Derrick May = IDM? Such bullshit.
When May started doing his thing in the late eighties there was no such
thing as fucking IDM. It was techno, and people jacked hard to it at
parties, and still do. It is still techno, which is attitude just as much a
musical genre. Just because it is superb music and not hardcore gabba does
not now make it "intelligent".
You are taking the music out of context and placing it in a late nineties
setting ... invalid parameter.
Someone please back me up on this!!
quoted 14 lines How can we not mention Derrick May?
> > How can we not mention Derrick May?
> > He may be the originator of Detroit techno but it's definitely
>intelligent
> >
> > dance music, if not IDM in the Autechre/AFX sense of the term.
> > I'd check the "Innovator" package to start.
> > Carl Craig put it best when he said something like it was a revolution
> > when
> > Kraftwerk started, it was a revolution when Juan Atkins did "Night
>Drive",
> >
> > but when Derrick did "Strings of Life" it was just the future.
> >
> > B.
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