Feel my Bicep

Words of wisdom from one of the most important musicians and DJs ever coming out of Detroit: Mr. Derrick May – one of the godfathers of techno. Listen to him philosophising about how you pull the strings of life in the right way and right direction. Never dance to your own music. Don’t you ever dare to offer someone fruit with the promise how great the taste will be. Beware! There are a lots of shades of shit in an orange…

This interview with techno music pioneer Derrick May is part of a series created by the Red Bull Music Academy, click through for the full length version. RBMA have kindly created this editied version for feelmybicep.

Also including this awesome radio show at RBMA and from couple of weeks when Mr. May took over BBC Radio 6.

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Faced with the prospect of being homeless in a week, instead of being able to stretch the budget I  instead invest in more synths. Its tunes like this that mesmerise me in to buying them… its not my fault.

Feels so analogue! something you don’t get much these days.

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A week or so we posted the Jose Gonzales version of this and now this gets played on Skins in the UK… freaky shit.

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Andre Herman Dune – Smalltown Boy

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Lil Louis is the stage name used by Chicago-born house music producer and DJ Louis Burns. He scored a number of hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the eighties and nineties, three of which hit #1.

“French Kiss,” featured vocals by Shawn Christopher and spent two weeks at #1 on the dance chart in 1989.

More orgasim than you can shake a chloroform cloth at!

Lil Louis- French Kiss