So you don't ever recall standing about for 30 minutes waiting for a beat ;-)
That was Juan -----Original Message----- From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 February 2006 09:56 To: Mark Pays; Hardie, Nick; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May I was there - don't remember Atkins playing there though - I've always thought I'd never heard him DJ - obviously he must have been very unmemorable! Twas a great night - The Advent were due to play too, but because the sh*tty venue double booked with another event, the night was condensed from 2 to 1 room and The Advent lost their slot. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Pays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2006 14:44 To: Hardie, Nick; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May Yeah that's right. I'd forgotten about that bit. Weren't the two clubs separated by a bit of scaffolding and some large curtains? Not exactly sound proofing! Those were the days. -----Original Message----- From: Hardie, Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2006 14:23 To: Mark Pays; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May And if memory serves me right, it was made all the more impressive by having to play over some awful UK garage coming from the club next door. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Pays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2006 13:57 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May I've only seen DM play once but it was a belter. It showed me what it means to be a truly professional DJ. I've often thought of sharing it with the list. The evening went something like this..... It was an event called Hybrid sometime around '96 in a London warehouse type venue just south of the river. The line-up was mouth watering - Juan Atkins, Joey Beltram and Derrick May in that order. It started Badly. After the warm-up came Juan. He played a bad set that got worse. He looked like he'd rather be anywhere but behind the decks. He started getting booed. So he responded by playing 25 minutes of beatless ambient nonsense mixed badly with a beatless mix of strings of life. Someone started throwing empty plastic water bottles at the stage and off he went. Rubbish. Started to think I'd wasted my money. On came Beltram. As ever, he started with Energy Flash and then dropped a classic set of his own stuff interlaced with plenty of dark Chicago jacking grooves and a load of the Robert Armani catalogue. The place came to life. Then the power went. The music stopped for about an hour. Everyone waited it out though. When the power came back DM came on. I can only think that DM felt he had to make up for what went before. Juan was an embarrassment, while Joey was great, he was stopped in his tracks by the power cut. DM dropped an absolutely classic set of house and techno. His mixing was lightning fast, often using the headphones for just a few seconds before dropping the next track. The crowd responded brilliantly. He worked the eq, and cut and scratched superbly. He went way, way, over time until the bouncers came to the stage and started shouting at him to stop. He wasn't having any of it so this big bouncer guy just starts shaking the scaffold that May is standing on and the record starts jumping all over the place. May looks at the guy and shakes his head then picks the up the deck and holds it out in his palm right above the bouncer and plays the tune again. This time the shaking doesn't make the record jump. May is grinning his head off, the crowd are cheering like mad and the bouncer looks like he's going to explode. We got a few more minutes of his last track before they turned off the power to make him stop! He then hung around for 30 mins afterwards chatting with stragglers and getting well deserved thanks and compliments from all. It was one of the best sets I've seen, but most impressive was the work rate, passion and commitment. He could have done his two hours and left, but instead he turned a bad night into one of the most memorable and that makes him a great DJ in my eyes. It was a long time ago now, but I've heard plenty of people with similar stories. I really must see him play again sometime.... -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 February 2006 11:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May Its like Tristan and Rob said, Space base is about disco /funk and your influences, its not LOST and DM being booked to play was getting me all excited and he came and played techno & house....:O/ At least when Mills played he get in the spirit of it and plays loads of disco, mixed very badly I must point out. He has the problem of thinking he is playing techno and can't leave the records alone, and tries to mix for to long with un beat synced records ha-ha. I saw DM Play a really good house/disco set years ago at the original Plastic People when it was on Oxford Street (central London) on a Thur. night and boy he killed it and that's what I was hoping we were going to get, but we didn't. That was about 10 years ago though. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 February 2006 10:47 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May I couldn't disagree more ! I find that his Spacebase sets are usually quite messy. His selections are O.K but the level of DJing usually moves up a notch when the guest comes on. I loved that Mills Spacebase set too! I do agree on this though ... ... Bring on the weekly sessions Joy! :o) "Paul Kendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <313@hyperreal.org> .com> cc: Fax to: 20/02/06 09:06 Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May Its all about Bicknell for me at Space base, because his techno sets are lacking skills to say the least, but when he puts a disco/funk set together he really comes alive... I've missed 2 space bases but from the ones I've been to Bicknell out played all the other djs- that's mills , may and Slater.. Bring on the weekly sessions -----Original Message----- From: Tristan Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2006 15:46 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) RE: Derrick May > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 February 2006 15:37 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) RE: Derrick May > > On 2/18/06, Robert Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't enjoy May's set at all cos I was expecting disco and got > > techno. If I'd been prepared for a techno set, I would have > probably > > loved it > > were you expecting disco from derrick may? any reason? i dont think > ive ever heard of him playing much disco, or was this a special event? It was a Lost Spacebass, which they do every so often at Plastic People - soon to be weekly on Fridays. It started out with Jeff Mills, Luke Slater and Steve Bicknell as a sorta-Xmas party at the Bridge & Tunnel for £5. They all played funk, disco and house. It was dope. Since then they've done it with a lot of their regular guests - basically Mills and the Belleville Three. The idea is that the guests will all play great stuff from the past, be it house, techno, funk, soul, disco - whatever. Derrick May basically turned out a modern house set, which while good in it's own right didn't really fit the bill. It will be interesting to see how the weekly turns out and who the guests are. 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