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“Atkins’ footprint was that large, that encompassing.”
“But in 1988, Atkins, who’d always dubbed his own music “techno,” codified that word’s musical import for good.”
“Add us as a Google Preferred Source T here isn’t a person in dance music who doesn’t owe Juan Atkins beyond measure.”
““The difference between Detroit and Chicago is that Chicago was still in the disco era,” he said.”
““I never intended that to be an actual label,” he said of Metroplex Records.”
“The music was still based on that Philly-soul disco sound, whereas our brand of electronic was totally future — totally future.”
“(Tresor Records reissued it on October 30, only two days before Juan’s death was announced.) Atkins’ music was never careless, but it was also not simply machine-tooled.”
“He was techno music’s fundamental architect in much the same way Berry was for rock and roll — Atkins laid out the music’s path, defined its instrumentation and phrasing, and crafted records that still sound as fresh as the day they were born.”
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“Atkins’ nickname was “the Originator,” and it was given to him by his Detroit peers, which may be the first and only time everybody in that city’s dance music scene has ever agreed on anything.”
“You can hear that all over Infiniti Collection , which gathered Atkins’ singles under that name.”
“Under a slew of aliases and group names — Cybotron, Model 500, Infiniti, 3MB, Channel One, Borderland — Atkins made music , in some cases nearly a half-century old, that still evokes the future like nothing else.”
“Atkins reached for the stars, but the stars themselves, and the act of reaching, mattered more than who was doing it.”
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“His death — of heart failure during his sleep in a Mexico City hotel room prior to a scheduled club performance, in a disheartening echo of his Chicago peer Frankie Knuckles’ 2014 passing, under similar circumstances — is like if Chuck Berry had died at age 64.”
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““When disco died everywhere else in the U.S., it continued in Chicago.”
“Maybe 30 days, maybe 60 days went past, and I was like, ‘OK, I’ll do it myself.’” The early Model 500 records wrote the blueprint and defined the sound of Detroit techno.”