HiTech
HiTech is putting a modern twist on Detroit’s electrifying ghettotech sound
with a mouthful of Hennessy and a double dose of booty-shaking techno. Since first releasing
music in 2022, HiTech has performed across the midwest from venues in Detroit, Chicago, and
Cleveland to nightclubs and stadiums in New York City, Atlanta, and Denver, as well as
overseas at festivals and venues throughout Europe.
Before their eccentric self-titled debut, HiTech organically formed as a group of young creatives
who were bound together by their respective roots in Detroit. Beyond the Detroit-based
influences that ground the group, an array of earlier influences find themselves rooted within
HiTech. 47Chops spent time growing up in both Richmond, Virginia as well as in Cambodia
during his early childhood, and he credits his dad— a hairdresser and musical artist who would
burn CDs for his hair shows—for an early introduction to cinematic techno, referencing the
Matrix soundtrack and Detroit’s popular New Dance Show. King Milo was also exposed to music
at an early age at the hands of musical parents—his dad was a full-time
rapper-performer-comedian. Milf Melly recalls riding around with his mom and hearing musical
influences that spanned rap subgenres from coast to coast, and later credits the video game
GTA V for getting him into dance music specifically.
Influenced by midwestern dance music icons from the likes of DJ Assault, Moodymann, DJ
Rashad, and more, HiTech began to fuse a new sound that transitioned the
Detroit-based-ghettotech sound they loved into a modern era. High-technology 808s, illustrious
melodies, vibrant synths, and fast paced, pitched up vocals weave together their debut project,
HiTech as well as their critically acclaimed follow up, 2023’s DETWAT. With a new album on the
horizon for 2024, HiTech are well on their way to reimagining dance and techno culture and
cementing a new quintessentially Detroit sound.
HiTech
HiTech is putting a modern twist on Detroit’s electrifying ghettotech sound
with a mouthful of Hennessy and a double dose of booty-shaking techno. Since first releasing
music in 2022, HiTech has performed across the midwest from venues in Detroit, Chicago, and
Cleveland to nightclubs and stadiums in New York City, Atlanta, and Denver, as well as
overseas at festivals and venues throughout Europe.
Before their eccentric self-titled debut, HiTech organically formed as a group of young creatives
who were bound together by their respective roots in Detroit. Beyond the Detroit-based
influences that ground the group, an array of earlier influences find themselves rooted within
HiTech. 47Chops spent time growing up in both Richmond, Virginia as well as in Cambodia
during his early childhood, and he credits his dad— a hairdresser and musical artist who would
burn CDs for his hair shows—for an early introduction to cinematic techno, referencing the
Matrix soundtrack and Detroit’s popular New Dance Show. King Milo was also exposed to music
at an early age at the hands of musical parents—his dad was a full-time
rapper-performer-comedian. Milf Melly recalls riding around with his mom and hearing musical
influences that spanned rap subgenres from coast to coast, and later credits the video game
GTA V for getting him into dance music specifically.
Influenced by midwestern dance music icons from the likes of DJ Assault, Moodymann, DJ
Rashad, and more, HiTech began to fuse a new sound that transitioned the
Detroit-based-ghettotech sound they loved into a modern era. High-technology 808s, illustrious
melodies, vibrant synths, and fast paced, pitched up vocals weave together their debut project,
HiTech as well as their critically acclaimed follow up, 2023’s DETWAT. With a new album on the
horizon for 2024, HiTech are well on their way to reimagining dance and techno culture and
cementing a new quintessentially Detroit sound.