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Electronic / TechnoJuan Atkins
The Originator of Techno
Juan Atkins is widely credited as the originator of techno music, having developed the genre in the early 1980s in Belleville, Michigan. Influenced by George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Kraftwerk, and the futurist writings of Alvin Toffler, Atkins created a sound that was simultaneously rooted in Black American music and pointed toward a technological future that Detroit's industrial decline made feel both urgent and inevitable. His Metroplex Records label and his project Model 500 laid the foundation for an entire global music movement. Tracks like "No UFOs" and "Techno Music" defined the genre's vocabulary before it even had a name. Alongside Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson — the "Belleville Three" — Atkins gave Detroit a second musical identity that stands alongside Motown as one of the city's greatest cultural exports.