Various ‎– Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive - Emotions Electric

Label:

Network Records – RETRO LP1

Format:

2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation

Country:

Released:

1991

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

House, Techno

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Model 500 –	No UFO's (D-Mix) Written-By, Producer – Model 500
A2	Reese –	Just Another Chance Written-By, Producer – Kevin Saunderson
A3	Mayday –	Freestyle Producer – Mayday Written-By – Derrick May
B1	Rhythim Is Rhythim –	The Dance (The Living Room Mix) Written-By, Producer – Derrick May
B2	R-Tyme –	R-Theme (Mayday Mix) Mixed By – Mayday Producer – Derrick May Written-By – D. Wynn*, Derrick May
B3	Cybotron –	Clear Written-By, Producer – 3070, Juan Atkins
C1	Reese –	Rock To The Beat (Mayday Mix) Producer – Kevin Saunderson Remix – Mayday Written-By – Saunderson, Echols
C2	X-Ray –	Let's Go (Dub Mix) Producer – Atkins* Written-By – May, Atkins
C3	Blake Baxter –	When We Used To Play (Unreleased Mix) Producer – Saunderson* Written-By – Baxter, Saunderson
D1	Seperate Minds* –	First Bass Producer – Seperate Minds* Written-By – Marc Kinchen
D2	Kevin Saunderson –	The Groove That Won't Stop Written-By, Producer – Kevin Saunderson
D3	Rhythim Is Rhythim –	Strings Of Life (Unreleased Mix) Written-By, Producer – Derrick May

Notes

Liner-notes include interview with Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins and Derrick May on one sleeve.
On the other one is a text about the music of Detroit by John McCready and a short overview on KMS, Metroplex and Transmat

Mastered at J.T.S., London.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Run-out Side A): RETRO LP1-A * MAX * - J.T.S.- *
Matrix / Runout (Run-out Side B): RETRO LP1-B * MAX * - J.T.S.- *
Matrix / Runout (Run-out Side C): RETRO LP1-C * MAX * - J.T.S.- *
Matrix / Runout (Run-out Side D): RETRO LP1-D * MAX * - J.T.S.- *

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Title, Format	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive - Emotions Electric (2xLP, Comp, Promo, W/Lbl)	Network Records	RETRO LP1	UK	1991
Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive - Emotions Electric (2xLP, Comp, RE, RM)	Network Records	RETRO LP1	UK	2008
Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive - Emotions Electric (CD, Comp)	Network Records, Network Records	RETRO CD1, retrocd1	UK	1991

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Rated 5/5

Review by 808 Jul 09, 2003

There was no warning. In the middle of 1987 and Chicago Ja-Ja-Ja- Jack fever a record from Detroit filtered into the UK. The label was called Transmat. The design was futuristic and suggested a 21st century Multi-National. It came from a bedroom in a neglected part of Detroit where taxi cabs would not go. Records from Detroit were the epitome of soul. This recoed was devoid of soul. It was however steeped in spirit. It was called "Nude Photo" The artist was Rhythim Is Rhythim. Listening to it the first time was weird. The second time made it seem even stranger. A sequenced mutant technology borne of a crazed imagination. A phone number on the label was answered by a man called Derrick May. He sounded... different. He sent a white label of the next 12". It was called "Strings Of Life" and it was a masterpiece. It still is. 20 year olds at Midlands Club where I played "House Music" hated it. The 15 year olds at the kids session went mad. Something was happening. Within two months Derrick arrived in England with four boxes of "Strings Of Life" to help pay for the flight. He had tapes of tracks with strange titles like "Sinister", "Wiggin" and "R-Theme". We didn't know it, but the bandwagon was already halfway down hill.

Derrick mentioned his old schoolmates, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins. "They make music too", he said. "We call it Techno". A meeting was arranged. It seemed we might be able to sell some records. Mick Clark at 10 Records agreed to take a compilation of this strange music. In Detroit I needed one final track to complete the album. Kevin pulled out a box with "Big Fun" scrawled across it. The next tape he played was "Rock To The Beat". I told Kevin to get ready to quit university. He thought I was joking. Within 12 months Techno had established itself as the most enduring influence on dance music. The niteties began and this remaind the case. Suddenly life was all about tracking how many millions of sales Inner City had chalked up, video budgets and remixes. Techno had gone mainstream. Too many conversations were about money. This album is from a time when Techno was a secret society. Not many people knew the codes. A time when staying up all night in Derrick's studio-come-bedroom where the taxi cabs wouldn't go meant hearing "It Is What It Is" for the first time. "Freestyle", "No UFO's" and "Just Want Another Chance" followed. It was wonderful. Retro Techno rewinds to them. It is what it was. Emotions Electric indeed.

Neil Rushton 1991

- text taken from the sleeve cover of this compilation -

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Review by brelson Sep 25, 2002

A definitive compilation of Detroit classics, with "Let's Go", "Clear", "No UFOs" and "Strings Of Life" representing pivotal moments in techno's creation. Also, we get Kevin Saunderson showing drum'n'bass producers how to produce their bass noises on "Just Another Chance"!

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