in particular. | | | A spate of techno-influenced releases by new producers in 1991-92 resulted in a rapid fragmentation and divergence of techno from the house genre. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/t/te/techno_music.htm
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| | Forums - derrick may - the lofi real audio mixes thread |
| | since he is the man of the hour at the moment, I've uploaded a few derrick may mixes for ppl to download or listen to in real audio format - one from detroit's 'deep space radio' show 1995 and one from the robot party in amsterdam 1991.. | | | derrick may - the lofi real audio mixes thread | | | Forums - derrick may - the lofi real audio mixes thread |
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http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=3190
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| | Lunar Magazine Derrick May |
| | Though Detroit has been cranking out the tracks for decades, in the age of marketing Black music through half-naked women and illusions of wealth, Derrick says, "We're all about showing the aspect, as if to say that we are the modern day Jazz fusion, sort of...intellectual style of the music. | | | But it wasn't — see, something about Detroit, there's a level of appreciation for the music and more of what we do is open. | | | Sitting on the couch, shooting the breeze with a few leftover stragglers near the DJ booth, the man exuded super-cool. |
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http://www.lunarmagazine.com/features/may.php
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| | DERRICK MAY CHAT |
| | Derrick, what new producers have you been listening to a lot | | | Derrick: here's a question for you, do you listen to classical | | | Septic: Prodigy are the prodigy of a record company. |
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http://universalsource.co.uk/show_article.php?id=52&page=1
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| | Metro Times Detroit - Record Review - Derrick May - Innovator |
| | Innovator is techno pioneer Derrick May's new 2-CD release on his Transmat Records. | | | The music encased in the digi-grooves is ethereal, spacey -- best listened to while sporting your space helmet and gravity boots to fully feel the techno G-force. | | | Metro Times Detroit - Record Review - Derrick May - Innovator |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/metropolis/sonic/recordreview.asp?id=808
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| | De La Guarda (DJ Connection, featuring Derrick May) - PopMatters Concert Review |
| | Most of those DJs invited to play emerged from the nascent beginnings of a dance music culture that prided itself on community and earth-love. | | | De La Guarda was originally conceived and performed in a music club in Buenos Aries in 1993. | | | De La Guarda (DJ Connection, featuring Derrick May) - PopMatters Concert Review |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/concerts/d/de-la-guarda-030821.shtml
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| | TechnoTourist.org :: Follow the beat... |
| | While driving his Ferrari through Detroit Derrick tells a captivating story about the importance of Chicago for Detroit, about the Music Institute, going to Europe, his contract with R&S Records. | | | Thanks to a large dose of charisma he managed to forge many alliances in the early days of the Techno sound allowing the musical style to become a worldwide phenomenon. | | | I know you have heard this too many times, but should we keep hoping for a Derrick May album? |
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| | Derrick Milan and The KREW ~ Guestbook |
| | May you all have a BLESSED and WONDERFUL recording. | | | Hi Derrick, I enjoyed the concert but you and the krew did not sing enough. | | | May God bless you and the KREW real good and I cant wait to get back home and enjoy your ministry of music. |
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http://www.dmilankrew.org/guestbook/guestbook.html
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| | VH1.com : Derrick May : Artist Main |
| | Of the Belleville Three, the cadre of early Detroit producers who tested the limits of spirit within electronic dance music and changed the integrity of the form forever, Derrick May's reputation... | | | Keep tabs on Derrick May! Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Movie premiere - Watch a sneak peek of her movie. |
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http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/may_derrick/artist.jhtml
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| | TranZFusion - DJ Mixes, News, Reviews, Interviews, Digital Downloads & Vinyl/CD Store |
| | Derrick May: “No, I didn’t go to Paradise Garage, I went to places like the Music Box run by Ron Hardy and The Power Plant run by Frankie Knuckles, which were clubs in Chicago. | | | I was just a kid then, I didn’t make music or anything, but I was captivated by the atmosphere I found in those places. | | | Derrick May: “I don’t like women to be disconnected from music. |
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http://www.tranzfusion.net/articles/shownews.asp?newsid=3750
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| | RA: Resident Advisor - Derrick May in the Producer Playpen |
| | He is a techno pioneer and is seen as one of the world’s great dance music thinkers. | | | I will only release music that is true to form, I don't want to put out a record just because I can. | | | We have pinned down Derrick in his studio and now you have the opportunity to ask him what ever you want... |
