Artists

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. Michel de Hey has won the award for Best Techno DJ of the Netherlands last December for the fourth time!

Since the beginning of 2003 he started to work together with the former Cosmack Management in London, now called Litheum Bookings. They are now responsible for all his dj activities outside the Benelux. Next to Michel they also take care of dj’s like Carl Cox, John Digweed, and Jimmy van M.

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, Warren Fellow, M.I.R.K.O. and Grooveyard. The summer has brought Michel and EC records a number 1 chart success in the Dutch Pepsi chart. The Fast Forward Anthem called “Be my guest“ was produced together with M.I.R.K.O. Again Michel produced the anthem for the 8th Dutch Love Parade. He has been ambassador for each edition and he has seen the Parade grow to one of the biggest parades worldwide.

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, Lupp 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 Klakbrenner, Polder, Mr G remixing tracks from the HEY! catalogue

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). Dance Valley Mainstage Edition, MDH01, 2 Faces. His latest cd offering “Recorded in Rotterdam� was highly appreciated and saw Michel supporting solely Dutch artists mixed on 1 cd.

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.fresf.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. And without a doubt the list will grow.
In 2008 Michel has already been touring in Japan, Hungary, UK, France, Lebanon, Greece, Spain etc. And his musical output has been hard to keep up with, 1 release on HEY! and one on EC records while the new HEY! is already being served. To be up to date with everything check www.micheldehey.com

DJ Mix CD’S
Essential Elements - Part 4 to 10 (compiled, not mixed) - CD EDM
Essential Elements - Part 11 (compiled and mixed) - CD EDM
Technological Elements - Part 1 – 2 – 3 - CD EDM
3 DJ’s in a Box - Part 1 – 2 – 3 - CD Arcade
Nighttown - Part 2 - CD Basic Beat
Impulz - Part 1 - CD Influx
Dance Valley on Ibiza vol. 1 - CD Influx
Dance Valley main stage 2002, mixed by DJ Michel de Hey - CD Influx
Syntec - Part 1 - CD EC Records
Various MDH01 - CD Trust the dj
Michel de Hey VS Secret Cinema Just the two of us - CD EC Records
Michel de Hey Two Faces - 2CD News
Michel de Hey-Recorded in Rotterdam-CD Immaculate Music
Michel de Hey-Snert(Remixes)-CD HEY!Records
Michel de Hey-Recorded In Amsterdam
Michel de Hey-Sylvester 3 -HEY!Records