000-derrick_may-innovator-2cd-remastered-2008-just.nfo
Artist.......: Derrick May
Album........: Innovator
Label........: Transmat Records
Genre........: Techno
Catnr........: TMT2RM
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Aug-26-2008
str.date.....: Jun-02-2008
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
Disc1
01. Strings of the Strings of Life 09:47
02. Another Kaos Beyond Kaos 00:50
03. Freestyle 04:26
04. A Rest/beyond Kaos 01:31
05. The Dance 07:13
06. Spaced Out 00:58
07. Daymares, it is What it is 06:38
08. Some More Spaced Out 01:07
09. Beyond the Dance - the Cult Mix 06:53
10. Feel Surrreal Ends the Feel Surreal 01:00
11. R-Theme 06:03
12. Emanon Begins 02:43
13. Sinister 06:38
14. The End 03:54
Disc2
01. To Be or Not to Be 06:54
02. Icon (Montage Mix) 05:50
03. Phantom 01:43
04. Kaotic Harmony 06:35
05. Phantom Lurks 01:13
06. Salsa Life 05:29
07. Nude Photo 05:42
08. The Beginning 05:29
09. A Relic Long Ago 01:02
10. Drama 04:26
11. Emanon Ends 01:19
12. Winter on the Blvd 06:46
13. Strings of Life 06:03
14. Dreams of Dreamers 04:01
15. Wiggin - Juan's Mix 06:11
Runtime 128:24 min
Size 182,8 MB
Release Notes:
Though fans and DJs had been waiting for his
elusive next single for over five years, don't
think of Innovator as a summation of Derrick May's
production career. It's far too untidy to be the
last word on this Detroit pioneer, shuttling from
full track to alternate mix to production fragment,
and gathering scattered versions like "Another Kaos
Beyond Kaos," "Feel Surreal Begins," "A Relix Mix,"
and "Another Relic From the Relics." The first disc
gathers several minute-long bits of tracks,
occasionally vicious edits of an important track
like "It Is What It Is." Yes, it's frustrating but,
considering this is the only compilation available,
listeners should be glad for anything they can get
their hands on. Innovator begins, as it should,
with "Strings of Life," the unapologetically
emotional piano-and-synth-strings anthem that
capped many a British warehouse party and rave
during its 1988-1989 heyday. Though the mix here
("Strings of the Strings of Life") isn't quite the
most famous one -- it's nearly beatless, and seems
to be just on the verge of kicking in for all eight
minutes -- the "original mix" is fortunately
appended near the end of the second disc. Most of
May's productions are tough, defiant rhythm tracks,
raw but sturdy and put together better than any of
his peers. There's much more bubbling below the
surface than a casual listen betrays, and several
tracks ("A Little Spaced Out," "Beyond the Dance,"
"Drama") are evocative productions from a time when
little more was required of a dance track than a
few skeletal beats, a bassline, and one or two
samples. Best of all, several touchstones from the
second disc -- "Salsa Life," "Nude Photo," and the
Juan Atkins mix of "Wiggin'" -- are practically
untouched. Not quite a best-of, and definitely not
a new production album, Innovator is the work of a
producer who, while perhaps not releasing many
tracks anymore, is constantly at work on his
legacy.
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