Juan Atkins
USA
Born: 12 September 1962
Genres: Electronic
Styles: Electronica, Club/Dance, Dance, Detroit Techno, Techno
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At the dawn of the 1980s, Juan Atkins began recording what stands as perhaps the most influential body of work in the field of techno. Exploring his vision of a futuristic music which welded the more cosmic side of Parliament funk with rigid computer synth pop embodied by Kraftwerk and the techno-futurist possibilities described by sociologist Alvin Toffler (author of The Third Wave and Future Shock), Atkins blurred his name behind aliases such as Cybotron, Model 500, and Infiniti -- all, except for Cybotron, comprised solely of himself -- to r...
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