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Techno pioneer, innovator and heavyweight don Derrick May returns for another HI-TEK-SOUL event not to be missed. Relentlessly playing across the globe delivering consistent DJ sets that amaze and move people to a deeper level, Derrick May is one artist that truly inspires!!! Celebrating 20 years of his TRANSMAT RECORDS label and expanding on his HI-TEK-SOUL imprint with the HI-TEK-SOUL movie, Derrick is on a dedicated mission to set the musical record straight. Look out!!!

Hi-tek-soul is a sound, an idea, a movement, a feeling. Pioneering detroit producer and dj derrick may is the movement's visionary and its nexus. Constantly spreading the hi-tek-soul sound as one of the world's most loved and respected djs and as head of his highly reputed label transmat records. He uses every performance as an opportunity to communicate through sound, to expand the idea, to demonstrate the feeling and to illustrate the vision he has for hi-tek-soul. Time and again crowds gravitate to hear derrick, to hear his genuine voice speak of an uncompromising underground, freedom of expression and the pleasure of a spontaneous soulful art form.

Music lovers gather in clubs, warehouses and spaces worldwide every week to experience the charged atmosphere his intense and often lengthy performances create. Derrick, the voice of the hi-tek-soul sound, puts sweat, muscle, heart, soul and an undeniable magnetism into each set giving a unique and personal sound communiqué to each room, and without fail he reaches each person there. Why? And how? Because of the soul. His soul. Hi-tek-soul.

As Derrick says, 'At Hi-Tek-Soul parties I choose people who truly believe in what they do and are not prejudiced against any music that has soul. The music is not all four on the floor; it is everything that is electronic and soulful. Hi-Tek artists are not linear; they will take on any challenge and surprise the hell out of you. The idea with these parties is to bring people on board that represent something that will help to keep the real electronic movement alive. I'm giving people my personal energy, my musical history, everything I have to give: I'm giving them good medicine. Anyone who has come by since 95 have been shortchanged, and many people have never really heard proper electronic music, they've missed it. The meaning of Hi-Tek-Soul is to put the soul back into electronic music.'

The music is not all four on the floor; it is everything that is electronic and soulful. Hi-tek artists are not linear; they will take on any challenge and surprise the hell out of you. The idea with these parties is to bring people on board that represent something that will help to keep the real electronic movement alive. I'm giving people my personal energy, my musical history, everything i have to give: i'm giving them good medicine. Anyone who has come by since 95 has been shortchanged, and many people have never really heard proper electronic music, they've missed it. The meaning of hi-tek-soul is to put the soul back into electronic music.”