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Sunday, May 29, 2005

Get Model 500

Posted by on May 29 at 9:21 AM

Everyone go and get a copy of Deep Space by Model 500 (Juan Atkins). It was released a decade ago but it will never age. By the way, Dave Segal was right; the main source of Detroit techno is European electronic music and not the blues or any other black-based form. As the brilliant culture critic Kodwo Eshun put it, “Kraftwerk are to techno what Muddy Waters is to the Rolling Stonesthe authentic, the origin, the real… Düsseldorf is the Mississippi Delta.”