Juan Atkins
Juan Atkins, as part of the so-called Bellville three, is one of the main proponents and pioneers of techno music. He was born in Detroit in 1962, and at early age, learned to play bass, drums and a bit of guitar. Atkins went to the same high school as Derrik May and Kevin Saunderson, in Belleville, Michigan. The three friends regularly listened to WGPR’s Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson, a categorization-defying DJ who played soul, funk, new wave, rock and electro-pop for a mostly black listening audience. Hearing electronic music for the first time at sixteen, Atkins abandoned bass and began producing music with his first synthesizer, a Korg MS10. He taught May to mix using cassette decks and the two began DJing together as Deep Space. In... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Genre:
- Electronic-Dance, Techno
- Birthdate:
- 09/12/1962
