1) Kevin Saunderson & Derrick May
When: Day 3 at 10:30 PM
Where: Thump Stage
If you disregard everything else on this list (which would mean that you’ve actually completed your training and are now a full-fledged music snob), the single DJ set that you have to see in order to understand what techno truly is will be the one performed by Kevin Saunderson and Derrick “Mayday” May to close out the Thump stage on the third and final day of the festival.
The two members of the “Belleville Three” most widely credited with developing the style of music that the third, Juan Atkins, would later call “techno,” May and Saunderson’s rhythms have reverberated throughout the concrete jungles of Detroit since the late ‘80s. As the video above firmly proves, May also commands prodigious skill as a turntablist – making his live sets a spectacle all their own.