Biography
Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Rhythim Is Rhythim, is an American electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States. May is credited with pioneering techno music in the 1980s along with collaborators Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as The Belleville Three. According to Sal Cinquemani of American Songwriter, May is "one of the most influential of Detroit’s wiz kids."
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
She Drives Me Crazy
1988
Good Life
1988
X∞Multiplies
1980
DJ-Kicks
2019
Knights Of The Jaguar EP
1999
More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art
1997
Dope Classics
1997
Power Of Seven⁷
1996
Dream 17
1988
Triangle Of Love
1986
Network Retro #4 - Back 2 Back Classics
1993
Can You Feel It
1992
System 7
1991
Strings Of Life
1987
Credited work
695 releases · 213 albums · active 1986–2025
- Performance · 459
- Engineering · 359
- Production · 343
- Other credits · 76
- Mastering · 7
Studios: Rollover Studios · Marcus Recording Studios · Do Not Erase Studio · Electronic Music Laboratories Of Aural Sciences
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- System 7
- Rhythim Is Rhythim
- Carl Craig
- Yello
- Francesco Tristano
- Sueño Latino
- Pete Tong