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Juan Atkins RIP: remembering the Detroit techno architect who found connections everywhere

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Tributes to techno Godfather Juan Atkins following his death at the age of 64 have rightly focused on his status as a genre pioneer, but the Detroit originator was also so much more than that. Across a career spanning four decades, “Magic Juan” was a world-class collaborator, mentor and connector of people who worked across styles and generations. He continually pushed his futuristic vision in strange new directions, yet always linked it back to that original Motor City framework. Here, Joe Muggs remembers an artist for the ages, whose music changed the world

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