22/5/10 Derrick May & Giles Armstrong at Test

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junglecliff

booked for a 4 hour set..?
last time he arrived at half 1 to do a 4 hour set..!!

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junglecliff wrote: »

booked for a 4 hour set..?
last time he arrived at half 1 to do a 4 hour set..!!

and how long did he actually play for?

Fintomiginto

Yeah he played for about 2 hours max in the pod, was very dissapointed with that myself, it was a cracking 2 hours though!!!!

junglecliff

ye great DJ but what a diva...i said to to him but no response...!!

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junglecliff wrote: »

booked for a 4 hour set..?
last time he arrived at half 1 to do a 4 hour set..!!

Hehe, from what I heard, there was a mis-communication and May thought he was only on for 2 hours. Rest assured we have got this nailed down for a 4 hour set!

'Derrick May will be playing for 4 hours and will be a return to a style of DJing that he has long upheld in the tradition of all the great US DJs, but rarely gets the chance to produce in the restricted time constraints of the modern day clubbing environment.'

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Pioneering Detroit techno DJ and producer Derrick May was recently invited to do a special edition of the BBC Radio 6 Mix, featuring three new exclusive mixes which showcase his musical make up. May also talks about his work as a producer and DJ throughout the mix. Enjoy!

http://uploaded.to/file/gnd5lq

Tracklist:

Part 1: Hi Tek Soul Mix

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Mutant Clan - Untitled
Tony Thomas - Electric People
Cadenza 34 - Untitled
Los Hermanos - Birth Of 3000
UR Samuel L Session & Martin H - The Leap Part 1
Anja Schneider & Lee Van Dowski - Deseo
Unknown Artist - Untitled
Taho - Untitled
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

Part 2: Influences And All Time Favourites

Roy Hargrove presents the RH Factor - Hardgroove
Marvin Gaye - Troubleman
Reggie Dokes - Untitled
D'Angelo - Africa
Boards Of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon
Louis Haiman - Untitled
John Beltran - Untitled

Part 3: Mayday Club Mix

Jean Micheal Jarre - Oxygene
Mika Vaino - Untitled
Kapuchon and Benny Rodruguez - Reel
Frank Roger - Untitled
Submission - Women Beat Their Men (Cevin's Peak Hour Dub)
Johnny D - Pako Mana
The Believers - Who Dares To Believe In Me? (Original Mix)
Solomun &Jackmate - Carnivale - Phil E/Philpot Records
Reboot - Hello Sweden - Love Letters From Oslo
Arne Weinberg - Untitled
African Keys - Untitled
Karizma - Darkness
Karizma - Ode To Ancestor
Quentin Harris - Untitled
KC Flight - Voices
Quentin Harris - Untitled
Karizma - Ode To Ancestors
Bohannon - Let's Start The Dance (Special Remix)
Michel CLeis & Salvatore Freda - Sassicaia
TD02 - Hearts Of Gold Are Heavy To Hold
Lil Louis - French Kiss
Epic Johnwaynes - Libertango (Llorca's Art Of Tones Remix)
Compost Black Label Pied Plat - Ode To Ede
Greg Gow - The Bridge

filthypitcher

Yo Yo,

We welcome this month's namesake, Derrick May, to pop his Test cherry on Saturday the 22nd, who will be taking over the Test basement for a 4 hour set..

Part of the first wave of Detroit DJs and producers who introduced techno to the world, May classics like 'It is what It is', 'Nude Photo' and 'Strings of Life' were played in every dance club, from the Music Institute in Detroit to the Asylum, an institute in Dublin.

According to techno folklore, May took all his clothes off and cried for a day after making 'Strings of Life'.

This might explain why he hasn't been back in the studio since the early 90s, but there is no doubt his catalogue still provides inspiration for techno makers and DJs worldwide.

Support comes from ex-EC big man Giles Armstrong, who won't be crying, even though it's not his party. The daddy (G) of Dublin techno will provide the deep house sounds for Del Boy's classic Detroit set from the comfort of his Clondalkin Traktor.

Don't miss this chance to check two legends destroy the Twisted Pepper...

Rave to the grave!


