Juan Atkins
Birthday
1962/12/09 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also know as
Magic Juan Atkins, The Belleville Three, Cybotron , Model 500, Infiniti , The Godfather of Techno , Borderland , X-Ray
Biography
Juan Atkins, an American DJ and record producer often hailed as "the Godfather of Techno," was born September 12, 1962, in Detroit, Michigan. He met friends Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson in junior high school after moving to Belleville, Michigan. The trio would come to be known as The Belleville Three. Atkins joined with Richard Davis in 1980 to form Cybotron. Their debut studio release, the electro album Enter, was released three years later. Atkins later left Cybotron and released music und...Read more
Acting
(2022) God Said Give 'Em Drum Machines
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(1996) Party! Party! Party! – Der lange Tanz des Techno
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(2008) SubBerlin - Underground United
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(2018) Sound of Berlin
as Juan Atkins
(2017) Never Stop: A Music That Resists
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(1996) The Last Angel of History
as Self
(1996) Universal Techno
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