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| | Derrick May |
| | Buy Music about Derrick May, enter our shop or search Music and Posters with our searchboxs | | | R&C = Reviews and comments about the Derrick May song, click the link to read messages about the song | | | No songs of Derrick May into our Pop archive |
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| | Tower Records - Innovator - Derrick May |
| | As INNOVATOR, a two-disc set compiling May's late '80s/early '90s classic singles, attests, these early tracks of beat-wise liquid electricity, like the Kraftwerk albums of the '70s, continue to stand head and shoulders above just about everything that followed. | | | Over syncopated piano motifs, the keyboard strings drive the track towards a thoughtful understated euphoria. | | | Alternative Press (5/02, p.104) - Included in AP's '10 Essential Pioneering Electronic Albums' - "...May wove tapestries of electronic sound as rhythmically brutal as they were achingly beautiful..." |
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| | The South End Newspaper - LOCAL/STATE - Three guys soar in the Motor City: ‘The Innovator,’ ‘The Originator’ and ... |
| | The Belleville Three promoted their work on independent record labels rather than major ones because “we don’t play the game.” Even today, their albums and CDs are only available in independent record stores. | | | He then assumed a position behind turntables to perform original songs for enthusiastic students, who impulsively held a spirited dance competition under the restored filigreed archways and elegantly appointed stairways. | | | You need to know how to work a computer and musical instruments.” |
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http://www.southend.wayne.edu/modules/news/print.php?storyid=667
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| | Sound judgment - Derrick May |
| | First, listen to Derrick May's "Innovator," a double disc that packages his groundbreaking "Rhythim is Rhythim" and "Mayday" works from the late '80s. | | | Get the Shockwave plug-in to get the most from our sounds | | | In 1988, as hip-hop put its ear on the bottom end -- on the bass and the heavy beats -- Detroit techno was busy working its magic on top and in 360 degrees, aiming for other planes with melody intact. |
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| | riverfronttimes.com Sound Checks Derrick May 2000-08-23 |
| | It sounds so patronizing to demand that the young 'uns respect the elders, but in this case those who attend the Liquid spin will be doing more than showing their respect: They be seeing The Man, and they be exposing themselves to some of the most transcendent and influential sounds ever created by computers. | | | Two of them have spun in St. Louis in the past year, so we've told the same story twice now, how three high-school buddies in Belleville, Mich. -- Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins and Derrick May -- forged the sound of techno and changed the course of music culture. | | | Of the Detroit Three, Derrick May's sound has arguably made the most impact on present-day techno; it's been said that without his earth-shattering "Strings of Life," made under his Rythim Is Rythim moniker, the British "Summer of Love" of 1989 wouldn't have happened. |
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http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2000-08-23/soundchecks.html
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| | A-WAVE.COM Mysterious Traveller - System 7 / Derrick May |
| | We present streaming real audio or downloadable MP3 extracts from the System 7 / Derrick May album MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER (catalogue number AAWCD008) Click here for technical info on MP3 downloads. | | | (2) Written and Produced by Derrick May, Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, published by Copyright Control / Chrysalis Music. | | | (3, 4) Written and Produced by Derrick May and Steve Hillage, published by Copyright Control / Chrysalis Music. |
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| | Governor Recognizes Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson with Award - Intuitive Music |
| | Although it may seem a bit late in many people's opinions, it's still a wonderful step in honoring the efforts of the people who pushed forward Detroit Techno music as we know it throughout the whole world. | | | Governor Recognizes Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson with Award - Intuitive Music | | | these guys, especially derrick have been the inspiration that fuled me to start making music can't wait to see when he is next in London |
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http://www.intuitivemusic.com/content/view/874/97
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| | RollingStone.com: Derrick May : Detroit Electronic Music Festival Announces Lineup : News |
| | However, with sets beginning at noon and ending by midnight (a stipulation of the Detroit Recreation Department), this may be one of the mainstream's best opportunities to see the much-ballyhooed electronic music revolution in action. | | | As Detroit Recreation Department representative Alberta Wilburn said, "I go back to Sam Cooke and beyond, and if this music can get my arthritic knees moving..." | | | RollingStone.com: Derrick May : Detroit Electronic Music Festival Announces Lineup : News |
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5925358
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| | eye - Under T for techno - 12.02.99 |
