Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Psycatron "Is What It Is" single "Is What It Is" marks the culmination of what has been a remarkable year for Psycatron. The Irish duo, made up of BBC Radio DJ and producer Paul Hamill and producer Dave Lievense have seized taste-makers' attention over the last 12 months with a string of exceptional releases including "Deeper Shades of Black" (Planet E) and "Directions...
forallouryesterdays blog spot (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Order by: Alphabetical | Most Recent 1 2 3 4 5 ... 16 Next 100% HomeGrown with Ras Kwame Sun, 01 Nov 2009 100% UK music - the home of new talent is here. Show 4 more 1Xtra Breakfast Show With Trevor Nelson & Gemma Serena Williams joins Trevor Nelson & Gemma Live Serena Williams is Trevor and Gemma's special guest. 1Xtra Breakfast Show With Trevor Nelson & Gemma Joss Stone Joins Trevor &...
Cacophonous Bling (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Last Saturday BBC 6 digital radio broadcast a two hour Derrick May special. Here's a blurb from the BBC website. Pioneering DJ Derrick May returns to 6 Mix with three brand new exclusive DJ sets, showcasing tunes from his musical past, present and future Derrick - best known for his 1987 dance anthem Strings of Life under the name Rhythm Is Rhythm - has been an iconic name on the techno scene for over...
Awdio Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The now legendary Belgian club Café d’Anvers, has become as famous as chocolate and chips since it opened its doors in a medieval church setting, located in the red light district of Antwerp in 1989. Twenty years on they can be proud of what they have brought to the city and to European clubbing, inviting [...] Related posts: Friday 6 May: Kevin Saunderson! Smartbar Chicago, Local Time:...
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
INCOGDO (CARL CRAIG & DERRICK MAY) Simply Just A Ventage SPIRITUAL RECORDS TECHNO / HOUSE 12" An absolute treat for all the Detroit disco freaks from Derrick May and Carl Craig! Originally released in 1992 on Spiritual Records, 'Simply Just A Ventage' features the two legends looping, filtering and slicing the f*ck out of John Rocca's 'I Want To Be Real (Farley's Hothouse Piano Mix)',, while...
The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Still talking about prog – sort of – three weeks in. System 7, successor, in a sense, to 1970s progressive band Gong, with both Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy of the latter both members. And perhaps one of the very very few examples of a successful crossover from 70s rock to dance and electronica (I [...]
DJ Orion - the diary (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Some music & design related links & ideas from the past days. Miika Saksi (yeah, the guy who made the first Love poster – and much more) – has opened his blog. Cool stuff, check it out. Derrick May, one of the most famous vinyl supporters has given the much hyped new Transmat release exclusively to Beatport. [...]
BounceFM (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
House music documentary. From the forthcoming film, THEY CALL IT ACID. The story of Acid House - the birth of Rave. The culture the Government failed to crush! Featuring over 60 interviews including the world's top DJs and rare archive film from the first illegal Acid House parties. Music featured in this trailer: Wild Times by De-lite, Remix by Derrick May. Produced by Rene Gelston, Paul Waller,...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
A funny thing about Derrick May interviews: for a man obsessed with the future, he finds himself spending a lot of time talking about the past. Perhaps understandably, as after his iconic Transmat label ground to an unsatisfying halt, there was little to talk about except the Belleville Three. In the past year, something changed. The self-styled superhero has decided to relaunch the label and –...
Dissensus (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Suspect it is but Carl Craig and Derrick May are playing there together one night...
Buc 'Em (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Derrick Ward May Not Travel Derrick Ward may not travel to Washington (This story is a day old. I could not find an update) as he is dealing with a sore knee. Currently all of the Bucs RB's are making the injury list as either questionable or probable: Ward (Knee) Q, Williams (Knee) P, Graham (Hamstring) P and Smith (Quad) P.
iBeats.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
‘The Man With The Case’ is a culmination of two decades of experience from Swedish old school techno legend Samuel L. Session. The sound of the past often collides with current movements but never has it sounded so fresh than from Samuel L. Session AKA SLS. His skills and knowledge from the evolving electronic music scene create a stark and original album project to remind us what the...
bass music (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Kevin Saunderson looking P-I-M-P. Those of you who keep up with the Twitter, er, o-sphere, might be aware of this already, but Geeneus has just put up a "refix" of Inner City's classic track "Good Life". It's on his myspace player - go and check it out . A UK Funky refix of such a legendary track has the potential to be all kinds of wrong, but luckily this one works - I think it's...
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The prolificacy of Detroit techno's godfathers is marvelous–a stream of focused, beleaguering machine music that hasn't ebbed since the genre was invented thirty years ago. Proof: Juan Atkins and Carl Craig have Discogs pages that resemble encyclopedia indexes, and Octave One , who debuted alongside Craig on 1990's Techno 2: The New Generation compilation, have released over a hundred records...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The legendary house and techno pioneer deserves a proper career retrospective, but this isn't it. Take any contemporary music labeled "house" or "techno", and you can trace a line from it back to Kevin Saunderson. As part of the duo Inner City and with Derrick May and Juan Atkins, Saunderson was a creator of the classic Detroit Techno sound. This two-disc set attempts to pay homage...
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