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Most albums of Early Detroit Techno are now unavailable ... however, when we last looked, some albums from the "Belleville Three" were still listed at Amazon.com - so get them while you can if you want a piece of Techno History:

  • Derreck May - Biography (aka: Rhythim Is Rhythim, Inner City)
  • Juan Atkins - Biography (aka: Cybotron, Model 500, Infiniti)
  • Kevin Saunderson - Biography (aka: Inner City, Tronik House, Reese, E-Dancer, Essaray)
  • Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes - Biography

(OK, that makes four ... but Eddie is sometimes included in this idealistic "group")

We have permission to reprint the album covers here, but cannot include track samples. Both Amazon and CDNow have track samples that you can listen to.

Innovator by Derrick May
Innovator
Derreck May
1997
Double CD

Includes early tracks:
"Nude Photo"
"It Is What It Is"
Track Samples at:
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Birth of Technosoul
Eddie Fowlkes
Oct 1993
Includes:
"My Soul"
"Computee"
"Move Me"
Track Samples at:
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(sorry - no album pic available)

Eddie, sometimes looked at as the fourth in the Belleville Three, said "We were just like kids following the Pied Piper [Juan Atkins]"
Faces & Phases
Kevin Saunderson
Jan 1998
Double CD

aka "The Kevin Saunderson Collection" a limited edition with 22 remixed CLASSICS
Track Samples at:
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Faces & Phases by Kevin Saunderson
Magic Tracks by Juan Atkins

Magic Tracks
Juan Atkins
Nov 1993

aka "Deep Detroit Volume Two"

Track Samples at:
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Wax Trax MasterMix #1
Juan Atkins
1998
His first mix CD traces the evolution of techno includes:
"No UFOs"
"Nude Photo"
Track Samples at:
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WaxTrax MasterMix by Juan Atkins
Clear by Cybotron
Clear
Cybotron
Dec 1990 (1983)
Juan Atkins, Rick Davis originally released as "Enter" includes:
"Clear"
"Cosmic Cars"
"Enter"
Track Samples at:
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Early Influence

Autobahn
Kraftwerk
1974
Track Listing only:
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Start in Germany

Full Circle

Tresor II: Berlin-Detroit Techno Alliance
Various Artists
May 1993
Track Samples at:
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 Back to Germany

Tresor II: Berlin-Detroit Techno Alliance

 

  
     
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