Infiniti - Skynet
Label: Tresor – TRESOR 105
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", Album, Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: Nov 30, 2018 / Nov 27, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Minimal, IDM
Juan Atkins’ Infiniti project combines raw tactility and puristic elegance on Skynet — slinking grooves masking chaotic frequencies and roughly-hewn structure in a record that exposes the life and emotion in machines with the authority of one of Detroit’s founding visionaries. Alongside fellow Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, who appears on several tracks, Atkins outputs a biomorphic atmosphere of industrial soul that remains as vital and as singular today as it did on first release. The ongoing importance of this album to both techno and to Tresor is indisputable — and now back on wax for 2026.
Skyway and Walking On Water open the A-side with the sleek, machine-driven elegance that defines Atkins’ Infiniti aesthetic before Thought Process, Electric Circus and Postcard From The Future push the record into more complex and emotionally charged territory. The ten-minute Body Oil dominates the C-side with the kind of extended, immersive groove that only comes from a producer who has spent decades understanding exactly how rhythm and texture interact at depth. Coffeeshop Interlude and Coffeeshop Connection bring a rare warmth and intimacy before Subterrainea closes the record in the subterranean depths where Atkins has always felt most at home. Essential.