A allocation of tickets are being sold for €10 at the Bodytonic web store:

http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/store/

http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/events/pogo/2010/feb/18/pogo-test-present-derrick-may-5hr-set-test-djs-mor/

The Basement
Test Present...
DERRICK MAY 4HR SET (Trasmat)
GILES ARMSTRONG (EC)

The Stage
DONAL DINEEN feat Live Percussion & Sax

The Mezz
S-PARTY w/ TAYOR
EOIN CREGAN
JOMA
CONOR L & DAZBOY

Doors 9pm

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6 Mix celebrates the May Day weekend with a brand new mix from techno pioneer Derrick May. Derrick - best known for his 1987 dance anthem Strings of Life under the name Rhythim Is Rhythim - has been an iconic name on the techno scene for over twenty years, DJing worldwide to a devoted fan base. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, May's work - alongside fellow DJs Juan Atkins and Inner City's Kevin Saunderson - has provided the catalyst for a number of producers worldwide. In his latest 6 Music show Derrick plays a selection of tunes which have influenced and inspired him including tracks by Brian Eno, Peven Everett and Model 500. There's also a brand new 'Mayday' club mix featuring hot new material from his label - Transmat Recordings - and a selection of tracks of Derrick's favourite album of 2010 so far; Gil Scott Heron's 'I'm New Here.'.
Music and featured items

1. Gil Scott-Heron Gil Scott-Heron — Where Did the Night Go
2. Luke Hess — The Way
3. Eno, Moebius & Roedelius — Foreign Affairs
4. Cybotron — Alley Of Your Mind
5. Model 500 — Nightdrive
6. Gil Scott-Heron Gil Scott-Heron — The Crutch
7. Seun Kuti — Fire Dance
8. Orlando Voorn — Power Of Beauty
9. Kenny Larkin — Unknown
10. Acoustic High End Research — Acid Child
11. Anthony Shakir — Arise
12. Matthias Meyer — Infinity
13. Kapuchon and Benny Rodrigues — Reel
14. Cesar Merveille — Chocopop Jazz
15. Ibex — 360 (Dub mix)
16. Glenn Underground — Afro
17. GummiHz — One Groove & Synth
18. Karizma — The Ganni
19. Robert Bosco — Club
20. Ben Klock — Viscoplastic
21. DVS1 — Searching
22. Karizma Feat.Taylor McFerrin — Georgia
23. Joakim Lone — Meeting Blue Ice
24. Orlando B — Melancholy
25. Jona — Secret
26. Autotune — Dirty
27. Gil Scott-Heron Gil Scott-Heron — Your Soul & Mine
28. [unknown] — Sexy & Strange
29. Tr — Naive Track
30. Viscoplastic — Unknown
31. [unknown] — White Label
32. Peven Everett — I Can't Believe I Loved Her
33. Salvatone Eneda — Bruschetta
34. DJ 3000 — Flamuri I Popullit
35. Untitled




Derrick May performs at Test in the Twisted Pepper on the 22/5/10.

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http://www.techno.de/mixmag/interviews/DerrickMay2.html



Derrick May - THE SECRET OF TECHNO

INTERVIEWING Derrick isn't like sitting down with a tape recorder and asking questions. He can be larger than most people ever live, screaming mock-abuse ("come on, ask me a question, you ****, you ****, you ****!"), deciding to engage in wrestling and spinning me round his apartment while we later sit at the computer and I write a love letter for him on E-mail to a girl in Japan. There are some pictures on the kitchen counter and he takes me through his recent photos. "That's Jay Denham, that's Carl, that's Honk Kong baby, that's Juan on the turntables, that's my ex-girlfriend with her kid, we used to live together for a few years, that's Marshall, Jeff, Farley, Keith, Armando and Felix The Housecat. A picture with Armando. You know he's got leukemia. Look at the date on that picture, just a year ago." There are pictures from Chile, where he DJed under a solar eclipse. "That's when we finally reached the peak of the mountain in Chile. Can you believe that. I've seen some things man. I've been blessed."

There are pictures from Amsterdam, where he lived for two years until he "got tired of some of the antics and petty bull****." And there's a picture of the statue The Spirit Of Detroit, a huge classical figure out of Michaelangelo holding a planet-sized golden orb. "I like the angle I took that from, it shows his struggle, his stamina. It shows how long he's been holding that damn thing." It could almost be a self-portrait. A picture of a producer who stopped making records after he got burned by an industry that wouldn't accept him as an 'artist'. And a picture of a producer who won't release a record unless he feels it's the best he could possibly make. Unless it's finished.
"A lot of people make music," he explains, "but not many of them are finishers. Most people don't really understand what the finishing technique is but it's when you honestly tell yourself that you believe you've done the best you can and this is the best it can be. I can't finish a track knowing that somewhere along the line I don't feel comfortable with it. I couldn't do that. That's one of the reasons why I don't release much music."

