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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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