""The pulse of New York has always carried with me," DJ and Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson tells while sitting beside John Barclay - owner of the recently closed Bed Stuy club, and nearby techno staple, Bossa Nova Civic Club."
""[Paragon] is the closest club that I've experienced in New York that gave me that [same] impression [as my early days in music] ... and for it to [have] a young crowd: that's so important," Saunderson says. "It sets the tone for the future and helps the musical movement. It shows what [techno] really can and should be.""
""I was just blown away - the speakers, the sound system, the people dancing," he recalls."
"He describes Atkins's and May's early music as inspired by "Kraftwerk, Parliament Funkadelic," made with a "future mentality.""
Kevin Saunderson and John Barclay are partnering to reopen Paragon after its abrupt April closure, working amid repairs in the club basement. Paragon provided a New York club experience Saunderson associates with his early musical impressions and a young crowd that he views as vital to techno's future. Saunderson grew up in Flatbush, moved to Detroit at age ten, and spent summers back in New York where clubs like The Paradise Garage introduced him to disco's speakers, sound systems, and dancing. Saunderson contrasts the bouncing New York sound with Detroit minimalism from Juan Atkins and Derrick May, influenced by Kraftwerk and Parliament Funkadelic and made with a future mentality.
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