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Simon Witter, NME, 15 August 1987

2008 NOTE: One year after the big bang of house hype, I was back in Chicago to investigate the latest developments – among them Acid Trax and Deep House. Maybe most significantly, this overview contains the first ever interview with Derrick May, conducted before the term 'Techno' had been coined to describe the Detroit sound (though he does use the word).

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