IT must be strange being Derrick May. No one will deny that he changed the music and started a movement. Yet the more we talk it becomes clear that the world he helped create isn't one he's particularly happy with. Perhaps because the record industry waylaid him, perhaps because he wouldn't make any of pop's compromises, the image of the black man in techno was buried and with it the possibility of a black, techno dancefloor. I guess he feels lonely out there. Especially as he's not interested in drugs while his audience roll around in a sea of ecstasy. He shows me a picture of some crashed-out chicks obviously still burning on their chemicals. "That's a bunch of stupid girls at a party in Belgium. I can't get with these kind of girls. I don't find the way they party reality. They're gonna **** themselves up and look like **** after a few years and they regret it. They really do regret it. It's like people actually think youth is eternal. A lot of people believe it. I don't understand it at all."

And this makes him angry? "What does it say about the music that we have to do so many drugs to simulate the feeling of euphoria? I don't need no damn drugs to put me out there. I've never taken drugs, never smoked a joint, never taken ecstasy, never snorted coke, never tried any drug in my life, not one time, never. I don't have anything against drugs. I just don't understand why people can't be themselves. What's wrong with that?"
What's wrong, he explains, is that the drugs embody or promote a level of slackness that he finds hard to tolerate. "Unfortunately most of these kids will never understand what the music was all about or what it could be about. And unfortunately the DJs - not all of them - who play the music should be ashamed of themselves and they should realise that they are not contributing anything to anything. And, yeah, people dance at their parties but could they actually take one of those records they're playing now and play it in five years time and somebody actually remember what it sounded like? And how many of the guys playing records now could actually say he loves the music that he plays with a sort of heart and soul so when he plays he's bleeding inside? He's feeling totally as if he just made love to the music?"

Because Derrick never needed drugs to get to the point where he found enough spirit and funk and science and power to change and recreate the music. And I think it hurts him to see what for him was a creative and spiritual act be continually reinterpreted as a chemical gesture. "We Hollywood DJs who are supposed to be the new leaders of the underground, we're pitiful man. We're pitiful. Only a few of us have any real heart, any real intention of making a chance or trying to make a difference. Only a few of us understand what it's all about. The rest of these guys popped up out of the water and they're taking the scene exactly nowhere. And the drug culture is right along with it because most of the kids out there dancing to this music don't understand why anybody else would like this music until they pop a pill and all of a sudden the music sounds funky. "So the kids take a pill to feel the funk and the DJ takes a pill to feel the funk. I don't take a pill to feel the funk. Carl don't take a pill to feel the funk. Glenn Underground don't take a pill to feel the funk. Derrick Carter might take a pill for fun, but not to feel the funk."

WHEN Derrick May DJs you don't know what you're dancing to. You can't say if the music is techno, samba, a train coming at you from a distance, beauty, funk, disco or Detroit because it's all these things. A soundtrack for the rollerdisco in the sky. The last time I heard him play in London he worked the set up to a point of passion then dropped 'Icon', one of his own tracks. It might have been four years old but it still sounded breathlessly perfect. Its strings came out of silence like ghosts having one last look at a world or lover they can no longer touch. The rhythms turned funk into poetry. People couldn't look at each other while it was playing. If you heard 'Icon' on a dancefloor you wouldn't know if you wanted to cry or die or dance. And I guess the question for us all, E-heads or not, is to wonder how Derrick caught such an intense fusion of spirit and funk without taking the pill. The answer goes back to when he met Kevin and Juan at school, when he was riding high on the naiveté and bursting passion of teenage youth. "We've known each other since childhood and basically Juan taught me how to be a DJ and our philosophy of music and what we should play and how we should approach people in our DJ sets. And that sort of mentality flowed over into my everyday life as far as every aspect of what I saw as normality I found completely disgusting," he says.

