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John Darnielle represents for Detroit techno. →
Commenting on Roland and Yamaha’s dismissal of techno legend Juan Atkins for sponsorship — despite having “Detroit Techno” factory settings on their machines! — the Mountain Goat barks, “Without guys like Juan Atkins figuring out how to work your machines and making great sounds with them, they’d be useless crates. You don’t actually think people made tracks like this just by reading your impenetrable manuals, right?”Page 1 of 1