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Fri 10 Oct 2008Techno: the second coming
Juan Atkins - the man credited with inventing techno music in the 1980s - is coming to Dublin next weekend. He talks to Richard Brophy.
ROCK music used to have a monopoly on heritage acts, but electronic music, which by definition fixates on the future, is also re-discovering its past. Kraftwerk have performed three times in Ireland in the past four years, Sheffield's synth pop bands The Human League, ABC and Heaven 17 are coming to town, and now Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins, aka Model 500, is headlining the DEAF festival in Dublin.
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