Derrick May
11 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages Audio, 21 April 1992
Detroit pioneer May discusses the state of Techno, and pays fulsome, eloquent tribute to the recently-deceased House legend Ron Hardy.
File format: mp3; file size: 18.5mb, interview length: 20' 09" sound quality: ***
Interview by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages Audio, 30 August 2004
The techno pioneer tells the whole epic story: his childhood in Detroit; meeting Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins; discovering Chicago house and seeing Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy DJ; making 'Nude Photo' and 'Strings of Life', and being recognised in the UK. Plus a whole lot more...
File format: mp3; file size: 153.4mb, interview length: 2h 39' 48" sound quality: ****
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Audio transcript of interview by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages, 21 April 1992
This is a transcription of Kris's audio interview with Derrick. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Retrospective by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 18 January 1992
AND SO, we hear you say, tell us more about the origins and development of this exciting music you call Techno. ...
Derrick May & Associates: Relics (Transmat/Buzz)
Review by Push, Melody Maker, 16 May 1992
MAY'S DAZE ...
Six Machines That Changed The Music World
Guide by Pat Blashill, Wired, 5 January 2002
EVER SINCE Sam Phillips stuffed some wads of paper into an amplifier, inadvertently creating the fuzzed-up, overdriven electric guitar sound on Ike Turner's 1951 rave-up ...
Godfather of Techno: Derrick May
Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 20 June 1992
These are weird times for techno. It dominates the chart and provides the soundtrack to thousands of blissed-out lives, but there are battles building up ...
Report by Simon Reynolds, Details, July 1992
Four years after its invention in a Detroit bedroom, techno is now dominating dance floors from London to L.A. Is it the next musical insurrection ...
Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 22 September 1990
FOR SOME reason, I'd half expected renowned Detroit techno demon Derrick May to be the quiet, retiring sort. ...
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 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 ...
Overview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 16 July 1988
TECHNO – a new Detroit sound vibration – is rocking the House of the future. John McCready checks out the credentials of the Third Wave ...
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