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is rhythim is rhythim's the beginning the best techno song ever? i'm still pretty new to techno, but i have listened to a lot of it and this really stands out as the most complex, mesmerizing, kinetic, and soulful song i've heard. that synthesizer riff is the catchiest thing ever but i have a really hard time remembering it afterwards.

i'll probably feel different next week when i hear something else but this is how i feel.

― lfam, Saturday, 31 March 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

9 hours later, i still feel the same

― lfam, Sunday, 1 April 2007 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

and drama is just as good! this truly was and is some next-level shit

― lfam, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

kind of explains why he never made anything else...do you have relics?

― tricky, Sunday, 1 April 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

i have http://www.discogs.com/release/4732, which is remixes from relics. it's pretty awesome, especially... all of it. some of the relics i've heard weren't on the same level.

― lfam, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

he needs to quash his superego to shut up and let him release new stuff and try not to compare it to what he's already done. imagine if carl craig had quit after releasing the psyche/bfc records? i mean, i don't think he ever topped those, but why even compare if his later stuff is so awesomely awesome, too?

still, i love the rhythim is rhythim songs so much that i would be satisfied if he never released again.

― lfam, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

his spirit was crushed by the mass of people standing around watching him dj instead of dancing

― lfam, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

You might also check Neuropolitique, aka Matt Cogger from the UK who went to work at May's studio in the early nineties. Free Irdial downloads :
http://www.archive.org/details/ird052
http://www.archive.org/details/ird026
http://www.archive.org/details/ird042
http://www.archive.org/details/ird049

― blunt, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

i think relics is my favorite techno comp.

― tricky, Monday, 2 April 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

freestyle
spaced out
wiggin
feal surreal by a tongue and d groove (sounds like may... atkins and may?)

these songs make the miles davis comparisons sound more sensible. they aren't pushing as far as the beginning or whatever but they are very jazzy and "cool".

― lfam, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

i thought i posted in this thread about how i half agree with this discogs post:

digimaton - 25-Feb-07 07:42 PM
'The Beginning' was, unfortunately, the last of the May inovations, but what a track, I honestly don't think any Detroit producer has pushed further since, even after all these years, it kind of marked the end of an era for me, things started getting predicatable after this. People need to appreciate how fucking whacked out that tune was on release, relative to other techno at the time it was from another dimension - a lot guys couldn't even figure out how to get into it from another record, "uhh, exactly where is the downbeat?"

i definitely think it marks the end of derrick being able to be completely new and out there with every release (if he ever even was). and in salsa life, he even begins to recycle old musical ideas (even though it's still awesome). is it where techno started referring back to itself instead of coming up with crazy future ideas every time around? was detroit ever actually that innovative?

― lfam, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Derrick May is (as Juan Atkins famously put it) a thoroughbred who doesn't like to run...

― henry s, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

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