With much respect to the Detroit pioneers:

Both, Saunderson and May are either hit or miss. Their tunes are good, but the mixing is not always. I saw May in Detroit twice last year and the tracks he was playing were killer, but his mixing was really shaky both times. Then, I saw him last month at a club in Chicago and his mixing was right on. :?: Same could be said for Saunderson - good tracks but not always good mixing.