- Vinyl (1 Jun 1998)
- Number of Discs: 5
- Format: Box set
- Label: R & S
- ASIN: B00004WXWB
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Derrick May and his 2 friends developed a new form of electronic music, their influences were varied, German electronica and the new house sounds from Chicargo, this new music was Techno. I have never left a review on Amazon but the reviewer who says Derrick May doesn't know how to make techno really needs to look at the history of the music. You are clearly a fool! Derrick May is the man!!!
Format:Audio CD
exellent melodic techno from early nineties. takes a while to get into from a 2011 point of view. if you went to a rave between 89-92 some of these classics will be very familiar, one track uses a vocal sample from alison moyet. If you like galaxy 2 galaxy or orlando voorne's really earlly stuff you will be in heaven.
Format:Audio CD
This is pounding, joyful, melodic, electronic dance music created at a time when there was hardly anything else like it out there (Except for a few rare acid tracks and of course the work of Juan Atkins as Model 500, also on this series)...For me, what is just so f-ing cool about this music is the fact that it's just one dude in the 80s going crazy with battered old synths, sequencers and drum machines in his bedroom - not like today where you can almost hear what music programs are being used to create your average boring over-produced laptop house. It's just my opinion, but speaking as a producer/DJ, my laptop just doesn't feel as rock n' roll as the dusty old 808 equipment which these guys famously salvaged from pawn shops at affordable prices all those years ago - and I'm constantly trying to recreate the feel of this music using modern programming, which says A LOT.
But I digress - referring to some of the negative reviews on here - If you love your modern post-daft punk/deadmaus/commercial house, electro or minimal stuff and you've never had a history lesson in original 80s house, acid and techno music, then yes, on first listen you might spit your coffee over your apple mac in juvenile protest at the sound of quirky little synth lines and comparatively thin bass sounds to what's happening today. But if you would approach this with an open mind and put it into context, this is just sublime music, and it HAS aged well, because it still pumps the speakers and there is nothing out there that sounds like this today (other than the likes of retro acid-heads LONE or KiNK of course...)
Giving this awesome entry-level techno album a crappy review would be like an English student doing the same for Shakespeare. Sorry to sound like one of those old goats you find online (I'm not, this music is as new to me too, I'm in my twenties), but seriously guys, if you can't respect/get down with the founders, then simply G T F O - Because for you, dance music can only be a passing phase.
For those of us who want to learn and hear how dance music has evolved from the primordial soup of disco and early electronica, grab this up now. Classics such as 'Strings of Life', 'Nude Photo' and 'Drama' makes this double album worth it for the price alone, and trust me, from personal experience they still set the dance-floor on fire even today.
But I digress - referring to some of the negative reviews on here - If you love your modern post-daft punk/deadmaus/commercial house, electro or minimal stuff and you've never had a history lesson in original 80s house, acid and techno music, then yes, on first listen you might spit your coffee over your apple mac in juvenile protest at the sound of quirky little synth lines and comparatively thin bass sounds to what's happening today. But if you would approach this with an open mind and put it into context, this is just sublime music, and it HAS aged well, because it still pumps the speakers and there is nothing out there that sounds like this today (other than the likes of retro acid-heads LONE or KiNK of course...)
Giving this awesome entry-level techno album a crappy review would be like an English student doing the same for Shakespeare. Sorry to sound like one of those old goats you find online (I'm not, this music is as new to me too, I'm in my twenties), but seriously guys, if you can't respect/get down with the founders, then simply G T F O - Because for you, dance music can only be a passing phase.
For those of us who want to learn and hear how dance music has evolved from the primordial soup of disco and early electronica, grab this up now. Classics such as 'Strings of Life', 'Nude Photo' and 'Drama' makes this double album worth it for the price alone, and trust me, from personal experience they still set the dance-floor on fire even today.
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Not aged well.
May have sounded great back in the early days of techno during the 90's. Today it sounds rather simplistic and fairly repetitive, with predictable rhythms too! Read more
Published 22 months ago by Tec-know
Don't buy very very poor.....and boring
I don't normally leave a review but this cd is that bad I don't know why Derrick May released it, all tunes sound the same mundane, boring and crap to say the least. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2009 by Iain West
STELLAR MIND AND FINGERS IN MUSIC WITHIN THE MAESTRO!
Seeing performing alive to this maestro one only can realize that in this world there is people with a stellar mission in music as he himself has declared it. Read more
Published on 4 May 2008 by HELENE RAMOS
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