It’s 1985, and Juan Atkins has parted ways with his partner in Cybotron, a music group that in the decades to come will be synonymous with the origins of Detroit techno. This split between the pair is due to creative differences, with Atkins the more committed of the duo to maintaining a futuristic, electronic tone in his music. Atkins has since been producing tracks alone under various pseudonyms, as he experiments with the identity for this new genre of electronica that he has been so central in conceiving. It is with one such futuristically titled project, Model 500, that he will develop what for some observers is the first pure techno track.

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