Michel de Hey

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Michel de Hey must be seen as one of the people who took responsibility for dance music and its direction in Rotterdam. With his talent both as a producer and as a DJ, Michel opened the door to techno and tech house for a lot of people.
His DJ career kicked of in 1986 and with his first recording release ‘Break’ he entered the Top 10 of the US Billboard Dance Charts. Since then, Michel de Hey developed his funky techno sound to what it is today. Many times Michel has been nominated for national dance awards such as the LSDA Awards, the TMF Nokia Awards and the Update Dance Awards. Michel de Hey has won the award for Best Techno DJ of the Netherlands four times by now!

Over the last decennium Michel founded various record labels such as EC, CC and Brave New World.

For his labels Michel has made several solo productions or releases in cooperation with Literon aka Gert-Jan Bijl, Secret cinema aka Grooveyard aka Jeroen Verheij and Mirko van Dommelen. Apart from his own labels Michel has also made music for 070 records, Artform, and Plink Plonk.
Since a few years Michel also has HEY! records. On this label he only releases his own productions. The label has been supported by a whole range of dj’s from John Digweed, to Josh Wink, to Tom Middleton, to Adam Beyer. Furthermore he has had artists like Funk D ‘Void, Paul Kalkbrenner, Polder, Stimming and Mr G remixing tracks from the HEY! catalogue

Not only on clubs, parties and cd’s you can listen to Michel, he also has his radioshow called HEY-Muzik. It is now broadcasted nationwide every Friday from 21.00-23.00 on Fresh Fm. Check www.fresh.fm if you want to tune in for a weekly update on underground minimal, tekhouse, and techno music

But above all Michel is playing all over the world, while maintaining his status as the number 1 underground tekhouse/techno dj from Holland. He has entertained thousands and thousands of people with his unique sound. From Space Ibiza, to Indonesia, from a 4000 people Rotterdam solo beach party to the Womb in Japan, from Circo Loco at DC 10 to Creamfields, the list is endless. Furthermore he is working together with A-live on his HEY! parties in Holland, which resulted in highly successful area @Mysteryland
To top things of his musical output has been hard to keep up with. Releases on Hey! and EC records and remixes for several other labels are floating like water. In between djíng and producing he managed to find time to release his new mixcd called NoNonsense. Check it out