# Model 500 — No UFO's

Model 500’s No UFO's (1985) appears on 4 of our lists — Detroit Techno, The Eighties, The Waxonia Desk — Detroit Techno, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, highest at No. 2 in Detroit Techno. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1985
- **Label:** Metroplex
- **On:** Detroit Techno, The Eighties, The Waxonia Desk — Detroit Techno, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Model 500](https://waxonia.com/artist/model-500/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/model-500--no-ufos/

## What 4 lists say

### No. 2 in [Detroit Techno](https://waxonia.com/genre/detroit-techno/)

Juan Atkins draws the map. Cold electro chassis, science-fiction distance, and the first record that is unambiguously techno rather than something approaching it.

### Picked by [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/)

Juan Atkins pressed it himself on his own label, in a city whose record industry had left for Los Angeles fifteen years earlier. Techno starts as a self-released twelve-inch, which is a fact about Detroit as much as about the music.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Detroit Techno](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-detroit-techno/)

The map, drawn before anyone had agreed there was territory. Cold electro chassis and science-fiction distance, and the first record that is unambiguously techno rather than something approaching it.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)

The first record that is unambiguously techno rather than something approaching it. Cold, distant, and completely certain of itself.

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