"After I'd met Juan I realised that there were so many things that people were not interested in and I couldn't understand why... But people just sort of live their lives according to somebody else's rules and never question it. We've all had family and friends that live like that and we don't criticise them, we try to enlighten them. But if they don't wanna know, they don't wanna know. But I was young and we were rebels, man. We were rebels." So that's the secret of techno. It didn't really have all that much to do with George Clinton or Kraftwerk. It was about Derrick May's head and the feelings he found on those long lost dancefloors that he couldn't separate from his regular life. It's like Kurt Cobain's teenage spirit, the pain of setting yourself impossibly high standards. But when he starts to make music again - he's producing a track now for the PlayStation game Ghost In The Shell and promising to make more records in the future - we'll find out if people still want to hear the spirit of Detroit sing. Or maybe he'll be roller-skating on his own, after all people always said that heaven might be a kind of lonely place.

TEN DERRICK MAY CLASSICS

* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'Strings of Life' (with Mike James and Carl Craig) (Transmat)
* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'Kaotic Harmony' (with Carl Craig) (Transmat)
* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'Icon'/'Montage' (Transmat)
* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'It It What It Is' (Transmat)
* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'Nude Photo' (with Thomas Barnett) (Transmat)
* R-Tyme - 'R-Theme' (with D. Wynn) (Transmat)
* Sueno Latino - 'Sueno Latino' (Derrick May Remix) (Ital. DFC)
* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'Beyond The Dance' (Transmat)
* Deee-Lite - 'Wild Times' (Mayday Remix) (Elektra)
* Rhythim Is Rhythim - 'The Beginning' (Transmat)

Test Promotions

Word,

Just five days to go before May plays at the Twisted Pepper. For those that can't wait check out the "High Tech Soul" documentary below. We'll be running competitions for the gig based on the what happens in this documentary. So watch closely!

Test Present...
DERRICK MAY 4HR SET (Trasmat)
GILES ARMSTRONG (EC)

The Stage
DONAL DINEEN feat Live Percussion & Sax

The Mezz
S-PARTY w/ TAYOR
EOIN CREGAN
JOMA
CONOR L & DAZBOY

Saturday May22th
Doors 9pm


High Tech Soul


Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvWiZqgdTkU

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHxMMxG1Gc

Part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--kYBfYfwxw

Part 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aje-9o7XBmQ

Part 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-zKxiRUA5c

Part 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eebuxl3xdJU

Part 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM6sEfHVLw0

Part 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-20exEBLL0

Part 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Lbrehyw6s

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Mayday, Mayday!

Right it's time to kick off the competition for this weekends gig with Derrick May for Test at the Twisted Pepper this Saturday!

To see The Innovator for free all you gotza do is answer this very easy question...

Out of the "The Belleville Three" who knocked Derrick May the f?ck out?

Hint: Derrick May did not knock himself out

Send your answers to testpromotions@gmail.com with "KnockOut" in the subject line.

Winners will be notified on Friday.

Tickets are still on sale at the Bodytonic store for €15.

Good Luck!

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Hey,

Comp is now closed, all winners have been notified!

Tickets available at - http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/events/pogo/2010/feb/18/pogo-test-present-derrick-may-5hr-set-test-djs-mor/

Set Times

Giles Armstrong 10.00 - 11.30
Derrick May 11.30 - Close

___________________________________________________________


The Basement - Test Present
DERRICK MAY 4HR SET (Trasmat)
GILES ARMSTRONG (EC)

The Stage
DONAL DINEEN feat Live Percussion & Sax

The Mezz
S-PARTY w/ TAYOR
EOIN CREGAN
JOMA
CONOR L & DAZBOY

Doors 9pm

http://testpromotions.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/testindustries

Test Promotions

Hey,

Comp is now closed, all winners have been notified!

Tickets available at -
http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/events/pogo/2010/feb/18/pogo-test-present-derrick-may-5hr-set-test-djs-mor/

Set Times

Giles Armstrong 10.00 - 11.30
Derrick May 11.30 - Close

___________________________________________________________


The Basement - Test Present
DERRICK MAY 4HR SET (Trasmat)
GILES ARMSTRONG (EC)

The Stage
DONAL DINEEN feat Live Percussion & Sax

The Mezz
S-PARTY w/ TAYOR
EOIN CREGAN
JOMA
CONOR L & DAZBOY

Doors 9pm

http://testpromotions.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/testindustries

VinylJunkie

Excellent night, very very sweaty though