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DOING TIME w/ Hampus Gunnarsson

Veteran NTS host Hampus brings you Doing Time: a genre-agnostic monthly trip through quality records from around the world’s past and present, featuring regular appearances from musical friends and family.

NTS Guide To: PPU 1979-1989

D.C. reissue and private press label People's Potential Unlimited specialise in preserving the weirdest and rarest of boogie, funk, and more from the 70s and 80s - plus a new generation of artists drawing from the lo-fi DIY sounds of the cosmic boogie past. This special includes tracks from 1979-1989 by Glass Pyramid, Flikk, L.S. Movement Band & many more.

Model 500

Model 500

Model 500 has been played over 220 times on NTS, first on 1 November 2012. Model 500's music has been featured on 194 episodes.

Model 500 and Model 600 are aliases of Juan Atkins.

After releasing several Cybotron records, 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 rereleased in Europe, influencing another generation of producers.

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Model 500

Model 500 has been played over 220 times on NTS, first on 1 November 2012. Model 500's music has been featured on 194 episodes.

Model 500 and Model 600 are aliases of Juan Atkins.

After releasing several Cybotron records, 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 rereleased in Europe, influencing another generation of producers.

Original source: Last.fm

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Most played tracks

No UFO's (Vocal)

Model 500

Metroplex•1985

Pick Up The Flow

Model 500

Metroplex•1993

The Passage

Model 500

Network Records•1992

I Wanna Be There

Model 500

R & S Records•1994

Starlight

Model 500

Metroplex•1995

Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)

Model 500

Metroplex•1985

Infoworld

Model 500

Transmat•1990

The Chase (Smooth Mix)

Model 500

Metroplex•1989

Control

Model 500

R & S Records•2012

I.D.L.E.

Model 500

Tresor, Carhartt WIP•2024

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