Juan Atkins, the Detroit producer and DJ widely regarded as a techno pioneer, has died at 64, his management company confirmed. He was found unresponsive in his Mexico City hotel room before a scheduled performance on October 31 and later pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of death has not been confirmed. A founding member of the Belleville Three, Atkins helped shape Detroit techno through projects including Cybotron and Model 500. His 1988 track “Techno Music” helped give the genre its name.
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