MODEL 500 Vinyl & CDs

Review: Hard to believe this package, recorded in Berlin by techno originator Juan Atkins, is 30 years old - it still sounds like it's from 300 years in the future. Remastered here for a reissue on Atkins' own Metroplex label, it offers up three versions of the title track that vary from from luxuriously lively space jazz to speedy but elegant techno and shimmering, phasing, metallic percussion. Two more originals, 'Neptune' and 'I Wanna Be There', complete the set, and pressed across two slices of vinyl, this is prime fare for anyone who loves the more experimental end of Detroit techno.