Model 500 – Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)

Label: Metroplex – M-002
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Techno
Condition: Near Mint

Detroit techno progenitor Model 500 (Juan Atkins) returns with the reissued Night Drive (Thru-Babylon), a seminal 12" that pulses with the raw, crystalline futurism of early Metroplex sound. 

The title track, “Night Drive (Thru-Babylon),” rolls forward with sleek synth lines and mechanised rhythm that evoke nocturnal highways and urban solitude. The flip-side’s “Time Space Transmat” mirrors its counterpart – a more instrumental introspection of the same theme that cleverly deepens the atmosphere. 

Rounding out the set, “No UFO’s (D-Mix)” extends into darker, dub-inflected dimensions, stretching the EP’s emotional range and grounding it in techno’s subterranean echo-chamber.

A1. Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)
A2. Time Space Transmat
B. No UFO’s (D-Mix)