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Derrick May Returns To London

Author: Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Detroit legend Derrick May headlines Split's first party at Turnmills next month, lining up alongside Surgeon, Chicken Lips, Ben Sims and Oliver Ho.

The superstar producer and seminal techno pioneer will be returning to London for the first time in 18 months and told Skrufff this week his feelings towards the city are nowadays ambivalent.

"There was a time when I considered London to be my second home in the late 80s and early 90s and at that time it always felt like a special place," said Derrick.

"Then the sensational and the populist became popular again in London and the music took a polite back seat, which meant I stopped seeing it as quite the same place it used to be. When I say populist and popular I'm talking about the age of the superclub, the Mixmag (type) magazines and that whole over-rated drug culture. People lost focus."

Derrick May, Guy Called Gerald, Chris Finke etc @ Split etc: Turnmills, Saturday February 7: tickets £12 in advance
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