Derrick May - It Is What It Is (Rhythim Is Rhythim)

[27maximum27]

One of my all time greats, Fucking love this tune.*****

[TheGeraldemerald]

Only 44,755 views for the most perfect techno tune ever? YouTube you disappoint...

[nizxbit]

Only 44 000 views in 3 years,for a track like this,that's pitiful.

I reckon this joints still too austere,bleak,futuristic,mind blowing for

most soft,conveyor belt sheep today.

[OLDSCHOOLRAVER1987]

still gives me goose bumps to this day

[ThisIsNotTrance]

This is NOT trance but Acid House if you remember it back in the day

ask Derrick May

[CaptainKubla]

It was going so well.......but you had to spoil it with FUCKING COMPUTER GAMES.

Look, you lifeless CUNTS, go outside, have a 'Happening'.....There is (believe it or not) a WORLD out there.

Here endeth the lesson.

[soneil12]

This is the first track I ever heard described as techno. Still one of my all-time favourites. By the time I first started playing clubs & raves it was a couple of years old but I still dropped it now and then in the wee hours.

[MarkCaru]

it is....what it is it is it is it is it isssss!! gr8 techno

[pedrothewheel]

it is what it is the best techno track you will ever here period

[ianpoolton]

what a tune.remember it.i was 22.love it.top of my list

[blamasterk]

In my case, UT sequences give a warm and fuzzy feeling - absolutely fitting to the music =D

[fdoukas]

if I had to choose a track to define "detroit techno" I would choose this

[Kj16V]

Great track. Personally I like the video. The game footage doesn't bother me.

[nickharris007]

just beautiful, man!

[SoulRoh]

oh my god - this track is from another world, this track IS an other world - what a feeling!!

[djgiovanninsane]

DETROIT TECHNO, U of D frat parties, Maxie's, That Place, Primadonnas, Oak park house parties, The Nectarine Ballroom, St. Andrews, where it all started! Nothing like my hometown on earth!

[phyzical03]

This is the song that brotke me in to house musik back in 88 this is the ultimate deep house track it doesnt get any deeper than this when i found this track on u tube I almost passed out after all these years of looking for it

[atommachine]

I remember buying this LP,

When i clapped my ears round this it was like the tune i had always been looking for, and i have been round the Universe:0.

What a build. Strings of life is a great track but this hits my emotions, very visual track. Thanks for the post.

Never heard a string sound sound so powerful......................­........................

[kennytrip]

it realy is ........ dont you just love the bit where it it stops spins+ the strings come in classic man......>>>>>>>>>>>>

[TheDeepRT]

i love this ! icon is great 2

[AnalogAssassin]

why the hell do you have to put video game footages with it?

[thesnobsupreme]

@AnalogAssassin the video game shit has abolutely nothin to do with techno or the spirit of techno

[MrWeekid]

@AnalogAssassin : i agree w/ yr comment, but you're not THE Analogue Assassin, are you ? To my knowledge, UR has no DJ from France + knowing how much Mad Mike despises the Old Continent... You probably thought it was a good nick (and it is, too !) BTW, this is NOT the original version from the "Innovator" album, which I happened to "grow up" with. The latter's much smoother, less overwhelmed with bass and its structure is less conventional. But, as a matter of fact, it's nowhere on YT.

[drknow2006]

best tune he ever did. this man changed many peoples life.

[ffcjohn]

The best Detroit Techno dance track ever. Thank you.

[alpieboy]

a ' fuckin amazing ! ..

[biddyficationprocess]

mate i don't dare about anybody this is is th best

[biddyficationprocess]

fuck evreyone

[biddyficationprocess]

fuyture

[biddyficationprocess]

hands up who likes the future

[biddyficationprocess]

you need exprexx yourslefle oops don't

[smabri1]

camden palace friday nights 1988

[hvylobster]

I like this music video because with my Aspergers I can only relate to video games.

[ephemerol]

this is fucking amazing

[deancoxable]

haha yes this song would be great for playing video games but i wouuld probably start dancing and die

[footmarshian]

this song is one of the best tracks ever made i made a tack like this years ago i always wanted may to hear it, to me Techno was always about emotions and the strings in this track are like a fantastic dream you never wont it to end ;-)

[tezzyla]

than fuck for the internet.

[airwicker7]

love this tune from way back when been looking for this tune for years..got it on vinyl on sunday...FUCKING AWSOME!!!

[kingduppy]

big up. im young and i love dubno, like dubsteppy techno. wish i was around when this was being produced... siiiiiick!!

