--- title: "Derrick May - 3 hour set - Transmat - Detroit -Sugar's Tickets | Adelaide | Sugar - Ticket Fairy" description: "Eclipse & The Front Room present - An intimate performance from one of Techno's true pioneers DERRICK MAY (Transmat/Detroit) - 3 HOUR SET Supported by -Damien Donato Live (Juice Records) -Groov Mekanik Live -Heath Robertson -Jorge Watts -Milk Paste Saturday March 31st 9pm-5am Sugar Tickets on sale this Friday Feb 22nd Limited $35 Earlybirds, remaining tickets $45 This is Derrick May's first time performing in Adelaide in 5 years and is a nod to one of Eclipse and Sugar's all time favorite parties, the last Derrick May show at Sugar all the way back in 2007. Don't miss out on this one everybody. With the limited capacity of Sugar, we expect presale tickets to sell out before the night so its first in best dressed for this very special night. DERRICK MAY BIO Derrick May is one of the greatest living figures in electronic music, and one of the few in any genre who has helped to originate a style that has changed the sound and form of popular music across the world: techno. Born in Detroit on April 6, 1963, May met the other founding fathers of techno, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, while he was a teenager studying at Belleville High School. Inspired by European electronic sounds and black American dance music, May, Atkins and Saunderson - the ‘Belleville Three’ - developed a style that was both futuristic and emotional, physical and cerebral. “None of us knew this would be ground-breaking or revolutionary. As his music helped fire the European rave explosion in the late eighties, he also became an in-demand remixer. He set up his Transmat label in 1986 to release his own music, but also used it to nurture the next generation of Detroit techno producers, with releases by Silent Phase (Stacey Pullen), Psyche (Carl Craig), Dark Comedy (Kenny Larkin) and Suburban Knight (James Pennington), amongst others. Transmat continues to be an outlet for adventurous electronic music. His classic recordings were compiled on the ‘Innovator’ album in 1996, and he also collaborated with Steve Hillage on System 7’s album ‘Mysterious Traveller’, released in 2002. He dedicated himself to DJing around the world, becoming renowned across continents for his vigorously animated approach to playing music, his ability to connect the futuristic with the funky, and to fashion a dramatic, soul-stirring narrative. In 2016, he returned to the studio for the first time in a couple of decades, to record collaborative tracks with Luxembourg-born classical pianist Francesco Tristano, using a panoply of vintage and contemporary synthesizers to conjure elemental soundscapes from a series of freeform improvisations. The resulting album, ‘Surface Tension’ by Francesco Tristano feat. Derrick May, is released on Transmat. May, who remains as charismatic, eloquent and relentlessly energetic as ever." canonical: "https://www.ticketfairy.com/event/derrick-may-3-hour-set-transmat-detroit-sugar" --- # Derrick May - 3 hour set - Transmat - Detroit -Sugar's Tickets | Adelaide | Sugar - Ticket Fairy # Derrick May - 3 hour set - Transmat - Detroit -Sugar ## Event details | | | | --- | --- | | **Starts** | Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 9:00 PM | | **Ends** | Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 5:00 AM | | **Venue** | Sugar, 274 Rundle Street, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, AU | | **Organiser** | Adelaide Party Central | | **Age** | 18+ | | **Flyer** | | ## Tickets | Ticket | Price | Availability | | --- | --- | --- | | Group Purchase. 4 Tix For $45+bf Each. \*\* Only 2x Avail. | AUD 49.50 | Sold out | | Early Bird | AUD 38.50 | Sold out | | First Release $45+bf \*limited | AUD 49.50 | Sold out | **Buy tickets:** Saturday, 31 March 2018 09:00 PM Sugar, Adelaide, South Australia Ages 18+ ![Derrick May - 3 hour set - Transmat - Detroit -Sugar flyer](https://www.ticketfairy.com/uploaded/thumbnails/db_file_img_3633_300xauto.jpg) Get Tickets | Final Release $50+bf. \*\*limited A$50 (excl. fees) | | --- | | Group Purchase. 4 Tix For $45+bf Each. \*\* Only 2x Avail. Sold Out | | Early Bird Sold Out Earlybird | | First Release $45+bf \*limited Sold Out Derrick May First Release $45+bf ticket | **Sales for this event are closed.** **Got a promo code? Click here** **Promo Code** Top Influencers 1. 1 Michael T 2. 2 Jason F 3. 3 Patrick W 4. 4 Tessa M Eclipse & The Front Room present - An intimate performance from one of Techno's true pioneers DERRICK MAY (Transmat/Detroit) \- 3 HOUR SET Supported by \-Damien Donato Live (Juice Records) \-Groov Mekanik Live \-Heath Robertson \-Jorge Watts \-Milk Paste Saturday March 31st 9pm-5am Sugar Tickets on sale this Friday Feb 22nd  Limited $35 Earlybirds, remaining tickets $45 This is Derrick May's first time performing in Adelaide in 5 years and is a nod to one of Eclipse and Sugar's all time favorite parties, the last Derrick May show at Sugar all the way back in 2007. Don't miss out on this one everybody. With the limited capacity of Sugar, we expect presale tickets to sell out before the night so its first in best dressed for this very special night. DERRICK MAY BIO Derrick May is one of the greatest living figures in electronic music, and one of the few in any genre who has helped to originate a style that has changed the sound and form of popular music across the world: techno. Born in Detroit on April 6, 1963, May met the other founding fathers of techno, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, while he was a teenager studying at Belleville High School. Inspired by European electronic sounds and black American dance music, May, Atkins and Saunderson - the ‘Belleville Three’ - developed a style that was both futuristic and emotional, physical and cerebral. “None of us knew this would be ground-breaking or revolutionary. As his music helped fire the European rave explosion in the late eighties, he also became an in-demand remixer. He set up his Transmat label in 1986 to release his own music, but also used it to nurture the next generation of Detroit techno producers, with releases by Silent Phase (Stacey Pullen), Psyche (Carl Craig), Dark Comedy (Kenny Larkin) and Suburban Knight (James Pennington), amongst others. Transmat continues to be an outlet for adventurous electronic music. His classic recordings were compiled on the ‘Innovator’ album in 1996, and he also collaborated with Steve Hillage on System 7’s album ‘Mysterious Traveller’, released in 2002. He dedicated himself to DJing around the world, becoming renowned across continents for his vigorously animated approach to playing music, his ability to connect the futuristic with the funky, and to fashion a dramatic, soul-stirring narrative. In 2016, he returned to the studio for the first time in a couple of decades, to record collaborative tracks with Luxembourg-born classical pianist Francesco Tristano, using a panoply of vintage and contemporary synthesizers to conjure elemental soundscapes from a series of freeform improvisations. The resulting album, ‘Surface Tension’ by Francesco Tristano feat. Derrick May, is released on Transmat. May, who remains as charismatic, eloquent and relentlessly energetic as ever. --- This page is on Ticket Fairy, a ticketing, marketing and operations platform for live events and the venues that host them: festivals, club nights, concerts, conferences and tours, and night clubs, beach clubs and concert venues. It grows revenue with fan rewards that turn an audience into a sales channel, and runs the money side with payments and payouts, Vault business banking, and working capital advanced against ticket sales. 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