"Techno - The New Dance Sound Of Detroit" (Catalogue No: DIX G 75 - http://www.discogs.com/release/57919) came out in 1988 on Ten Records and not 1989.
Just in case anyone is looking for it. :) Dscaper ---------- Aeonflux Radio - http://www.aeonflux.co.uk "A man who know's what he knows, and knows what he doesn't know, is the sign of a man who knows." > -----Original Message----- > From: Cyclone Wehner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 December 2002 14:39 > To: 313 Detroit > Subject: (313) System 7/May Connection > > > This is so weird. I have e-mailed this 10 times and it hasn't > come through. > So I changed the header! > > > Not sure about how May got involved > > Answer: > > Initially Hillage hit it off with Derrick May, one of techno's triumvirate > of godfathers, and he was later introduced to May's protege, Carl Craig, > among others from the Motor City. "It goes back to our roots - we were > involved in this European electro-rock movement, but also we were quite > interested in certain leftfield aspects of fusion - like Weather Report, > Miles Davis and also Funkadelic and George Clinton, who of course > comes from > Detroit. Bernie Worrell, the keyboard player of Funkadelic, was the first > synthesiser player in Detroit. He did definitely influence people > like Juan > Atkins and Derrick May. So we had a lot of common influences. > When I started > System 7 our first record was on Ten Records - this is the dance arm of > Virgin Records at the time and of course this is the label that > also put out > the first-ever techno compilation in 1989. Obviously I'd heard this and I > was really excited by it and asked the record company if they > could arrange > a meeting with Derrick May, and he was keen as well, and we met > him in 1990. > We've known him for, like, 10 years."