| | British and European dance labels were quick to offer them remix and production work, but not to sign or develop them as artists in their own right. | | | Additionally, live music will be performed by the Time:Space trio of Tony Drake, John Beltran, a.k.a. | | | The three friends more than made history with the raw, soulful, avant-garde music they produced in Detroit clubs from the mid-'80s -- they spawned a movement. |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.02.99/thebeat/extended.html
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| | Derrick May @ The Music Institute, Detroit 1990 - Old Skool Anthemz Message Board |
| | Derrick May @ The Music Institute, Detroit 1990 | | | Derrick May @ The Music Institute, Detroit 1990 - Old Skool Anthemz Message Board | | | I do know what that Jesus Loves The Acid is and being the nice chap I am I will tell yis even though I've been trying to find the bastard for years. |
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| | Derrick May awarded tonight |
| | To be honored: Detroit techno music master Derrick May, with the Hennessy Black Music Month Award, at 7 tonight at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. | | | JOHN SMYNTEK: Madonna back in saddle following spill |
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http://www.freep.com/entertainment/namesandfaces/namesb6_20010606.htm
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| | Strings of Life 2001 by Derrick May |
| | This is the 2001 white-label release of Derrick May's Detroit techno classic "Strings of Life." Remixed for the dancefloor, the signature strings from the original track are laid over a more upbeat, almost salsa-style, house beat | | | Tag all your own MP3 files with album covers easily with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! | | | Create Derrick May MP3s faster with MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus! |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Innovator - Derrick May at Epinions.com |
| | A collection of songs that I began listing to because of its history and significance to the foundations of techno music--more specific--detroit techno. | | | Listen to this as a chill-out CD or take it with you on a drive to a scenic area. | | | But they do not need a year, they are almost timeless, much like classical music. |
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http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-6A5B-2427802-397BC5D7-prod6
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| | Forums - derrick May comes to Sydney |
| | Both Rush and May are ambassadors of the true American techno vibe be it Detroit or Chicago.So Technogeekery go with whatcha like...cause really both these djs are masters of the groove and will leave most other djs in the dust. | | | However, this was outside what the original plan was. | | | Can't understand where the problem is in choosing between May and Rush (if you have to choose). |
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| | Derrick May Interview 16/05/04 - LeftLion Nottingham Articles |
| | This record made his self-owned TransMat label a reference point for a new and expanding scene of dance music and guaranteed the tune endless play in clubs and on TV. | | | May has since played a massive part in breaking other artists. | | | It had just turned midday in Detroit and while we were talking he was sitting in a big public park leafing through a set of photographs. |
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http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/189
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| | Metro Times Detroit - Musicians - : Derrick May |
| | Keepin' vinyl alive (2/27/01) - Counting Derrick May and Juan Atkins among his customers, Ron Murphy's Sound Enterprises is cutting records the good old-fashioned way for the cognoscenti. | | | Metro Times Detroit - Musicians - : Derrick May | | | Please attach events to this musicians listing by using our Self-Publishing interface online. |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/metropolis/sonic/artistprofile.asp?id=1959
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| | RA: Resident Advisor - Derrick May DJ Page |
| | Of the Belleville Three, the cadre of early Detroit producers who tested the limits of spirit within electronic dance music and changed the integrity of the form forever, Derrick May's reputation as an originator remained intact despite more than a decade of recording inactivity. | | | RA: Resident Advisor - Derrick May DJ Page | | | To rate artists on RA's DJ Pages you need to be a registered member. |
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| | Derrick May produces techno festival Detroit : DanceFrontDoor Dance Music |
| | Derrick May produces techno festival Detroit : DanceFrontDoor Dance Music | | | May, celebrated as one of techno's founding fathers, reached out to artists personally, asking them to perform at this years festival for uncertain finances. | | | Launched for the first time in 2000, the DEMF quickly became one of Detroit's leading cultural success stories, drawing techno fans by the hundreds of thousands for a massive three day celebration of Techno. |
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http://www.dancefrontdoor.co.uk/article919.html
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| | Tower Records - Mysterious Traveller - System 7/Derrick May |
| | Includes Rhythm Is Rhythm's Montage mix of 'Icon', here on CD in it's full glory for the first time ever. | | | Tower Records - Mysterious Traveller - System 7/Derrick May | | | 'Mysterious Traveller' brings together 10 tracks from System 7 & Derrick May's collaborative past. |
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