Delete @ Jacob’s Market, Cardiff
Sun 30 Apr
And, for our next Derrick… it’s Mayday. Delete’s pumping, ever-popular Sunday garden party returns with more Detroit techno heaven. Carl Craig hit the Gwdihw car park in 2015 and this time, at Jacob’s Market, Delete are taking it back even earlier to the first wave of Motor City electro soul with the evergreen Derrick May.
If you don’t know who he is, this is one of the artists who laid some of the most important foundations for dance music in the 80s. Strings Of Life? Yeah, that’s one of his (released under a different name, one of the greatest typos in music: Rhythim Is Rhythim). He and his school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson became known as the Belleville Three, mixing the early house music that was coming out of Chicago with the future funk of Prince and George Clinton and the electropop and Krautrock of Depeche Mode, New Order and Kraftwerk to create the alien-sounding, man-machine funk that was called techno.
Each of the three artists set up their own influential record label; May’s Transmat Records is still going strong today, and as a DJ, he’s more active after 30 years, than most of his early peers. Regulars Matt Owen, Marc Parsons and Lee Graves warm up, before May begins the journey through his back catalogue of mindbending cosmic rhythms. Where else are you gonna spend your bank holiday, at the beach? Come off it.
Tickets: £25. Info: facebook.com/deletecardiff