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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

That was that was a little bit later, about 1990. Techno was well established by then and Derrick May for me was one of one of the most interesting of those early Detroit techno pioneers. Again, Stu Allan would play it on his radio show. One of the strange things about this track is that the bass drum takes a long time to comes in – he’s straddling those different domains of club music and listening music. It has this incredible build up with these strings fading in until they envelop the sound. In terms of informing my ideas about how to compose – the idea of things fading in slowly – that comes from listening to this track.

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