From artist Sent Wed, Jul 1st 1998, 09:28
From artist Sent Wed, Jul 1st 1998, 09:28
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:59:50 -0500, you wrote: >One, Is this a straight repackaging of 2 previously released Derrick May >full-lengths?=20 it appears to be the same as the japanese-issued innovator comp, judging from the track listings posted on web sites. but my r&s promo double cd doesn't have the ken ishii remix and the track titles are slightly different. it may be the same otherwise. >Rythim' and disk 2 being 'Mayday'), but on the other the tracks seem to >be in some cases snippets, alternate mixes and otherwise non-standard >versions (see below). derrick's added little bits to some of the tracks, mostly string sections at the start and finish of tracks. notably, the version of freestyle (found on the italian version of 'relics') has a complete string section overlaid onto it. some of the tracks are (sometimes very) shortened versions of tracks you can get elsewhere, like emanon and some of the 'relic' tracks. afair one old relic interlude appears here in a longer form. >Two, track 2 on disk 1 is labeled 'strings of the strings of life'. Is >this _the_ 'Strings of Life'? this is the 'ambient' mix - the mix on disc 2 is the 'original', or at least, the one that really broke mayday big. >Three, track 11 on disk 1 is labeled 'it is what it is'. Cool, that's >one of the tracks the liner notes points to as one of May's 'timeless >classics'. Only, the track clocks in at.. 9 seconds on the CD. So is >this just a 9 second teaser for the real track, is the CD mislabeled, or >what? =3D) my cd has the full track.. >In case you, the reader, don't know, this release is stellar.=20 yeah, but it means you still have to buy the other innovator compilation and relics, and virtual sex, and emotions electric, ad infinitum, to get a decent collection of derrick's music. and another thing - some of the tracks on this new compilation are /poorly/ mastered. i don't know what tapes they were using, but some of the tracks sound far worse than they do on my vinyl issues on kool-kat and transmat, namely tracks from 'the beginning' ep. if anyone has this and other mayday stuff (like maybe a cd version of virtual sex) and can cdr it, i'd be interested in trading :-) <waves>