[27maximum27]

pure class,this takes me back to when house was house.

[silverdale247]

More than 20 years old, still sounds fucking amazing!!

[MrTerryharrison1]

its life

[ev3nflow]

hell yeah brother... :)

[MrTerryharrison1]

the dogs bollocks

[JRWOOD75]

Priceless!

[bmuhamad]

Also from the album Techno: The Sound Of Detroit.

[HOUSEISHOUSE09]

IT IS WHAT IT IS!!!!

[HOUSEISHOUSE09]

ONE OF THE BEST TECHNO TRACK EVER. LOVE THE CHORDS. DEEP SMOOTH WITH SWANKY PIPS. HAD DIS ON HOUSE SOUNDS OF DETROIT COMPELATION. I USED TO LISTEN THIS REVISING FOR MY CSE's & GCSE's BACK THEN. DEEP TRANQUILIC THINKING TUNE. GOD BLESS DERRICK MAY!!!!!!!!!!

[2deep4u2]

bad tune , makes this new stuff sound like crack

[biddyficationprocess]

pps the place not the clubs

[biddyficationprocess]

ps it reminds me of space

[biddyficationprocess]

Best techno track ever (but don't get big headed dericc), the visuals are very stirring in a facist nutter kinda of way

[markymarks86]

yes boi!!!!

[diabledesbois]

yaaa!!! that was my fav on Rhythim Is Rhythim. thanks for the vid!

[djyanni68]

I used it as the theme tune of my dance music show "Cuffia & Martello" in Naples, Italy on Radio Spazio Uno between 1989 and 1991. Cool stuff.

[Jaggabone]

Thank you for posting this classic track! This may actually have been the 4th house track I've ever heard, first at a house party, then at 23_Hop underground club in T-dot way back; '88/89?

Take life the world for what it is!

[drkvogel]

Cool, thanks for upping... not sure about video game mass destruction as a backdrop to universal peace and love techno soul music but thanks anyway, Detroit techno 4 ever!

[NakamichiHD]

Yw ;-)

[Jaggabone]

Dude love how you dropped that pic of Derrick in the middle, where did you get that pic?!

[derekimo]

slam on the breaks....feel the rush!

[DeliciousJay]

dope song

[mfdoombr]

Awesome vid!!

[BeaksterSpore]

Played this track so many times on my Walkman, the whole track eventually warped. Forget the video above, just listen to the track and take it for what it is - the perfect techno track.

[teyegris313]

thats detroit all day right there, takes me back to the parks in the hood

[teyegris313]

cool song too

[teyegris313]

omg the matrix has us, lol cool video

[toiletduck23]

For some reason this track used to remind my ex of singing mice? a le chipmunks stylee, Derrick Mice anyone?

[bumpyjason]

takes me right back to spectrum.. nice

[vdoeschaal]

what shity game is that?

[RetroDystopia]

1:52/ 1:53 Possibly the greatest break EVER!

[toiletduck23]

Agree, the swirly piano bit at 2:00 is the sneakiest break ever, what made him put it in, maybe his cat walked on his mixing desk just then & spilt his frappichino? who knows...

[bumpyjason]

lol that part is probably why i still remember this track today! although without it it'd still be nuts.

[RetroDystopia]

THE SHIT!

[vdoeschaal]

I love the TB 303 and TR 808

[vdoeschaal]

OMG im in heaven

[vdoeschaal]

OMG on in Heaven

[kaifix]

mUSIC IS  Great!!! Respect from Russian part of Latvia!!!Detroit forever!!!

[Jaggabone]

Nah man pure soulful journey Derrick May is a contributor to this thing we call House Music All Night LONG!

THanks for posting this!

Beautiful memories of 1987!

[jijileila]

oh pleaassse... why do u place a quake shots to such a beautyful music?!

[dreamlogicc]

its the perfect blastin' tune?

[toiletduck23]

oh pleaassse... why make such a comment, never even looked at graphics whatever whats your point please, like the music, like the music, simple, innit....

[jijileila]

i believe that music plus graphics can make music even more better ;)

[toiletduck23]

Fair enuff jijileila, agree with you there, I`ve bought records in the past that dont listen to anymore but still have in my collection as the covers are cool, Depeche Mode always had cool covers on most of their output, then when they released their greatest hits, the cover looked like someone had made it using microsoft paint, but for a musical c.v of your whole career, is it just lazyness or cheapness? I have a lot of great records with absolute shit covers & vice versa

[toiletduck23]

Yea, enhance possibly the overall package was possibly point I`m tryin t make