Coordinates	28°36′36″N77°13′48″N
Name	Juan Atkins
Background	solo_singer
Alias	Model 500, Infiniti
Birth date	December 09, 1962
Origin	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Genre	Techno, electro
Instrument	Korg M3, Korg R-3
Years active	1981–present
Label	Metroplex
Associated acts	Cybotron }}

Juan Atkins (born December 9, 1962) is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three, sometimes called the Belleville Three, attended high school together in Belleville, Michigan, near Detroit.

Biography

Early life

Born in Detroit, Michigan, United States as the son of a concert promoter, Juan Atkins learned how to play bass, drums, and "a little lead guitar" at an early age. Atkins, along with school friends Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, tuned in regularly to WGPR to hear DJ Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson's genre-defying radio show.

At age sixteen, Atkins heard electronic music for the first time, which would prove to be a life-changing experience. In late-1990s interviews, he recalls the sound of synthesizers as being like "UFOs landing." He soon had his first synthesizer and abandoned playing funk bass.

Deep Space Soundworks

He bought his first analogue synthesizer, a Korg MS10, and began recording with cassette decks and a mixer for overdubs. He subsequently taught Derrick May to mix, and the pair started doing DJ sets together as Deep Space. They took their long mixes to Mojo, who began to play them on his show in 1981. Atkins, May, and Saunderson would continue to collaborate as Deep Space Soundworks, even starting a club in downtown Detroit for local DJs to spin and collaborate.

The 1982 single "Cosmic Cars" also did well. Cybotron recorded their debut album, ''Enter'', and were soon signed to Fantasy Records. One track, "Clear," struck out in the direction that Atkins would pursue with what would later be called his "techno" music. Instead of merely reworking elements of, "Clear" fused them with club music.

Atkins considered Cybotron's most successful single, "Techno City" (1984), to be a unique, synthesized funk composition. After later hearing Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" (1982), which he considered to be a superior example of the electro funk style he was aiming for, he resolved to continue experimenting, and encouraged Saunderson and May to do the same.

In 1985, Atkins left the group due to artistic differences with bandmate Rik Davis. Davis wanted the group to pursue a musical direction closer to rock, while Atkins wanted to continue in the electro-style vein of "Clear".

Model 500

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." Within a few years, Atkins' work was re-released in Europe.

Infiniti

Over the years, Atkins has also released works under the name Infiniti. He explained the difference in a 2007 interview: "Model 500 is really a continuation of Cybotron. That's one thing that I've always stayed the course with and I've always wanted to not deviate when I do stuff with Model 500. In the past year it's probably what Cybotron would have done had the partners not split. Its more song-oriented with melodies, not just dance track - that's always been my experiences with Model 500. Now if I do stuff under the name Infinity [sic], that would be the more straightforward form of pure techno, the purest techno what is deemed as techno right now in North America and in Europe."

Musical style

Atkins' earlier works are generally considered ''electro''. Over the years, his sound matured and grew in complexity, and many of his more recent works are heavily layered rhythmic soundscapes. Today, this ''techno'' is considered its own genre.

Influences

Atkins and other Techno artists have cited the long-running Detroit radio show of Charles "Electrifyin' Mojo" Johnson as a musical influence. Mojo, a local legend in radio, played an eclectic mix of music including Parliament, and Prince. Atkins and May got their start recording from the radio and remixing for the radio, specifically, Mojo's show; after this apprenticeship, they began producing original music.

The Detroit Sound

"Maybe techno coming out of Detroit had more of the black experience involved, and of course what we've grown up with is soul music and R&B; stuff, and then there's funk itself," Atkins told Melbourne magazine ''Zebra'' in 1999. "It would be only natural that more of these elements would show up."

Discography

as Cybotron, with Rick Davis (1981–1983)

*"Alleys of Your Mind" (1981), single

*"Cosmic Cars" (1982), single

*"Clear" (1982), single

*''Enter'' (1983)

*"Techno City" (1984), single

*''Clear'' (1990), digitally remastered re-release of Clear

as Model 500 (1985–present)

*"No UFO's" (1985), single

*"Night Drive"" (1985), single (includes "Time Space Transmat")

*"Jazz is the Teacher" (1993), 12 inch joint production with 3MB

*"Pick Up the Flow" (1993), 12 inch

*''Sonic Sunset'' (1994)

*Deep Space (1995)

*''Body and Soul'' (1999)

*''OFI / Huesca'' (2010)

as Infiniti (1991–1995)

*''Skynet'' 1998

*"The Infinit Collection" 1996

as Model 600 (2002)

*''Update'' 2002, single

as Juan Atkins

*The Berlin Sessions 2005

Filmography

''High Tech Soul, 2006''

Catalog No.: PLX-029

Label: Plexifilm

Released: 09/19/06

Director: Gary Bredow

Length: 64 minutes

Summary: HIGH TECH SOUL is the first documentary to tackle the deep roots of techno music alongside the cultural history of Detroit, its birthplace. HIGH TECH SOUL focuses on the creators of the genre—Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson—and looks at the relationships and personal struggles behind the music. Artists like Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Eddie Fowlkes and a host of others explain why techno, with its abrasive tones and resonating basslines, could not have come from anywhere but Detroit.''

