Derrick May

[laughs] Um, and if you aren't familiar with Orlando's catalog, the man is an absolute chameleon.

Uh, he started out winning DMC DJ mixing championships in the late '80s before becoming one of the very first Europeans to build a bridge straight to Detroit, collaborating with legends like Derrick May and Juan Atkins under monikers like Format, Fix, and Nightripper.

Um, yeah, super cool.

And on this remix, you get that very, uh, like that vintage early '90s house DNA dialed all the way in with the warm Detroit-style chord stabs, uh, deep bass pressure, and, like hypnotic sequencing that Kompakt does so well.

And I feel like there were a lot of moments that potentially were that for me, but I didn't quite have the emotional maturity to realize.

And I look back now at all those notebooks and I'm like, wow, you did that you went to Detroit and you DJ'd with Derek May and Kevin Saunderson and halfway through the night you went out for a pizza with two young women who you can't remember their names and you were totally in another world and you I'm like wow that is that that really that those kind of experiences ought to just keep you alive forever you know what i mean to have that kind of inserted in your biography those kind of nights but but sometimes you're just so restless you want the next one to be like that and the one after and they're not always so seize the joy embrace the joy is what i would also say to that young man

I have five random quickfire questions for you, Dave.

The first of which is, who's the most famous person to have ever danced on one of your dance floors?

And may the funk be with you.

He played tracks from techno pioneers Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May, who made up the Belleville Three, and tracks from Matt "Mike" Banks, Rob Hood, and Jeff Mills, who formed the group Underground Resistance.

Together, they ushered a new sound into the city.

[techno music] But if you weren't listening to The Electrifying Mojo, you could only hear it in clubs, basements, and abandoned warehouses.

In fact, those are our brothers and sisters, you know? Um, you know, Chicago's our sister city.

Chip E. says Chicago and Detroit DJs were always in each other's cities, like the Belleville Three.

Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May were all customers of mine at Imports Etcetera, and I believe shortly after my first EP, Jack Trax, came out, that was when they came down and they brought their new record, No UFOs, and we were both like, "Wow, this is really good stuff."

Jail and we, jail and we, jail and we.

Now it costs a lot of money.

And I believe it was a Derek May set.

And it was like pouring rain outside, hard plaza.

We're all dancing, getting drenched.

People of such diverse backgrounds.

For folks who don't know, I'm a huge electronic music head.

Derek May is one of the founders, along with Kevin Saunderson and all of them.

They went to, I think, Montfort High School or something back in Detroit.