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A short clip from a film I made with Elliott Eastwick about the music of Detroit and its impact on our home town of Manchester. Here techno pioneer Derrick May tells us how he made the seminal 'Strings of Life'. Also includes Doves and Hacienda Dj Mike Pickering.

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  • LEGEND, LIVING LEGEND!!

  • Brilliant/emotional. I remember Thom Yorke posted this on Radiohead's blog a few years ago while recording In Rainbows. I can hear a bit of Derrick May influence on his song Eraser and definitely on the end of Reckoner as played live, but no one has ever really hit on the simplicity and the depth of this timeless beautiful song.

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  • Whats the name of the film this clip is from

  • Are all the parts to this on your channel looks interesting...

  • I like this song, but I'm curious why the early Detroit legends were so unproductive? Other techno artists seem to churn out record after record, album after album. It makes this song just seem like a happy accident. Get to work Derrick!

  • This dude is full of himself, as much as he doesn't want to admit. Largest flaw.

  • @vicetube The pleasure's all mine. And speaking of "mistakes", Live For Eternity happens to be the name of my novel. haha Check it out on Amazon. All the best.

  • @cavaleer Spot on. The internal is the key to life, it can allow humanity to live for eternity. Our subconcious is stirred abnd we reach for the stars.

    Indeed.

    Thank you good man.

  • @vicetube External influences are obviously a part of the creative process. I'm a literary artist and an aesthete overall and I'm acutely aware of my environments....sunlight, rain, lightning, sun, moon, mountains, oceans, snow, sleet, plant-life etc.But all of this is merely raw background material for the internal alchemy that creates ART. The internal is infinitely superior to the external. Darwin was dead wrong. Nietzsche discusses this at length.....

  • @cavaleer Incredible thesis sir, however - do you believe that instead of only having art born from within, that an artist can be stricken by a bolt of how shall one say, "noetic lightning", from the outside? Perhaps a spontaneous harmonic "streak" of both inwards and outwards psychedellium? How curious....

    How curious indeed.

  • @najlosiji I cannot understand why your comment doesn't have thumbs up. I mean, it's a justin bieber joke :3

  • 10 pessoas são anormais!!!!!

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