juan atkins

Rest in peace to The Originator — we’d be in a very different, probably worse place, without Atkins and his grandmother, who helped get him his first Korg.

The Quietus, above, says “incalcuable”, which is probably true. For me, the best thing about Atkins is that he kept making music, he kept working with other people, and he kept trying to find the next things for Model 500 and for Metroplex. CDM has a bunch of links; the quote from Abdul Haqq, “He named the future and built it from Detroit”, is the one that lands for me.