Recording
No UFO's
Model 500
Independently chosen for4 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1985
- Label
- Metroplex
- On
- Detroit Techno, The Eighties, The Waxonia Desk — Detroit Techno, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 2 in 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
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
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
The first record that is unambiguously techno rather than something approaching it. Cold, distant, and completely certain of itself.