See also

Derrick May

Kevin Saunderson

Blake Baxter

Carl Craig

Jeff Mills

References

External links

Juan Atkins / Model 500 / Infiniti / Cybotron discographies at Discogs.

"The Roots of Techno", Wired Magazine Interview with Juan Atkins.

[ Biography of Juan Atkins by John Bush].

High Tech Soul-Documentary: The Creation of Techno Music.

High Tech Soul Trailer.

Interview with Juan Atkins by Dan Bean, Bleep43.

Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:African American musicians Category:American DJs Category:American techno musicians Category:Electro musicians Category:People from Detroit, Michigan

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Coordinates	28°36′36″N77°13′48″N
name	Don "Magic" Juan
background	solo_singer
origin	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
years active	2002–present
label	Avatar Records
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Don "Magic" Juan (born Donald Campbell, aka The Chairman of the Board, Archbishop Don 'Da Magic' Juan, Bishop Magic Juan, and Bishop) is an American hip hop artist, actor, ballet dancer and pimp from Chicago.

Career

Juan's climb to mainstream celebrity began when he met Snoop Dogg backstage at one of his concerts. They soon became good friends, and Juan became Snoop's "spiritual advisor". He also acts as a "spiritual advisor" to Gina Gershon as seen in an episode of the documentary series ''Rocked with Gina Gershon''. To date, Juan has not released any albums of his own, although in 2003, Snoop Dogg stated that he was working on producing Juan's first album. Juan did release a compilation album of '70s and '80s soul classics in 2006, titled ''Green is for the Money, Gold is for the Honeys''.

Juan has had several supporting roles in music, videos, and live stage shows of established rap artists, including a remix of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P.", (as well as being featured in the music video), and a spoken-word interlude on Da Brat's album ''Unrestricted''. He is also featured in Twista's song "Pimp On" from the ''Kamikaze'' album, and "Bo$$ Playa" from Snoop Dogg's album ''Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss''. Juan can also be seen as part of Snoop's entourage in movies such as ''Starsky & Hutch'' and ''Old School''. His TV appearances include the Ice-T episode of ''Behind the Music'', ''Girls Next Door'', ''The Daily Show'', Rob and Big, and Viva La Bam. Juan also appears in the B-Real music video "Los Angeles" directed by Director Hugo V, ''Pimps Up, Ho's Down'', a documentary about the pimping lifestyle, and the Hughes Brothers-directed documentary ''American Pimp''.

Juan was caricatured in Aaron McGruder's comic strip ''The Boondocks'' for a November–December 2003 story arc during which ''Boondocks'' characters Huey and Caesar were attempting to find then-U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice a boyfriend. He also had a small role as a pimp associated to the character Money Mike, played by Katt Williams, in the film ''Friday After Next'' starring Ice Cube. Juan made a brief appearance on the first episode of ''Mind of Mencia''. The character Silky Johnson (a player hater: an individual in stereotypical pimp attire known for hurling verbal insults) from ''Chapelle's Show'' is based largely on Juan. In 2007, Juan was honored with his own colorway of the McNally skateboard shoe by Emerica.

Juan has also appeared as a guest on Manswers

Discography

Albums

2006: ''Green is for the Money, Gold is for the Honeys Vol. 1'' (Avatar Records)

Guest appearances

Year	Song	Artist	Album
	"Pimpin' Ain't Easy"
	"A Word From ... Da Bishop Don "Magic" Juan"		align="center"
"It' Ain't Easy"
	"Boss Playa"
	"A.D.I.D.A.C."
	"Pimp On"		align="center"
"Church"
"Nuthin' Without Me"
	"Intro (Blessin')"
	"Ballin On The West Side"
	"A Pimp’s Christmas Song"

References

External links

Official Website

[ Allmusic review of ''Green is for the Money, Gold is for the Honeys Vol. 1'']

The Bishop articles on the Emerica site

Rare footage of Pastor Don Magic Juan, founder of Chicago's Magic World Christian Church

