--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok - so I looked I did a search on Derrick May at the Rolling Stone website > - this is what it says: > http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bio.asp?oid=3620&cf=3620 > > "A well-known DJ and producer who has worked with the likes of Fine Young > Cannibals and Depeche Mode, May is responsible for developing one of the > industry's most popular tools, the MW-3000 Mixing Workstation."
I remember when derrick May was promoting that Vestax mixer with the frequency isolators, it also had built in samples and some type of Midi control, the samples were not that bad. Think Musique Non Stop and Emu SP-12. I never knew he had a hand in the Fine Young Cannibals "she drivez meh craizeh oooohh... oooohh..." must have been remix work. > That's it - oh yeah, there is a really grainy photo of him as well. there > are no albums listed, just one other photo (and its a better one but it's > on another page), and the latest news is the DEMF line-up of 2000. Wow, > thanks Rolling Stone for recognizing him (and just about any other techno > artists as well). Quite a legacy.... I don't think they archive everything that's been published in their magazine from the last decade or so on their web site. Innovator was listed as one of the top 100 albums of the 90's, (or was it electronica albums of the 90's?) if it wasn't R.S. it might have been one of the other magazines like Spin. Carl Carig actually has some album reviews archived on the Rolling Stone web site. > Meanwhile - type in Moby and you get: who care's about Moby? I never understood 313ers fascination with Moby. > So, you tell me - is Derrick May recognized by Rolling Stone? I think from a historical "techno" or "dance music" perspective he will. When I hear the album Innovator it brings memories of 1989: Jeanette Thomas "Shake Your Body", Steve Hurley "Jack Your Body", Inner City "Big Fun". Richie Hawtin is really responsible for making techno more popular in the US with Technarchy in 1990 that jump started the early 90's techno craze and got more of the laternative/ Industrial heads into the music. > dance music may be mainstream but Detroit techno and Detroit techno artists > are not. I no longer call the music coming out of Detroit "techno" it's 313 music. Detroit techno is ancient history. > If you look on Billboard.com's "Hot Dance Music/Club Play" you get: > > 1. Becky Baeling > 2. t.A.T.u. > 3. Deborah Cox > 4. The Roc Project feat. Tina Arena > 5. Monica > 6. Paul Van Dyk > 7. Groove Armada feat. Sunshine Anderson > 8. Whitney Houston > 9. Jennifer Lopez > 10. Jewel > 11. Puretone > 12. Murk > 13. Justin Timberlake > 14. Martin feat. Loleatta > 15. Deborah Cooper > 16. Laura Pausini > 17. Jung feat. Hope > 18. BT > 19. Daniel Bedingfield > 20. Madonna As a general rule you are not going to see independent label/ underground electronic music listed on the Billboard dance charts. It's generally music that is signed to major labels. I did see Cajmere on Relief in the Top 20 three or four months ago. > by the way - I don't have an HMV or Virgin record store but we do have Sam > Goody and they don't stock any CDs by any Detroit techno artists. They do > have a lot of trance and Ibiza CDs. > > > MEK I guess you live in a smaller market. I've seen most of the 313 mixed CD's at Virgin and HMV which have a better selection of dance music thatn the smaller chains. Speaking of chains, I used to see a lot of the Chain Reaction, Basic Channel comps back in the late 90's and many of the Detroit techno albums. Last time I was in NYC I bought the Like A Tim albums on Geist and the Trax 3XCD compilation at Virgin. =====
