Innovator

by Derrick May

Innovator cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 1991
  • Label: Network
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:08:20
  • Community rating: 4.35/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Subtitled 'Soundtrack for the Tenth Planet', the compilation gathers May's Rhythim Is Rhythim and Mayday recordings, including 'Strings of Life', 'Nude Photo' and 'The Dance'. May was one of the Belleville Three alongside Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, and a later remaster expanded the set to two discs.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, digital, groove-laden, dance, retro

Tracklist

  1. Strings of the Strings of Life (9:47)
  2. Another Kaos Beyond Kaos (0:49)
  3. Freestyle (4:26)
  4. A Rest / Beyond Kaos (1:31)
  5. The Dance (7:12)
  6. Spaced Out (0:57)
  7. Daymares, It Is What It Is (6:37)
  8. Some More Spaced Out (1:07)
  9. Beyond the Dance - The Cult Mix (6:52)
  10. Feel Surreal Ends the Feel Surreal (0:59)
  11. R-Theme (6:03)
  12. Emanon Begins (1:18)
  13. Sinister (6:37)
  14. The End (3:53)
  15. To Be or Not to Be (6:54)
  16. Icon - Montage Mix (5:49)
  17. Phantom (1:43)
  18. Kaotic Harmony (6:35)
  19. Phantom Lurks (1:12)
  20. Salsa Life (5:29)
  21. Nude Photo (5:41)
  22. The Beginning (5:28)
  23. A Relic Long Ago (1:01)
  24. Drama (4:25)
  25. Emanon Ends (2:42)
  26. Winter on the Blvd (6:46)
  27. Strings of Life (6:02)
  28. Dreams of Dreamers (4:01)
  29. Wiggin - Juan Atkins Mix (6:10)

Credits

  • Sally Geier - graphics [additional graphics edits]
  • Scott Sterling - other [insert text]
  • William Tigertt - other [sigma6]
  • Carl Craig - remix, producer [additional], written-by
  • Juan Atkins - remix, producer [remix production]
  • Rufus Knight-Webb - artwork
  • Sigma6 - design [cover & insert design]
  • Michael James - written-by
  • D-Wynn - written-by
  • Thomas Barnett - written-by

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