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh1RXgApq9E2012987

Category:American pimps and madams Category:Living people Category:People from Chicago, Illinois

Coordinates	28°36′36″N77°13′48″N
Name	Kirk Degiorgio
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Kirk Degiorgio
Alias	As One
Origin	Stepney, London
Genre	Electronic music, Broken beat Ambient techno
Occupation	Producer, DJ
Years active	Early 1990s to present
Label	A.R.T., Op-Art, B12, R&S;, New Electronica
Website	http://www.kirkdegiorgio.com/
Past members	}}

Kirk Degiorgio, better known as As One, is a British techno producer and DJ. Born in the late 60s in Stepney, east London, and raised in Suffolk, he started producing music in the early 90s. He founded the labels A.R.T. Records and Op-Art Records and releases on them as well as B12 Records, R&S; Records, New Electronica, and others. His style is a mixture of Detroit-style techno, mixed with funk, soul and jazz fusion.

Album discography

As ''As One''

''Reflections'' (1994)

''Celestial Soul'' (1995)

''The Art of Prophecy'' (1997)

''Planetary Folklore'' (1997)

''21st Century Soul'' (2001)

''Out of the Darkness'' (2004)

''Elegant Systems'' (2005)

''Planetary Folklore 2'' (2006)

As ''Kirk Degiorgio''

''Check One'' (1996)

''Synthesis'' (1998)

''Two Worlds'' (2001)

Aliases

As One

Blue Binary

Elegy

Esoterik

Family Values

Future/Past

Offworld

The Off World Ensemble

Bands

Super-A-Loof (with Jamie Odell)

Critical Phase (with Dan Keeling)

The Beauty Room (with Jinadu)

References

External links

Kirk Degiorgio RBMA video lecture session Pt.1

Kirk Degiorgio RBMA video lecture session Pt.2

Kirk Degiorgio / As One on discogs.com

RBMA Radio On Demand - Sound Obsession - Volume 15 - Electro Special Pt 1 - Kirk Degiorgio (The Beauty Room, As One)

RBMA Radio On Demand - Sound Obsession - Volume 14 - Stevie Wonder Special Pt.2 - Kirk Degiorgio (The Beauty Room, As One)

RBMA Radio On Demand - Sound Obsession - Volume 12 - Summer of '67 - Kirk Degiorgio (The Beauty Room, As One)

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PHASE 2 (aka Lonny Wood) is one of the most influential and well known New York City graffiti artists. Mostly active in the 1970s, Phase 2 is generally credited with originating the "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing, also known as "softies". He was also influential in the early hip-hop scene.

Graffiti career

Phase 2 is from the Bronx, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School along with a number of other early graffiti artists. Many famous graffiti writers of the early 1970s would meet at a doughnut shop across from the school called the Coffee Shop before heading down to the subway station at 149th Street and Grand Concourse to watch tagged trains on the IRT line pass by. Phase 2 was mentored in graffiti by his friend and neighbor Thomas Lee aka Lee 163d!, one of the pioneers of graf writing in the Bronx.

He began writing in late 1971 under the name Phase 2, a moniker which had a rather mundane provenance. As Phase 2 would later recall, "the previous year we'd given this party. We were getting ready to give another one and I said, 'We'll call this one Phase Two.' I don't know why, but I was stuck on the name. It had meaning for me. I started writing 'Phase 2.'"

Part of the appeal of graffiti writing for Phase 2 was that it allowed him to get his "name" known yet remain anonymous. He noted later that tagging provided disadvantaged urban teens "the only significant vehicle to represent their 'existence.'"

It was in late 1972 that Phase 2 first used an early version of the "bubble letter" or "softie", a style of graffiti writing which would become extremely influential and is considered a "giant leap" in the art form. The puffed-out, marshmallow-like letters drawn by Phase 2 were soon copied by other artists who added their own variations. Phase himself quickly embellished on his original form, creating and naming dozens of varieties of softies such as "phasemagorical phantastic" (bubble letters with stars), "bubble cloud", and "bubble drip." He is also credited with pioneering the use of arrows in graf writing around this same time. Hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang has noted that Phase 2's canvasses from 1973 have "been widely recognized as defining the early genre."

Over time Phase's work become more and more complex, moving far away from the simple tags of the early 70s to "hieroglyphical calligraphic abstraction." Chang points out that much of Phase's work involved "deconstructing the letter", transforming characters in the alphabet "into hard lines, third eyes, horns, drills, spikes, Egyptian pharaohs and dogs, pure geometrics." Another New York graffiti artist, Vulcan, remarked that "one of the things about Phase is that he was the only person at the time whose name could roll by ten times and each piece was different. That's what you noticed about his [work]."

