BIOGRAPHIE
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. Over the years Michel succeeded to get a solid reputation abroad through his excellent DJ performances at clubs, parties and festival events across the globe.
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. This year Michel de Hey won the award for Best Techno DJ of the Netherlands for the third time. His club night 'Future…' in Nighttown Rotterdam was established in August 1995 and developed into a respected club night functioning as a musical indicator for the Dutch club scene. Since the foundation, Michel invited many national and international artists introducing the crowd to high quality techno and house music resulting in four national award nominations over the past years.
Over the last decennium Michel founded various record labels such as EC, CC, Brave New World and Miracle Records. EC Records delivered several floor fillers and chart hits over years, although it was not Michel’s main objective to aim for chart hits when he founded Immaculate Music. The labels are primarily respected throughout the dance music and club scene and are musically considered to be leading record labels in the Netherlands. Artists featuring on Immaculate imprints include Secret Cinema, Literon, Coming Soon, Chord Symbols, Graylock, Sterac and Grooveyard.
Three years ago Michel de Hey started a project together with William Literon of which the first release 'Mintage' came out on Plink Plonk Records UK. The Follow-up 'Cloaked' made press and DJ's aware of the duo and further enhanced their reputation in the UK. April last the 3rd collaboration with Literon 'Hirogen' came out on the Areacode-070 imprint and in May follow-up 'Transmitter' was released on EC Records. Also last years 'Compound' arisen from the collaboration between Michel de Hey and Grooveyard has been well received by press and DJ's. Michel’s latest collaboration is one with Secret Cinema bringing forth ‘Music is my Machine’, which recently came out on EC Records.
Furthermore, Michel is working on various compilation projects. The major ones are: the ‘Essential Elements’ series (EDM), the longest running Dutch dance compilation series since 1991, the ‘Technological Elements’ series (EDM), 'Impulz' (Influx), 'Dance Valley on Ibiza’ (Influx) and in-house compilation ‘Syntec’ (EC). This month the Dance Valley Mainstage Edition came out including this year’s Dance Valley Theme ‘Sounds from the valley’, produced by Michel de Hey and Secret Cinema.
