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Juan Atkins: Juan Is The Teacher

Kris Needs, Mixmag, August 1993

COULD IT be 'Magic'? Yes that was Juan Atkins, the "Magic One" and legendary Godfather Of Techno leaning against a pillar at the Drum Club the other week. Like many of his contemporaries, this quietly influential techno force has been magnetised to Europe by a receptiveness and respect he rarely finds at home in Detroit. "I do feel a definitive vibe here," he says.

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