In 1974 Phase 2 joined the newly created United Graffiti Artists, a professional graffiti collective which began to attract media attention. He was featured in an important essay on graffiti art by Richard Goldstein which appeared in ''New York'' magazine and inspired a new generation of graffiti artists.

In the 1980s, Phase 2 began publishing ''International Graffiti Times'', the first zine about graffiti writing.

Influence in hip-hop

Unlike some other pioneers of New York City graffiti, Phase 2 had a prominent role in the South Bronx hip-hop scene in the early 1980s. He also continues to be referenced in hip-hop songs.

Phase participated in the legendary hip-hop shows organized by Kool Lady Blue during the summer of 1982 at the Roxy nightclub in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. These shows brought together the top DJ's, MC's, breakers, and graffiti artists from the South Bronx and introduced hip-hop music and culture to the downtown punk and new wave scenes. Phase 2 designed the flyers for these events and often did graffiti pieces live on stage. He was also part of the first "international" hip-hop tour when stars from the Roxy performances toured in England and France in November of that year.

Phase 2 was one of the few graffiti artists to be involved in the musical side of hip-hop culture as well. He had a background as a DJ in the very early days of hip-hop, though he never made a name for himself in that role. In 1982, as part of his involvement with the Roxy scene, Phase released two rap singles. "Beach Boy" was a collaboration with Barry Michael Cooper, who would later co-write the script for New Jack City. "The Roxy" featured the Bill Laswell-led group Material and Grandmixer D.ST, though Phase 2 would later remark that he was disappointed in the song and felt that it "wasn't done properly."

Phase was also an early b-boy and claims that his dance crew pioneered the uprock (or "battle rock") style of dance despite claims that it originated in Brooklyn. He was thus actively involved in all of the traditional "four elements" of hip-hop culture.

Though he did not have a role in the production, Phase 2 did apparently influence the classic early hip-hop movie ''Wild Style''. In the DVD commentary for the film, director Charlie Ahearn explained that, when thinking about the key character named "Phade", he had Phase 2 in mind (either to actually play the part or simply as a model) because Phase was a legendary graffiti writer from the past who was also involved in the hip-hop scene, as was the character of Phade. The role would ultimately be played by Fab 5 Freddy, himself a graffiti artist who along with Ahearn was the major creative force behind ''Wild Style''. Phase 2 did take on an official role in another early hip-hop film when he worked as a graffiti consultant on the 1984 movie ''Beat Street''.

In his 1995 song "Out for Fame" - an homage to graffiti artists and culture - KRS-One implores his audience "in the name of Phase 2" and fellow Bronx graffiti legend Stay High to "grab your cans and hit the streets." Several years later Mos Def mentioned Phase 2 on his widely respected debut album ''Black on Both Sides'', specifically on the track "Hip Hop", in which he noted that hip-hop itself was "all city like Phase 2" - presumably a reference to the ubiquity of Phase 2's graffiti pieces on trains throughout the city during the early 1970s. In 1996, he appeared in the song ''I Messaggeri Pt.I'' contained in italian artist Neffa's album ''I Messaggeri della Dopa''.

References

Works cited

George, Nelson

Chang, Jeff (2005). ''Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation''. Picador. ISBN 0312425791.

External links

Adam Mansbach interview with PHASE 2

"Writer of the Storm", Raw Vision interview with PHASE 2

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Anthony "Shake" Shakir, who also uses the aliases Sequence 10 and Da Sampla, is an American techno producer, best known for his contributions to Detroit techno.

Shakir began producing in 1981, and worked with Detroit musicians such as Derrick May and Carl Craig for many of their early Metroplex releases. Shakir appeared under the name Sequence 10 on the Virgin Records compilation ''Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit''.

While many of his peers on the Detroit scene have worked to increase their profile in Europe, Shakir never gravitated toward this scene, working more closely with the second wave of Detroit techno musicians such as Mike Banks and Claude Young. He formed the labels Frictional in 1995 and Puzzlebox in 1996, the latter with Keith Tucker.

Among Shakir's credits are remixes for Telex and Inner City, as well as co-production of the Urban Tribe's 1998 album for Mo Wax, ''The Collapse of Modern Culture''.

References

External links

discography at Discogs

Anthony 'Shake' Shakir: Mr. Gone Is Back Again Interview at Resident Advisor

Detroit History: Anthony Shake Shakir A brief history of Anthony Shake Shakir at Detroit Techno Militia

Category:Techno musicians Category:Musicians from Michigan Category:Living people

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