Derrick May

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Techno documentary God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines is nearly here…

ETTH Team 10 June 2022

This weekend, a documentary all about the origins of Detroit techno will finally be unveiled. Premiering at the Pitchfork/Tribeca Film Festival in New York tomorrow, God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines has been no...

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Another Detroit techno festival – but guess who’s missing?

ETTH Team 9 June 2022

The dance music scene in Detroit is something we write about a fair bit here at Ears To The House. Partly because it’s a place where you can get away with almost anything, so...

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Carter or May? The mystery of which Derrick is appearing at Futur Festival…

ETTH Team 8 June 2022

Ears To The House has been at the forefront of efforts to get the answer to the question – why wasn’t Derrick May booked to play at Movement in Detroit this year? Because the...

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So why WEREN’T you playing at Movement, Derrick?

ETTH Team 7 June 2022

Ahead of the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit, which concluded last Monday, music journalists everywhere were busy rehashing tired old claims about the Belleville Three – whilst also simultaneously failing to ask exactly...

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The Belleville Three myth lives on at Resident Advisor…

ETTH Team 3 June 2022

Those of you who have been paying attention will already know that the Belleville Three cover story – peddled without question by the useless dance music press for decades – is largely a myth....

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Planet E is 30 – but why has Carl Craig not had his mentor on?

ETTH Team 31 May 2022

If you had a look in the dance music world at what labels were around in the 1990s, you’ll quickly notice almost all of them have long disappeared. If industry politics didn’t take them...

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Kevin Saunderson poses with Derrick May – then Louie Vega doesn’t…

ETTH Team 31 May 2022

It’s been a busy few days for Derrick May – perhaps it’s just as well, as he doesn’t have many of them anymore. Since Saturday, he’s been hanging around at the Movement Electronic Music...

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Derrick May is now plugging Andres’s music…

ETTH Team 30 May 2022

The Movement Electronic Music Festival is concluding today in Detroit. The curiously rising star that is Ash Lauryn have performed, alongside the likes of Jeff Mills, Carl Craig and names like Kaskade – whose...

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As Movement begins in Detroit today, the one question nobody will ask…

ETTH Team 28 May 2022

The Movement Electronic Music Festival, as it’s officially known these days, begins in Detroit later today. This year’s lineup includes Carl Craig, rising star Ash Lauryn, Jeff Mills, Juan Atkins and er, an awful...

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Derrick May’s latest excuse for having no gigs? The internet…

ETTH Team 26 May 2022

Believe it or not, but there was a time when Detroit based DJ and producer Derrick May was a truly unstoppable force of nature. His diary was filled with hundreds of gigs every single...

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Are the Belleville Three (minus one) actually happy to see the back of Derrick May?

ETTH Team 31 January 2022

Over the past few days, I’ve written a bit about the end of the Belleville Three. The myth, which was created by journalist Neil Rushton in the 1980s, speaks a fabled tale of three...

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FAC51 The Haçienda have an exclusive at their Good Friday party in London – and they don’t even know it!

ETTH Team 30 January 2022

The myth of the Belleville Three had a good life, but now it’s time for the final nail in its coffin to be well and truly hammered down. With Derrick May now having effectively...

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Was his New Year’s resolution to learn absolutely nothing? Disgraced Derrick May is up to his sleazy old tricks again as DJ accuses him of “creeping”…

ETTH Team 25 January 2022

One man who’s been awfully quiet so far this year is the normally very loud Derrick May. The Detroit DJ, in times gone by, was his home city’s most cacophonous voice – but a...

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Hankies at the ready! As dance music’s banishment of Derrick May continues, the man himself has been complaining he’ll never get to achieve one of his life goals…

ETTH Team 22 January 2022

Spare a thought – the smallest one you can possibly conjure up, ideally – on this Saturday evening for Derrick May. Thanks to all those pesky women who’ve made all kinds of very unpleasant...

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Do the Belleville Three need to recruit a new member to keep up the myth? The question as a Detroit source witheringly compares Derrick May to South Park character Kenny McCormick…

ETTH Team 18 January 2022

For the first few years of its run, the South Park character Kenny McCormick would die in every episode – yet he would return in the next episode alive and well. No explanation was...

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He’s still backing the loser! As Defected let Carl Craig loose on their weekly radio show, he plays not one, but TWO records from Derrick May in a petulant show of defiance…

ETTH Team 16 January 2022

You might have noticed this blog hasn’t published anything on Derrick May for the past few weeks. That’s mostly because there’s been nothing new to report. Sources on Detroit have been sending me rumours...