I remember when juan played at demf and he trainwrecked so bad
that it
started hailing out.
Yeah I remember that, the second DEMF, right after Inner City and
right
before Derrick was meant to come on. I was gutted we missed Derrick
that
night, but yeah Juan was awful. I remember he started out playing a
lot of
old electro that was quite promising, but then ended up dropping
stuff like
Red Alert by Basement Jaxx that I just didnt feel was a fitting
ending to
such a great weekend.
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Subject: RE: (313) RE: Derrick May
I remember when juan played at demf and he trainwrecked so bad that it
started hailing out.
---- Robert Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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; [email protected]
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; [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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]; [email protected]
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-----
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Sent: 20 February 2006 10:47
To: [email protected]
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"
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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: [email protected]
Subject: Re: (313) RE: Derrick May
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 February 2006 15:37
To: [email protected]
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.
Tristan
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