FANTASIA presents DERRICK MAY "Hi Teck Soul Japan Tour 2005" in Fukuoka.　
Come on down if you are around the area!!

九州地区の方は、ぜひ遊びにきてください！

DERRICK MAY(TRANSMAT/DETROIT)
One of techno music's key founders, Derrick May was born in Detroit in 1963 and began early in his life to explore electronic music. Along with his Belleville, Michigan high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson -- commonly known as the Belleville Three -- May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed "techno" by Atkins. May's career started in 1987 with the release of a record called "Nude Photo", which helped kickstart the Detroit techno music scene. A year later he was following it with what was to become one of house music's classic anthems, the seminal "Strings Of Life" .May has also created his own record label Transmat which apart from his own work, has released records by well known Techno and house artists like Carl Craig (as Psyche), Suburban Knight, Octave One, K-Alexi Shelby and Joey Beltram. May has not released any new music since 1993, but has continued his career as a DJ, continuing to perform regularly in Europe and Asia. In 2003, he was granted control of Detroit's popular annual electronic music festival. He named his event Movement, replacing the Detroit Electronic Music

1980年代後半、デトロイトから世界へ向けて放たれた"STRINGS OF LIFE"は、新しい時代の幕開けを告げる名曲であった。自身のレーベルTRANSMATから"NUDO PHOTO"、"THE BEGINNING"、"ICON"、"BEYOND THE DANCE"等今でも色褪せない輝きを放つ数々の傑作を発表し、JUAN ATKINS、KEVIN SAUNDERSONと共にデトロイト・テクノのオリジネ―ターとして世界中のダンス・ミュージック・シーンに多大な影響を与えたDJ、DERRICK MAY。90年代前半まで多くの傑作を発表したデリック・メイであるが、1992年以降はほとんど作品を発表せず、沈黙を守り続けている。しかし、DJとしてその実力、人気共に絶大なものがあり、世界で最も多忙なDJの一人として活躍し、数々の伝説を残し続けている。　時代に流されることなく普遍的輝きを放ち、テクノ・ファンのみならず全てのダンス・ミュージック・ファンから絶大なる支持を得ている。