Juan Atkins has died
Electronic Groove remembers Juan Atkins, one of the originators of techno, recalling how one of its writers discovered the genre in 1992 at a record store in a small Venezuelan beach town. The piece reflects on his lasting influence.
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Atkins helped establish techno through Cybotron, Model 500 and the Metroplex label, and alongside Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson he shaped a movement whose influence reached far beyond Detroit. The writers stress that his significance lies in the imagination behind the records, since he and his peers made music because they believed in it without knowing how far it would travel. Tributes from artists whose careers he shaped show that his role went beyond the music itself, and the publication says it had planned a series on pioneers and hoped to interview him. The piece also points to the Black artists who laid the foundations of techno and house, whose contributions have not always received equal recognition.
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