#640 Innovator - Rhythm Is Rhythm / Derrick May

Listen: The Dance https://youtu.be/sMq90UAg-Zw Strings Of Life https://youtu.be/rFQZndywOR4 Beyond The Dance https://youtu.be/mjKyXj7BBDM Sinister https://youtu.be/WU2D58QrIms Wiggin https://youtu.be/Z9cTBFFPt7s Nude Photo https://youtu.be/fDwpiNOVYe8 Hand Over and https://youtu.be/SZt06yUlMgw The release has been acclaimed as iconic because Derrick, the madcap and maverick philosopher of Detroit Techno, introduced the concept of dance music with a musical and emotional agenda way beyond anything that had come before. Beats with beauty. Literally the strings of life. Where fellow musical geniuses Chic had previously urged everybody to simply "Dance, Dance, Dance" mood alchemist Mayday merged simple yet cerebral dreamscapes with strange and urgent complex dance rhythms and invited us all to Dance And Dream. And in a strange juxtaposed way helped birth the hedonistic Acid House scene with classics “Nude Photo” and “Strings Of Life” The energy is frenetic, but merged with a new age ambie