Derrick May (Mayday Mix)
Derrick May (Mayday Mix) New Years Eve 1988
Sometime in 1988
I happened to press record back in 1988 on New Years Eve to catch this “MayDay Mix” by Derrick May as 98 WJLB (Detroit Radio) counted down to the new year 1989. I really loved recording these MayDay mixes because there were always traxx that were not in stores or If I happened to have the record I would hear a different version of the song than the one on the record. But the craziest thing about the MayDay mixes is the reel to reel that you can hear sometimes spinning backward through the mix. This is classic Detroit I bet no one has this recording ha-ha!!! I’m sure I have a lot more of them I can dig up as well. This is a good history lesson for those pretending to know about the roots of Detroit Dance Music!
How is he reversing the track and then hitting the start of the measure forwards? two copies of the same record and one going in reverse? or is this being played through a mirage or some other sampler?
LOL!!! That’s a gook question. What you hear is reel or reels spinning backwards in the mix because some songs were actually played off reel to reel before they were pressed to vinyl.
DJ assault to the rescue! I have always wondered how these acid house DJs did this stuff. That makes sense. I guess the latin rascals were using a similar technique up in new york around the same time.
Maybe so? I’m glad I could help!
Wow, quite a few Transmat classics in the mix. Thanks for sharing this one, Assault. I love all those old Transmat records. I’ve heard Wizard mixes before, but this is the first time I’ve heard an old-school Derrick May mix. I imagine that this is what the Music Institute might have sounded like. What I wouldn’t give to go back in time and check out that club for a night! I wonder if Derrick and those guys knew that they were making history back then.
Yes I wish dance tracks people made now a days were this hot and original.
Those mixes were done on a Tascam 4track machine if I can recall. The backwards songs were edited on a Quarter inch Reel to Reel I believe and put to cassette or to Reel. Sometimes he would bring the Reel to the Music Institute and mix his Edit’s live with the turntables(Incredible)! It’s a Trick he learned from the Master(Ron Hardy) from the Music Box in Chicago. I have some early cassettes with Big Fun Edit’s and a lot of his edit’s he was doing at the time…that’s kinda his Signature when he does a remix…backwards drum sections.
I knew it sounds like reels spinning backwards. But it seems like some songs he didn’t play very long? Like he didn’t really want you to hear much of it.
Hi Craig,
Many thanks for sharnig us these classics.
I just can’t stop to listen them.
I’ve got some simmilar mixes made in the early 90′s by hungarian djs and it’s really intersting how sounds changed whitin few years till it reached Hungary.
DO NOT STOP to upload more and more mixtapes!
anyway: have you got an original TB303?
Yes I have much hotter mixes to come. Also me and a few people I know have the original TB-303.
Good for you.
Still wriggling it?
Thanks for the tapes! Any chance of a DL on some of these mixes.
I’ll think about it lol!!!
Man,
This is the mix this is the one that shuts the rest down!!
What is the track with the girl wispering heavy!!!!
This Mix needs attention – Mix needs a tracklist!
Peace
Hey I wish I knew the names of most of the tracks on here. But I have no idea I was around 13 when I recorded it lol.
Man you need to soundcloud this mix so nuff peeps get a listen and can in ject some knowledge!!
Peace
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Gettin’ a tracklist started…
30:20 – Rhythim is Rhythim – It is what it is
32:00 – Bam Bam – Wheres your child
43:05 – Suburban Knight – Art of Stalking
44:50 – K-Alexi Shelby – Vertigo
47:44 – Kaay Alexi – My Medusa <–Last Track
34 minutes in Zsa Zsa Laboum – Something Scary.
thank you may<3
Love this example of how an energetic mix should be! Also the number of Italo records mixed with acid and techno is very nice (like the Klein & MBO song around 21.30). Lots and lots of familiar songs in this one!
I was there in 88 on Jefferson Ave probably high and drunk as a MF boomin this shit actin a nut!
Can we download for ipod? Please?
I’ll think about it.
bollox to a download. dub some more tapes!
Hook us up with a download please! This one needs to go with me outside!
Here’s some more track listing:
2:10 Hardhouse – Check This Out
4:00 MDEmm – Get Acidic
5:30 Adrenalin MOD – Ecstasy (Wherever You May Be)
6:15 Mix Masters – House Express
8:08 Liaisons Dangereuses – Peut Etre Pas
10:00 Lil Louis – Music Takes You Away
10:30 Chip E – Time To Jack
13:00 Rhythim is Rhythim – Feel Surreal
32:00 Bam Bam – Where’s Your Child
37:00 R Tyme – Illusion
40:00 R Tyme – R Theme
45:00 K Alexi – Vertigo
48:00 K Alexi – My Medusa
(43 mins isn’t Suburban Knight – Art of Stalking but sounds very similar, like a prototype version of it!)
Thanks for posting this and the other tapes, amazing pieces of Detroit history that are really interesting to hear!!
thanks for making this public – awesome jams!
Cool man. Help spread the word I have a lot more to share!
Thanks man. You need to start a music research company lol.
43:05 – Suburban Knights – The World’s (Transmat MS-13)
35:00 – Zsa Zsa La Boum – Something Scary
36:00 – Baby Ford – Ford Trax
Unbelievably awesome mix, cheers DJ A.
When you next playing in the UK? Saw you play way back in ’99 at The End in London. Was gonna see you at the Glade festival in ’07 but it was flooded out and I heard you got all the way to the airport over here and then just had to head back!
Hey man that’s not so I had other UK dates before the festival so It wasn’t a big deal.
Ah k that’s good., glad the journey was not wasted.
Still I was gutted, was really looking forward to seeing you play again! Next time
Yes I’m sure I’ll be back within a few months! Thanks!
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Hope you dont mind – a little bit of Techno 2011 style!
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OMG!!! THIS IS SO SICK!!! IF I HAD HEARD THIS SHIT WAY BACK IN ’88-’89 MY HEAD WOULD HAVE EXPLODED!!! PLEASE CONSIDER HOOKING US UP WITH A DOWLOAD OF THIS. LOVE TO ROCK THIS ON THE GO!!! THANKS, CARTDOGG420
Can we get a download? This needs to reside on my hard drive to share with my son when the time is right. Classic tracks, classic skills. This is djing in it’s highest form