Model 500
About Model 500
Model 500 and Model 600 are aliases of Juan Atkins. After releasing several Cybotron records, Atkins began recording as "Model 500" in 1985 and founded the Metroplex label. His friends Eddie Fowlkes, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson all recorded singles on the label. Atkins' first single as Model 500, "No UFOs," was a hit in Detroit and Chicago. He followed it with a series of landmark techno tracks, earning him the nickname "the godfather of techno.
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Top Tracks
Starlight
Night Drive (Time, Space, Transmat)
Nightdrive (Thru Babylon)
The Flow
The Chase - Smooth Mix
No UFO's (Vocal)
Starlight - Echospace Unreleased Mix
Time Space Transmat
Off to Battle
Future
Psychosomatic
No UFO's
Sound of Stereo
Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)
The Chase
No UFO's - Vocal
Milky Way
Electric Entourage
Vessels in Distress
Starlight - Original Mix
Orbit
The Passage
No Ufo's (Remix)
Astralwerks
Ocean to Ocean
Warning
Off to Battle (Remix)
I Wanna Be There
No UFO's - Remix
Lightspeed
Last Transport (To Alpha Centauri)
Electronic (Remix)
Neptune
TECHNO MUSIC (m500 Version)
Ocean to Ocean (Instrumental)
No Ufo's (D-Mix)
Electric Night
OFI
Night Drive
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Control
The Chase (Smooth Mix)
Starlight - Deepchord Mix
No Ufo's - D-Mix
Off To Battle - Remix
Wanna Be There
I Wanna Be There - Edit
I Wanna Be there (edit)
The Flow (Juan Atkins G-Funk mix)
future (vocal)
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