Derrick May, also known as Mayday and Rhythim is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Detroit, Michigan U.S.. He was born in Detroit in 1963 and began to explore electronic music early in his life. Along with his Belleville, Michigan high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as the Belleville Three, May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed "techno" by Atkins. Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Nickname: Motor City; Motown, D-Town, The D, The Renaissance City, Detroit Rock City, The Rock City, The 313 Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country State County United States Michigan Wayne... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Belleville is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Juan Atkins (born December 9, 1962 in Detroit) is an American musician. ... Inner City (Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey) Kevin Saunderson (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 9, 1964) is an American electronic music producer. ... House music is a style of electronic dance music, the earliest forms of which originated in the United States in the early- to mid-1980s. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ...

May's career started in 1987 with the release of a record called "Nude Photo" (co-written by Thomas Barnett), which helped kickstart the Detroit techno music scene. A year later he was following it with what was to become one of house music's classic anthems, the seminal "Strings of Life". House music is a style of electronic dance music, the earliest forms of which originated in the United States in the early- to mid-1980s. ...

In the 90s May also played at many UK raves for the likes of Obsession.

May has also created his own record label Transmat which apart from his own work, has released records by well known techno and house artists like Carl Craig (as Psyche), Suburban Knight, Octave One, K-Alexi Shelby and Joey Beltram. This article is about the record label. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... House music is a style of electronic dance music, the earliest forms of which originated in the United States in the early- to mid-1980s. ... Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names, in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs. ... James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is an artist and DJ/Producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, USA. Music by Pennington and other UR members was featured in the video game Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, which is set on the streets of... Joey Beltram (born November 6, 1971) is an American DJ and record producer, known best for the pioneering techno music recordings Energy Flash and Mentasm, with which he was supposedly trying to emulate the hard-edged energetic style of his heroes Led Zeppelin. ...

May has not released any new music since 1993, but has continued his career as a DJ, continuing to perform regularly in Europe and Asia. In 2003, he was granted control of Detroit's popular annual electronic music festival. He named his event Movement, replacing the Detroit Electronic Music Festival along the city's riverfront. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... The Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) was a successful electronic dance music showcase held in Detroit each Memorial Day weekend from 2000 to 2006. ...

Discography

• X-Ray: Let's Go, 1986
• Rhythim is Rhythim[sic]: Nude Photo, 1987
• Rhythim is Rhythim: Strings Of Life, 1987
• Rhythim is Rhythim: It Is What It Is, 1988
• Rhythim is Rhythim: Beyond The Dance , 1989
• Rhythim is Rhythim: The Beginning, 1990
• Rhythim is Rhythim: Icon / Kao-tic Harmony, 1993
• Derrick May: Innovator, 1996
• Derrick May: Mayday Mix, 1997
• System7-Derrick May: Mysterious Traveller, 2002

External links

• The official site of Derrick May
• Derrick May personal web page
• Derrick May Profile on Fantazia
• Official site of Derrick Mays label Transmat